Word: gothicisms
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...reach superior councils, plans are under way at the Law School, where the demand is most urgent, for Union Cooperation to provide temporary dining quarters. Entirely a Law School enterprise this student-managed restaurant would be a second alternative should the University not favor demands to use the Gothic structure. Opportunity for students to earn board by waiting and executive work would overcome a serious shortcoming of the higher educational schools, it was emphasized...
...grey building", University Hall, was called "very fine" by Professor Gropius. He also liked the contrast afforded by the thick pillars and slim tower of Memorial Church, which he confused with Memorial Hall, "the gothic affair." He was delighted with the "characteristic old American style" of the Yard buildings, and of houses in Concord, which he said were very gay because of their white painted walls...
...more deserving of further attention, and few men would begrudge the extra hours spent in handling this as a full-year course. Numberless small but interesting facts could be added to the skeleton which is now presented. Some more fundamental sections of art history, notably German and Spanish Gothic architecture, medieval stained glass, and American colonial architecture now omitted entirely, could also be studied profitably...
...fossiliferous monstrosity was uncovered by a recent Harvard expedition in the "red-beds" of Northwest Texas. On inspection, one must try to visualize a gargantuan turtle with a vertical and flattened rather than a horizontal and curved shell. A series of long bony vertebrae soar skyward in transcending gothic splendor...
...among the finest examples of that tender, flowing, calligraphic style that flourished in Germany from about 1380 to 1450, a style which is little known in America, and is not at all represented by original works in any of the local museums." Money for the purchase of the Gothic Madonna was donated by a group of friends of the Germanic Museum...