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Last week, one of these editors compiled a supplement called Shells?a critique of college architecture in the U. S. Posing as a "Loafer," he pondered the causes and meanings behind university structures. "The finished shell," said he, "represents the ideals of the college, the type of its education, . . . imagination, independence, . . . enslavement to shadows, to predetermined notions, petrifactions, parchment, self-adulation, pretense and the higher bunk...
...This Loafer obtained views of Yale's famed Harkness Quadrangle, quoted Prof. William Lyon Phelps there-anent: " 'My eyes filled with tears. . . . The features of the skyline change as rapidly and as tenderly as the face of a breathing alma mater, beholding her children. . . . The buildings stand in the midst of traffic, a monument to the life of the spirit?they are as accessible...
...Added Loafer: "Entering, awed, . . . the bum was greeted by the strains, from a dormitory window, of Red Hot Mama. Doorsteps are found artificially worn down as if with the tread of the countless, and the tile of the roof has been especially prepared to gather dust and moss as rapidly as possible, to simulate the venerable. To this university, then, goes the prestige of having artfully intimated Oxford and Cambridge without copying directly. . . . Good old tears, good old spires, good old doorsteps (hastened up a bit), good old Oxford, good old quaint antique, old alma mater...
...next page was devoted to The Art of Technology: Ossified at Birth. Loafer pointed to the buildings of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which catalogs call: "classical Roman laid out in the French manner." Loafer called it: "A factory attempting the Roman in a derby hat . A picket-fence palace. A hairless, scrubbed and tasteless eunuch playing dominoes. . . . The hokum of the 'pseudo classic...
...space for $10,000,000, of which the brochure of Pittsburgh's skyscraper-to-be said: "To plant the spirit of achievement, ... by a great high building ... to interpret the spirit of Pittsburgh ... to build a memorial to the achievers of Pittsburgh" (TIME, Nov. 17). Loafer: "The soul in cubic feet. Achievement by tonnage. Unquestioning faith in millionaires and land-values. Gothic doodads for moments of sentiment...