Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midst of all the recent turbulent discussion of the evils attendant on overemphasis of football and superspectacle gate-receipts, there appeared the brilliant idea that the alumni might be willing to defray the expenses of our athletics by large annual contributions. At the time, the suggestion was condemned as unfair and impractical, and we are glad to see that it has finally been put to death by President Angell...
...advantages that are claimed for the athletic subside freedom of the student from excessive gate tax, elimination of the temptation to commercialize, and stability for the budget remain to be exploded before one can agree with President Augell's stand...
Long has emphatic U. S. college football been publicized and editorialized. Nearly every educator agrees that Something Should Be Done. Last fortnight a suggestion appeared: that "the importance and influence of gate receipts" for athletic contests be ended; that football and other sports be endowed by potent, enthusiastic college alumni. Author of this suggestion was Dr. Nicholas ("Miraculous") Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, in his annual report. He revealed that Columbia had given "serious and prolonged study" to the football question (Columbia gave up in 1905, resumed it again in 1915 for a five-year trial, which proved satisfactory...
...being an actual thruster, explains how a poet may open his casement on perilous seas: "I have taken a footman's modest part in countless hunts, and have also hunted on a bicycle. When one knows, as I did, every inch of the wide countryside, every path, stile, gate and gap, as well as the workings of a fox's mind, one can hunt, even on foot, with great success, on cold-hunting days. . . . After all, poetry is not a written record of what one does. Were it so, Shakespeare would have been hanged for murder and Sophocles...
Gregorian chants are used to furnish an appropriate musical background and the visual setting for the performance is the Germanic Museum reproduction on the "Golden Gate" of the Cathedral of Freiburg, Germany...