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ARCHITECTS WHOOPSDEARIE IN GOTHIC AT YALE--MORLEY

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Christopher Morley, well known essayist and novelist, waxed a bit sarcastic in the latest number of the Saturday Review in describing the effect of the new Yale College buildings, "where architects have gone whoopsdearie in Gothic. The new Yale needs a lot of walking on to give it character. ...The effect, however, is not as depressing as that endless acreage of synthetic Georgian at Harvard."

Henry R. Shepley '10, of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbott, architects of slandered Harvard, when confronted merely said, "Let him have a crack at it."

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