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Above one of the most traversed pathways into the Yard, there is engraved on the gate archway "Enter to Grow in Wisdom." After aweing busloads of professional sightseers with this sentiment for decades, the University has now turned its back on growth, or at least, nocturnal growth. The gate and its fellows, as you know if you intend to pass the coming mid-term examinations, are locked promptly at 8 p.m. And so, with misgivings we continue what bids to become an editorial crusade: we request once more that the gates be unlocked until midnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Open Up Those Early Gates | 1/18/1955 | See Source »

...march. Scouts in the van investigate likely targets and lead an "ant-sea" attack to devour everything living within reach. But for all their ferocity, the drivers die in direct sunlight. Forced to cross bare ground on a bright day, they quickly throw up earth to form a covered archway as protection, and march...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Social Ants | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

Last week, when news of the crime became public, Panechates, his vicious murder unavenged, was back in his usual box in an archway outside an exhibition of Chinese art. All that could be done was to change the sign above his bier and restore to him his rightful name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Murdered Mummy | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...demand that he surrender to save the lives of uncounted thousands of Filipino civilians there. One completely authenticated atrocity story is reported by American officers. From an observation post they watched while the Japs tied a naked, teen-age Filipino girl to a post in front of an archway, to keep our artillery from shelling the archway, which they used for troop movements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Return to the Rock | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

University of Southern California. Over the stone archway entrance to Bovard Administration Building flaps a red-white-&-blue service flag with 1,300 stars to denote U.S.C.'s contribution to the fighting forces. Sorority girls who turned up their noses at privates a year ago will go necking with them now. Just after Pearl Harbor the prevailing attitude was "eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we drill"; in the first blackout last winter, U.S.C. fraternity men made merry chasing around sorority houses. Now they take blackouts seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Last Days of School | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

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