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...Shilling Shockers of the Gothic School", a thesis written by William Why'te Watt '32, of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, will be published according to the decision of the Committee of the Publication of Honors Thesis in English. Watt's thesis will be the only one printed this year...
With the announcement that Memorial Hall is at last to be fireproofed and used as a storage vault for college records there arises a vague satisfaction that at last some definite use has been found for the old gothic pile. For years, Memorial Hall has stood empty and scorned, with only the occasional tramping of feet directed toward examination desks and convention chairs to remind the dusky shades of halcyon days when windows were bright and unpainted, and biscuits whistled through the air of the popular college beanery...
...Briton Hadden Memorial had little ground to work on but they stretched that little far to house the "Oldest College Daily" (founded 1878). Plunked down where it belongs, on a corner central to Yale's ramified, citified campus, the building rises three neat stories in a Gothic style. Downstairs is a spacious heelers' room papered in old issues of the News, Running around the four walls of this room is a wide work-desk of oak, thick enough to withstand the initial-carving of generations of heelers. Downstairs also are business offices. On staggered levels off the stairs...
Power-House & Railman. Besides the 14th Century Gothic cathedral?a close copy of Canterbury?Mount Saint Alban plans call for a chapter house, administration building, synod hall, guest house, residences for canons and minor canons There are now schools for girls and boys, a college of preachers, the Bishop's house and garden. All of the 67½-acre wooded hill is to be enclosed by a wall with gates dedicated to the twelve Apostles. Ultimately it will represent perhaps $40,000,000 worth of pious enterprise?what Bishop Freeman calls a "powerhouse of religious energy." Of the more than...
Dean Bratenahl lives near the Cathedral, spends most of his time there. His wife is the Cathedral's landscape architect. On the slope of Mount Saint Alban to the south of the Cathedral is the Bishop's Garden, open to the public. Here are Gothic and Romanesque sculptures, collected with the aid of George Grey Barnard. Nearby are box bushes, ancient and costly, brought from Virginia. Mrs. Bratenahl plans the planting, often gets donations from ladies who are pleased with her suggestions: such as that a $5 gift be spent for moss at the base of an old cross...