Our universities have their own fine traditions and individuality. The very picture of the older buildings in Harvard Yard, of Connecticut Hall at Yale and of Nassau Hall here at Princeton have about them a charm and tradition that calls to mind almost poignantly the older America of Colonial days. These colleges were nurtured in a sturdy and rugged individualism and a sound scholarship that is the pride of these institutions. But I must confess that I have somewhat the feeling that I would if they were to substitute a Gothic tower for the Capitol dome when I see the Gothic halls of Yale and Princeton and the invasion of Harvard by an artificial Quad system (and undoubtedly it must be in Gothic) while Yale is at the same time officially recommending this Quad plan.

I am constantly in fear that the fad for Gothic, for which credit or crime is at least partially due to Messrs. Cram and Ferguson will spread to some of those universities which still represent in their buildings the unmixed blessings of a single native tradition in architecture, that our own earlier unique and dignified American inheritance will be sacrificed, and that a Gothic anachronism will appear on the campus of the University of Virginia, William and Mary or at Harvard as now threatens. May God forbid such desecration--From a communication in The Daily Princetonian.

Editor's Note: The "unmixed blessing of a single native tradition in architecture" is just as surprising information as is the proposed Gothic invasion. A cursory glance at the Grays quadrangle corrects the first statement; the second must give way to the indisputable Georgian triumphs that are soon to border the Charles.