LyleGold
PhD Student
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Reg: 11-22-04
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02-13-22 02:23 PM - Post#336324
In response to iogyhufi
Well, the last game against the Quakers followed recent tradition where Yale is hot garbage at the drafty old barn in University City.
Ha, so funny. I’d never take a cheap shot at Payne Whitney, as it’s the only other gym in the Ivies with any atmosphere whatsoever. I have taken shots at your coach’s tactics, especially in the early years of his tenure, but that’s a story for a different time. Just ask Jeff Schiffner.
But still, you’re not the first to make the mistake of referring to a magnificent monument filled with history and tradition as a barn. E.M. Forster, in his eminent, but at times cringeworthy novel, A Room with a View , (perhaps the best known of the genre about tightly wound 19th century Brits journeying to Tuscany and immediately unraveling), in reference to the Basilica of Santa Croce, which contains the tombs of Michelangelo, Macchiavelli, and Galileo, as well as important frescoes by Giotto and sculptures by Donatello, says,”Santa Croce, though like a barn, has harvested many beautiful things inside its walls.” Although the enormously important Franciscan church is not a cathedral, the Palestra is.
The Palestra: Cathedral of Basketball
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000TV4QT6/ref=cm_ sw_r_c...
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