Word: gate
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Attention has been called to the large gate receipts and the enormous amount of money spent on athletics as bad phases of the present athletic situation. This large income comes partly from the University, but chiefly from the public. At present season tickets are required for each sport and special tickets for big games, and in addition there are numerous calls for subscriptions, with consequent annoyance. There is a strong undergraduate feeling that subscriptions should be abolished. The burden of athletic support is not borne equally at present; a few pay for more than their share. With separate tickets...
...will be felt more and more. Better athletic equipment for the University, including a modern and adequate gymnasium, with a large swimming pool an indoor track, new locker and shower rooms under the Stadium, and improvements on Soldiers Field, are legitimate ways to spend any amount of surplus from gate receipts. Outsiders are only too glad to pay to see College athletics, and it is only right that they should. This seems to me a legitimate way for the University to get financial aid for fostering general athletics and securing these improvements. JOHN. J. ROWE...
Tickets admitting to both the University and also the Freshman games may be obtained, at 50 cents each, at the Co-operative and at Leavitt & Peirce's until 1 o'clock, after which hour they will be on sale at the gate. Reserved seats, at the side of the University rink, at 25 cents each, will be on sale at the same places...
...operative today at 1 o'clock. Admission tickets for each game will be 50 cents, and reserved seats will be 25 cents extra for holders of season or admission tickets. After 1 o'clock on the day of a game tickets will be sold at the gate...
...speaker of the evening, who gave an interesting account of the undergraduate life of M. Newell '94, commenting upon his charming character and the brilliancy of his mind. It is in memory of Newell, who was one of the greatest athletes ever graduated from Harvard, that the Newell Gate on Soldiers Field and the Newell Boat Club have been erected. Mr. Copeland also read extracts from his college diary, which further recalled his great versatility...