For nearly a century, a fraternity of ghouls and griffins have guarded the tender minds at City College, on its Gothic campus in western Harlem.

It was that kind of weekend on the majestic Gothic campus of Princeton University.

The rest of us focused on work, at college and in the subway to and from the old Gothic campus in Harlem.

But the loudest and most sustained outcry may come from the reunion classes, who are famous for transforming Princeton's lush Gothic campus into an orange and black Mardi Gras.

An opportunity to evaluate the impact of the recent building boom on a Gothic campus.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Yale created plans to create a thirteenth college, whose concrete facade would have broken with the campus's more prevalent Gothic and Georgian architecture.

Yale University is noted for its principally Collegiate Gothic campus and has a number of such buildings, constructed of unreinforced stone, between 1917 and 1931, including Harkness Tower.

The West or Gothic campus about a mile from East Campus became home to Trinity College, along with Duke University Hospital and the graduate and professional schools.

The University of Chicago's Gothic campus is also notable for its innovative use of quadrangles.

That's when they built the collegiate Gothic buildings at City College, and that was one of the first collegiate Gothic campuses in America.