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Yale's seven million dollar library may have to be lighted and aired artificially, the clock may be obscured by a dust-collecting rood screen, and massive pillars may occupy most of the floor space, but that it "inculcates the lie in the young student" or makes it impossible for him "ever to learn a true thing in any institution such as this" are declarations which show more naive fancy than common sense. These are only a few of the bitter condemnations of the Yale library's architecture made in the current issue of the "Nation...
...hall, which is a precise copy of a nave with five bays. Observe the massive and unnecessary piers, the inconvenient but orthodox side aisles, the lofty transepts bristling with sanctity above and serial catalogues below. Advance to the high altar-a $25,000 book delivery desk; overhead, admire the rood screen, of utmost complexity and facility at catching dust, which has been cleverly placed to hide the important library clock from view. See the space where the great apse painting is to go. (At the present time the painting has not yet been transferred from preliminary drawings, but the work...
Mannsfeld's Crew--Stroke, Mannsfeld: 7, W. L. Thompson, Jr. '32; 6, Hallowell; 5, A. B. Rood '31; 4, F. J. Swayze '31; 3, S. H. Wolcott, Jr. '33; 3, A. D. Robertson '33; Bow, W. H. Holcombe '33; Cox, H. H. Bissell...
Bacon's Crew--Stroke, Bacon; 7, Millard; 6, M. M. Johnson, Jr. '31; 5, A. B. Rood '31; 4, F. J. Swayze '33; 3, W. H. Holcombe '33; 2, Bullock; Bow, R. H. Svendsen '32; A. H. Stebbins...
...Hamilton Gray '33, S. H. Haste '34, John Heard Jr. '33, R. R. Hildreth '31, J. L. Hutter '33, G. N. Lewis '32, D. M. Matthews '32, W. A. McGivney '33, D. Miller '34, J. T. Quinby '34, G. E. Ray '32, F. B. Rice '31, A. B. Rood '31, T. D. Spencer '34, S. H. Stackpole '33, R. S. Stout '28, Proctor, C. B. Syers '33, J. F. Trosh '33, R. K. Vincent '32, C. B. Ware '34, W. S. Warner '32, R. S. Watson '32, E. E. Wendell '32, R. R. Write '32, C. Wood...