“First Sight of College”
“This grand mass of stone structures struck Lucinda, paradoxically, as womblike. The thick-walled buildings offered protection and security, a defense against the intrusion of all that was disgusting and trivial in the outside world. Here, she thought, was an intellectual bastion, a safe place for those who wished to think and explore, ponder and create. One could shelter behind those dense oak doors from the thousand-and-one acts and gestures of ugliness that polluted daily life in the world at large.”