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Fearing high jump-Won by G. H. Larsen 2G (four in.); second, J. J. Harley '34 (2 1-2 in.); third tie between G. W. Kuehn '32 (scratch), F. Tudor 1m (4 In.), and H. T. Shea 2GB (4in.). Height...
Radical? It surpassed all expectations. There was no limit to its innovations. Under the inspiring genius of James Gamble Rogers, the new Yale library was designed to include: (L) A cathedral of the English decorated period. (2.) A group of Tudor pavilions, loosely connected. (3.) A cloister, (4.) A court with details of: a. An Italian Gothic or Spanish arcade. b. An Elizabethan house. (5.) A central book tower armored with extremely heavy masonry under Romanesque inspiration, pierced by Early English lancet windows. (6.) Interiors designed with elaborate vaulting, Tudor bosses, medieval roof-painting, and furniture of Jacobean influence...
...efficiency would carry out the functions for which they were intended. Under the Yale hand, a chemistry laboratory became a Hampton Court palace; a gymnasium became a Norman Cathedral, well fortified from all access of light; fraternity houses and senior-society tombs were built as Attic temples, Saracenic strongholds. Tudor mansions, Venetian palaces, and sacred edifices of the classical revival. Every minor building became other-wordly, enchanting in its antique quaintness, its cumbersome and happy extravagance. The donors were tickled by the splendor, hardened business men felt holy when erecting imitation abbeys to their own memory; and Yale's cultural...
...Tudor library in Manhattan's 63rd Street hangs a portrait of his greatgrandfather, Samuel Seabury. first Anglican Bishop in America. He is married, childless, owns a summer home at East Hampton, L. I. When his inquisitorial duties began, he assembled his assistants ?whom he calls "my young men"?and told them: "We must divorce [this investigation] as far as possible from legalistic machinery. There is more eloquence in the testimony of an illiterate witness telling of oppression suffered from legal processes than in the greatest sermon, editorial or address ever written...
Maine. Republican Representative Wallace Humphrey White Jr. was elected to the Senate over Frank Haskell, Democrat, by a 30,000 majority to succeed Senator Arthur Robinson Gould, who did not run for reelection. The State also returned a solid Republican delegation to the House of Representatives. Republican Governor William Tudor Gardiner was reelected by some 16,000 votes over Edward C. Moran Jr., Democrat. Voter apathy was large; issues were small...