Word: gothicized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year the city of Copenhagen paid a graceful compliment to the Gothic intellect by holding a memorial exhibit of reliques, papers, letters, reminiscent of the life of Wolfgang Goethe. To reciprocate, the Prussian State Library recently opened a similar exhibit for a Scandinavian genius, Hans Christian Andersen. First editions of his books, illustrations for his earliest fairy tales, letters from Hugo, Heine, Balzac, Lamartine, De Vigny, the Grimm brothers and the Grand Duke of Weimar, ladies' favors, gentlemen's favors, and the souvenirs of princes, are shown there, and the German schoolchildren who went to gaze...
...dawns upon a lonely Yard. For John has gone a-calling. Where tall and Gothic towers rise collegiate toward the skies John will be found in sportive frolic with a funny old striped beast. Both John and the Tiger are fond of the game. Sometimes one has shown himself more apt, sometimes the other. But quite aside from the zest of battle, the pleasure of the meeting has perpetuated the annual interchange of courtesies through all these years. And so of course the day dawns upon a lonely Yard. For John has gone a-calling...
Germany. Nineteen pictures very varied, from 19th Century art plainly labeled "Made in Germany for Conservatives" to "Afternoon Tea" by Ernst Kirchner, wherein the tea table cants like a broken wing and the arches of the chairs leer with grotesque Gothic humor...
...American people. The effect is far reaching and even the standards of national thought, culture, and life itself are suffering a profound erosion. Two and a half billions of dollars in the last decade have been donated the the higher institutes of learning and imposing plants and Gothic quadrangles have sprung up on every hand. Only the reward of the vital instructor remains practically unchanged and the average full professor in American colleges is receiving the munificent salary of $3392 per annum. "Verily the mountain hath labored and brought forth a mouse...
...Planning Board. Not the least noteworthy of their achievements is the harmony of architectural design effected between the new buildings and the finest examples of the old. The errors of Matthews, Weld and Grays are not being repeated. And future generations will thank God that no neo-Gothic monstrosities have been introduced to mar the simple beauty of the colonial type. The expansion of Harvard's plant and equipment is rapidly becoming an accomplished fact, keeping pace with the need for enlarged facilities...