Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take part in athletics; the status of four minor sports will not be affected, and inter-house athletics will be fostered as before. The alternative is the hand-to-mouth policy of old days which must eventually lead any institution to have far too great concern with football gate receipts. The Director of Athletics is probably more fully aware than anyone of all the dangers inherent in an unbalanced budget, and we need have no fear that there will be any deviation from the course which has been...
...Naval Academy at Annapolis. The Academy was blacklisted in 1933 after it replaced over half of its civilian instructors with regular Navy men. Scrutinizing the five black sheep in the pen, the professors decided that the least consequential of them had washed itself white. Opening the gate a crack, they allowed Harris Teachers College to scoot gratefully out. Then the professors set about penning up a big, grimy animal which had long been running free. This was the University of Pittsburgh, whose chancellor is pale, Messianic John Gabbert Bowman and whose home is a handsome Gothic skyscraper, in the heart...
...nothing he could do. To let a tug through one morning last week he had just opened the drawbridge over the muddy Appomattox River a mile from Hopewell, Va. when he heard a tearing crash. Twisting, he saw a big Greyhound bus southbound from Richmond skid through the safety gate, plunge with its screaming passengers off the open bridge. Nothing came up from the 24-foot depth but some oil, bubbling and streaking the surface of the yellow river...
...large memorial gate in honor of the late President Eliot, which is to be erected on Quincy street between Emerson Hall and the President's house, will be completed in time for the Tercentenary celebration next year...
...This gate, and 770 feet of decorative iron fence, which will be used to replace the existing wooden structure on Quincy street, is the gift of the class of 1908. The fence which surrounds the Yard was built in sections over a period of years extending from 1890 to 1915, and no two are quite alike; however, the designs have been made so that all that sections will now be in harmony...