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Lowell has been the core of the House system in tradition and in geography since it was opened in 1930. The other Houses appear to cluster about its imposing white bell tower...
Artistically, the House boats two trim Georgian courts lorded over by the spiring bell tower. Its panelled library contains exceptional economics and poetry collections and an undisputed record library...
This last year the chief interest of the House, if a generalization can be made of 300 students, has been not marks but extra curricular activities. Still the stronghold of scholarship, it now is using its Common Room and unique Tower Room, its Musical Society and its year-book. The Chronicle, to greater advantage...
...Cincinnati's show contained one style of architecture that was as indigenous to the Ohio River Valley as the river itself: Steamboat Gothic. Best example was a fine old mansion, "Hill-Forest," which stands on the muddy Ohio's banks near Aurora, Ind. (see cut). With circular tower and porches, wrought-iron balustrades, Steamboat Gothic represented the last word in elegance to riverboat captains of the 1850s, is one of the most elaborate forms of U.S. architecture ever built of wood...
Before making his first jump from a "free parachute'' tower last week, Chaplain Hall observed: "You know, I'm honestly nuts to get up and jump and I'm crazy about this outfit. But it's a little funny. I've never been in a plane in my life." He jumped, sprained both legs. Undaunted, he will jump from a plane when his legs mend...