For eleven years John Gabbert Bowman, Iowa-born chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, has been building a 535-ft., 42-story skyscraper known to his admiring fellow citizens as the "Cathedral of Learning." During Depression, Pitt had to cut its faculty salaries and staged a Red hunt which got Chancellor Bowman into trouble with the American Association of University Professors. But the Cathedral of Learning kept climbing into the air. Last week, with Pitt's sesquicentennial celebration well under way, the Cathedral of Learning, now 90% complete, was opened to two days of public inspection....
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