Word: tower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mundane activity it is time to stop, and as it were, take stock. Being occupied is not the sole requisite for a Vagabond's happiness, no indeed. Unless his memory fails him, life was better ordered back in the old days when he had his rooms in Memorial Hall Tower, when he spent his casual hours in the Yard, and the more important ones in his easy chair...
...back to the two Houses; they both have been having secret practice. This is bad. It may explain the panels in Lowell House tower, but it defeats the whole purpose of the Plan itself. The boys are supposed to chum around with each other. To segregate the football squads is not fair to the others. Besides it wouldn't be at all surprising to find the Dunster House team coming down to dinner and taking up a whole table by themselves. They might not pay any attention to their supporters and, worse, their supporters may not pay any attention them...
...Yale wandered through the splendors of Harkness Memorial Quadrangle and marveled. They drew inspiration from other works of Architect James Gamble Rogers, praised with President James Rowland Angell the "splendid uprush" of collegiate Gothic. There were few iconoclasts to denounce the theatrical charm of Wrexham Court and its tower ("copy of Wrexham Tower, England, built 1506"), or the artificially-cracked window panes and impressive, scholarly gloom of Harkness chambers which resulted from the building being designed principally from the outside. Originally intended to give U. S. education a hoary, spiritual aspect, neo-Gothic has only lately been used by radically...
...well-known modern Swedish architect, visiting Yale a while ago, was shown the [Sterling] Library while it was still unfinished and the 16-story Book Tower stood only as a structure of steel girders and braces in geometric patterns. 'Ah!' said the architect, looking up in surprise and relief, 'at last you are doing something really modern at Yale. ... Of course you will do no more than cover the steel tower with glass?' . . . How utterly must he have been disgusted to see stone vaults, instead of supporting the roof, being supported by the roof! Or to see buttresses, instead...
Music hath charms to soothe the Vagabond's breast, but not the wild clangor of Russian carillons soon to invade his privacy in the Lowell tower. He prefers the softer strains of Symphony Hall concerts such as that colorful performance of The Don Cossacks on Sunday afternoon...