Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connected by mistake with Homer Martin. Leaping from bed the young U. A. W. president, a onetime national hop, step & jump champion, taxied to the Fisher plant, there to face the men who had threatened to turn a fire hose on him if he stuck his head in the gate. At the end of an hour and twenty minutes' palaver President Martin emerged unscathed, the rebels trailing behind him to announce to waiting reporters: "It's all over, boys...
...lady, don't you know women aren't allowed in here at night? The gate's over there...
...this according to custom. Also according to custom, the Cadets plan to start eating lunch in the Union at 11:15 o'clock, march to Soldiers Field via Dudley Gate and the Weeks Bridge at 12:40 o'clock, enter the Stadium at 1:15, and clear the field 15 minutes later. After the game they are dismissed...
Before the game the Kirkland band attempted to discourage the Eliot boys by marching right into the Merrimanland court. When they tried to march out toward the field, however, they found that an unidentified Elephant had barred the gate. There was confusion...
From now on all forms of athletic endeavour, from lowly cross-country to highly-touted football, will become less and less dependent on the haunting specter of insufficient gate receipts; envisioning a not-too-distant future when sports-for-sports-sake wil bring true the dreams of all exponents of simon-pure athletics...