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Word: bleakest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until it knows more about graduate opinion on the subject. Some of the suggested products are curious. A university chapel, to supplant the present Appleton Chapel, for instance. Appleton Chapel is a monument of the '50s. With no disrespect to its worthy founder, it is one of the bleakest and ugliest buildings ever raised by the hand of man. Possibly, however, undergraduate esthetic feeling toward it has been softened since the compulsory huddling of students at too early hours was abolished. It can't be destroyed, it seems. Possibly, if it stands 100 or 200 years longer, it may acquire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 1/3/1922 | See Source »

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