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...Breek '84, defeated Fish (H.C.) 17-14, 17-14, 12-15, 15-12; Tuttlo (H. C.) defeated J. B. Wlaker '33, 15-11, 15-14, 8-15, 13-15, 15-13; Devens (H. C.) defeated J. W. Appel '32, 15-10, 9-15, 15-10, 15-11; Pierson (H.C.) defeated Edward Orlandini...
...Hoot. These young posts hover over Yale's precious architecture, thumb their noses at its partially Gothic elegance, refuse to be in any way cowed by the Harkness millions, and take an unholy delight in the inconsistencies they see taking shape around them--particularly in the Gothic exterior of Pierson-Davenport College and its Georgian inner court. They helpfully offer as their own proposed Yale building a drawing of a very prettily designed small church of American colonial architecture topped with a large, ornate Gothic tower, as if the Woolworth Building had ambled down Broadway and climbed...
...worth of steel girders, tan Gothic stonework* and shiny plumbing given by Edward Stephen Harkness to Yale as an eleven college "house plan" development (TIME, Jan. 20, 1930, March 9, 1931), names out of Yale's past will be given. Already named are Pierson, John Davenport, Branford, Saybrook and Berkeley Colleges. Three new names were added last week...
...Save for John Davenport and Pierson, recently completed, which are red brick Georgian. To match nearby buildings Davenport has a novel Gothic facade. Scornful of Yale's architecture, the perky Harkness Hoot this month lists these styles, all to be found on the campus: Nondescript-General Grant, American Colonial-Georgian, French Renaissance Classic, Moorish, Lombard-Romanesque, Venetian, Greek Temple, Gothic...
...names of five other units, which had been announced previously, are Pierson, Davenport, Saybrook, and Berkeley. Three more units remain to be named, making eleven in all. Pierson and Davenport, the first of the units to be completed, have been opened this year, as was the case with Lowell and Dunster at Harvard a year ago. Edward Stephen Harkness, Yale '97, is the donor of the funds for the buildings...