During the 1800s, a revival of a building style from the European middle ages began springing up on American college campuses. This style, referred to as Collegiate Gothic, has many interesting features, most notably of which is the use of grotesques and gargoyles as decorative elements. These come in an almost limitless variety. Armed with a camera and a sense of irony, Mathew M. Duman has traveled to ten such campuses in search of their most compelling sculpture. Within its 300 pages, this book features over 500 black and white photographs of architecture and architectural sculpture from these American institutions of higher education: the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, Duke University, Princeton University, Washington University in St. Louis, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, The University of Chicago, The City College of New York, Bryn Mawr College and Yale University.