October 5, 2015
A whimsical representation of an angel on one of the bricks of the Hall of Graduate Studies, which was designed in the Collegiate Gothic style by James Gamble Rogers and completed in 1932. The angel was intended as a tribute to James Rowland Angell, then President of Yale University; a number of other playful symbols are molded into the brick exterior of the building, including the letter “W” next to a cross, in recognition of Wilbur Lucius Cross, then Dean of the Graduate School, and “YALE” in crude, blocky letters.
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