| |
| |
Yale University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Soon thereafter, a group of ten Congregationalist ministers led by James Pierpont, all of whom were Harvard alumni, met in Branford, Connecticut, to pool their books to form the school's first library. |
| | Similarly, the decorative friezes on the buildings depict contemporary scenes such as policemen chasing a robber and arresting a prostitute (on the wall of the Law School), or a student relaxing with a mug of beer and a cigarette. |
| | The architect, James Gamble Rogers, added to the appearance of great age of these buildings by splashing the walls with acid[12], deliberately breaking their leaded glass windows and repairing them in the style of the Middle Ages, and creating niches for decorative statuary but leaving them empty to simulate loss or theft over the ages. |
| en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yale_University (6551 words) |
|
