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...money, could obtain as much income as it does now from the cheap rooms of College House, or from the Co operative in Dane. Aside from all this, a respectable looking club building would go far towards tempering W. D. Howell's remark that "Harvard square is the ugliest spot on earth, outside of New York City...
...cruel knight. He was given a year in which to discover what women liked most. Arthur and Gawain hunted high and low in vain, till a most filthy and ugly woman said she would save King Arthur, if Gawain would wed her. The tale says she was the ugliest woman alive, yet Gawain readily offered to marry her. So she told Arthur that women liked sovereignty most. Thus Arthur escaped, but poor Gawain found an arrogant mistress in his wife. At last, however, she bade him choose between having her beautiful by day and ugly by night, or the reverse...
...associations from beauty of architecture." This is lamentable, but undeniable. Harvard College, in its present condition, is a wilderness of brick and mortar, and is only saved from positive ugliness by its venerable elms and shady lawns. Aside from architectural grace, most of our buildings are composed of that ugliest of materials, - red brick. A red brick building never becomes venerable, - it merely grows dingy. No amount of smoke, mould, or historic interest, can improve such a structure in appearance...