Word: gothicisms
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...were not for the fact that, as the H.A.A. News announced, some one will be fatally injured in one of these goal post jamborees, the whole matter would hardly deserve consideration. Police defense and structural reinforcement of the posts only serve as a challenge to the gothic sensibilities of the besiegers. Why not achieve our object most sublime by coating the posts with sticky flypaper, or more simply by applying a layer of very fresh and adhesive paint immediately before the game? Then, verily, by their coats ye would know them...
...First Legion (by Emmet Lavery; Bert Lytell and Phil Green, producers). The scene is a House of the Society of Jesus, the bare cubicles of the Fathers, the Gothic arches and mullioned windows of the Community Room. The characters, like those in prison and wartime plays, are all male...
...wooded, 900-acre campus. One day last week it suddenly came alive with young women in sports clothes hurrying along neat walks with bridge lamps, books, trash baskets, suitcases. Three hundred and seventy of them were freshmen. After supper they and 854 upperclassmen trooped into a red-roofed, Collegiate-Gothic chapel. There President Henry Noble MacCracken, his full, pink face looking some-what careworn, droned a mild message of greeting to the effect that while three-score years and ten is a respectable age for a human, it is mere childhood for an up & coming institution like Vassar...
...acquired a majestic new administration building named Hetty Green Hall, a zoology laboratory, another co-operative dormitory and the beginnings of a physics & chemistry building which will be completed next autumn. All these are part of President Ellen Fitz Pendleton's longtime campaign to construct a handsome, Collegiate-Gothic "New Wellesley" out of the ashes of 1914. Now 70 and beginning her 23rd year as president, shy, deliberate, precise "Pres-Penn" intends to see the program through. She wants three more residence halls, an infirmary and additions to art building, gymnasium and library. No Wellesley woman doubts that...
Berkeley College, latest addition to the Yale Gothic collection, has been dubbed "The Great White Way" by Elf's men. For a short time it was called "Times Square" because of its network of tunnels. But this was changed when darkness fell upon the buildings. Now a battery of floodlights, augmented by several brilliant advertising signs from local emporiums, have occasioned the rechristening...