Word: gothicisms
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Today, and for many a day to come, the name of Edward Harkness stands for a system of teaching (tutorial) and a type of architecture (collegiate Gothic) that have made their mark on the face of U. S. education. Not everyone is pleased with Mr. Harkness' mark. Few years ago rebellious Yale undergraduates published an irreverent magazine called The Harkness Hoot, sneered at telephone booths in Yale's new Gothic buildings that looked like "confessionals." But Edward Harkness had faith in his own hunches, in the institutions to which he gave his money...
...been invented if not for the students. The faculty? Of course the faculty had to deal out grades; and grades were based on examinations. Vag wistfully remembered how he got an E for an upset stomach and an A for his flexible wrist. Shuddering, he pictured the dim Victorian Gothic church in which he had squatted tensely over his bluebook, too paralyzed to think, trusting implicitly his flying hand to remember what had evaporated within his brain. No, Vag decided energetically, if examinations and grades are bedfellows, let us chuck them both...
...glade poetry with just the right shade of Teutonic Weltschmerz, his solemn evocation of all the Nibelungenlied's nature-nourished gnomes and demigods. When Melchior sings, Wagnerites forget the Metropolitan's tattered backdrops and seem to see the green Rhine and the doom-cragged, primeval mountains of Gothic legend...
Campus. Ohio State's nondescript buildings, sprawling around a horseshoe-shaped campus, are barren of ivy and Gothic furbelows. But its undergraduates have some traditions, some fun. Ohio State's Orton Hall sounds the Westminster chimes each quarter-hour. Ohioans cheer lustily for their championship football, basketball, swimming teams. Their 60 fraternities, 20 sororities (enrolling a third of the student body, who can live in them for $5 a month more than in a rooming house) give frequent dances. Each after noon undergraduates gather in Hennick's, across High Street, for sodas and 3.2 beer. Other customs...
Produced by Pandro S. Berman (Gunga Din, Michael Strogoff), the picture has big milling mobs, the Cathedral of Notre Dame (with close-ups of Gothic sculpture), some of the year's choicest bits of sadism (a flogging, a racking, an unsuccessful hanging), a pitched battle on the cathedral steps, and darkly witching Maureen O'Hara, last seen in a den of cut throats in Jamaica Inn, here seen in a den of cutthroats in medieval Paris...