Word: newhaven
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...Newhaven Was Former Place of Rest...
...investigations were carried out on the East coast of North America by three parties. The most northerly site explored is Cambridge, an amorphous section of the large city of Greater Dublin; Newhaven lies some distance to the South in a slightly less intolerable climate, while the small settlement of Princeton, (which at first seemed to provide the most promising material but subsequently proved of little interest), is the most southerly point reached by the expedition. Apparently this last site, planned on most attractive lines, was not permanently inhabited by scholars, but was used as a place of rest. There...
...disposal of the Columba myth illustrates admirably the methods of the expert archaeologists and the ineluctable force of their deductions. They examined in detail the large collegiate buildings (probably monastic) of Newhaven and Cambridge and compared them with similar institutions in or near Europe. It had been hitherto assumed that this phase of American architecture was a product of the Catholic revival of the twentieth century, but such hasty conclusions must now be discarded, for the magnificent Gothic ruins at Newhaven indubitably attest the existence of a flourishing scholastic culture as early as the first years of the fifteenth century...
...exactly reversed in later American architecture. No man in his right senses could affirm that an Americanising architect allowed the interior measurements of the rooms to show such discrepancies, and the buttresses and walls to reduce the windows to such inadequate dimensions. And so the mediaeval guildsmen of Newhaven will henceforward take their place in history as true pioneers, who built rather by inspiration than by contract; and their work will be another proof of the triumph of spirit over matter, worthy to rank with Egyptian Karnak and our own Gimp. For five centuries countless generations of poor scholars wore...
...period immediately preceding the final catastrophe, and it should furnish fascinating reading not only for the social scientist but also for students of folklore and primitive religion. The survival of totemism as late as the twentieth century has often been disputed, but is now established as a historical fact. Newhaven and Princeton were the homes of the Bulldog and Tiger totems respectively, and these wild bands fought incessantly over the ground that had been formerly consecrated to learning. Evidence of totems at Cambridge is lacking;--there is frequent mention of a Crimson College, but this refers to a Catholic school...