Word: petrifact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the Yard is only another symptom of over-expansion: might it not be that the University has become the Cosmopolis of Spengler, a huge petrifact, whose inhabitants view it exclusively as the instrument of their individual advancement or pleasure? In that event, it would be useless to expect anyone to concern himself with a matter so marginal as the beauty of the institution itself. John Bovey...
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