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Lux et veritas?At lunchtime, there is often an official Yale tour group standing in front of Sterling Memorial Library. Invariably, the student tour guide tells the story of how architect James Gamble Rogers designed a cathedral for Yale and presented it to the trustees. They told him Yale was now a secular university and had no need for a cathedral. Rogers then crossed out the word "cathedral" on the plans and wrote "library," and Sterling was built according to these unaltered plans. Needless to say, this story is both preposterous and untrue. So our hypothetical question is: Would it be wrong for someone—say, an editor with a penchant for fact-checking—to holler "Lies!" as he passes? Thank you for your attention to this matter.  |
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George Huthsteiner '74 TD, 7:21pm July 31 2025 | 
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The comment period has expired.<> Who is in charge of the tour guides? JG Rogers in fact had planned a large "chapel" to fill the space across College Street presently filled by parking and the Music School, to "balance" with Sterling Library....