Word: gothicisms
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Five years later Fosdick preached his first sermon in the new Riverside Church. In form it was an elaborate Neo-Gothic cathedral, niched with statues of Darwin, Einstein, Emerson, Buddha, Confucius. It cost some $4,000,000 (largely donated by the Rockefellers). Today Dr. Fosdick preaches from his marble pulpit on Sunday mornings, before a microphone in his 18th-floor tower study on Sunday afternoons. His voice is carried by national hookup to one of the nation's largest radio congregations. He preaches the same kind of rationalistic, enthusiastic sermons that he has occasionally preached in the chapels near...
...spring training period in the ivy-covered Yale indoor cage is enough to make any College Flatbush follower reach for his smelling salts. Too long have the Durocher Dandies been subjected to a nation's ridicule; to foist upon this group of hale, uninhibited American youth the stigma of Gothic Bulldog culture is as dangerous a proposition as bringing Bill Terry unarmed into Ebbets Field...
...active military service. At the same time, Yale announced that it had leased half its dormitories and a third of its classrooms to the Army Air Forces. After the Christmas recess, some 2,600 officers and men will crowd undergraduates out of many of the university's neo-Gothic houses. The Army will be packed double in the rooms of evacuated students, most of whom will squeeze in with classmates...
...October of 1870 the Reverend Phillips Brooks laid the cornerstone of this most ambitious building ever attempted by the University. It was to be an immense Victorian Gothic pile, erected as memorial to "those who fought and died to preserve the Union." "The Delta," a triangular shaped piece of land which served as training grounds for the student regiments during the war, was selected as a fitting site. Four years later, amid a festive gathering of Harvard's sons the splendid dedication service took place. Oliver Wendell Holmes was there. He had written a stirring dedication hymn for the occasion...
...Hall is now a relic neither loved nor hated by the students. Its fantastic Gothic architecture, combining a red and blue slate roof with a monstrous green clock tower, no longer appeals to the aesthetic taste of the twentieth century. To the unsuspecting freshman it looms up on his first day as an artistic nightmare. Since the commons was discontinued in 1924, the tremendous nave is used only for registration, examinations, and Commencement. At these times the few remaining busts may be seen unreverently adorned with hats of modern style. Many debate the feasibility of junking the collossal structure. Awaiting...