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...detail, rising tower above flanking tower, up and up along slender perpendicular lines to a blunt, shorn-off pinnacle 680 ft. above the rectangular base. The base is to be 360 by 260 ft., with four main arches, each 39 ft. high, opening into the heart of the pile. Batteries of high-speed elevators will be installed to race aloft through the tower to class rooms, laboratories, shops, libraries distributed on the building's 52 floors...
Utility. Aside from its symbolism, high construction appealed to the Pittsburghers for the flexibility it affords in the use and arrangement of space. With the exception of the medical and dental schools, the entire University will be quartered in the pile, uncrowded even when its students number 12,000. Moreover, massing all schools and departments together in one building was felt to make for unity in the educational idea imparted to the students. A final, obvious consideration was economy of terrain...
Later in the scrimmage the University forwards rushed through the seconds and blocked a punt on the latter's six-yard line. On the fourth down Braden landed on top of a pile of players with the ball directly over the goal line, and scored the lone tally of the three-quarter hour scrimmage...
...ROMANCE OF FORGOTTEN TOWNS -John T. Paris-Harper ($6.00). What do you know about the birth and death of Jamestown, Va.; of Pemaquid, Me.; of the sodhouse towns of Kansas, nothing of which remains but an occasional pile of turf on the prairie? What do you know of all the other hundreds of towns and villages that sprang up in the early days of our country, flourished and perished, leaving here and there a battered church tower, a deserted farmhouse, a buried pavement-and nothing else? Or of Robert Owen's communistic town in Indiana, or Prince Gallitzin...
...less we say the better. The jokes and articles are uniformly poor; the drawings for the most part little more. A frontispiece sketch depicting the infant freshman, lost amid a pile of grips, packages and steamer rugs, and finally unwound and revealed in the college office is the best of the lot. But who are the strange individuals in it masquerading as Deans? Can one of them be Mr. Whitney? We should like pleasantly to remark first that the "multitude of shins" idea, embodied in one of Ibis's "inklings" is as old, about, as Don Marquis...