Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This afternoon at Soldiers Field the Cross Country squad will run its first race of the season against Holy Cross. The Freshmen will go around Soldiers Field once, starting at the flagpole and ending near the baseball gate, approximately a mile and a half, while the Varsity will run up the Charles River riding path, crossing at the Watertown Bridge and returning on the other aide of the river to finish near Soldiers Field, a total of three and a half miles...
...trade in tickets outside the University members has borne up strongly under the rates charged during the last few years, as shown by the huge gate receipt figures. By skillful altering of the price on non-University tickets it would be possible to continue to make profits for other sports, and still admit members of the University for a much more feasible amount than is in effect at present. Professional football is to be seen for $1; one of Harvard's big games costs $4.40 to the unbooked students. Undergraduate interest in professional football can be expected to rise...
...Joan Crawford works hard but looks too wholesome and collegiate to suit the part. The basic trouble really is that Rain is presented as a classic, not as the 10-20-30 melodrama of popping sex and fanaticism that Maugham wrote. Typical shot: a closeup of the name Golden Gate on the side of a ship, spelled out letter by letter, three times in succession, possibly to create suspense...
...practiced in American colleges. The report made clear the fact that in the colleges of our country organized athletics, and particularly football, had ceased to be games played for sport's sake, and has been transformed into shows for the public, through which the colleges received huge sums in gate receipts, comparable in some cases to the income from tuition fees...
...same time make it pay large sums into the college treasury, is very much like the effort to enforce the Volstead Act--it runs counter to the qualities of human nature. When the football player sees his college gather in a million dollars in one year in gate receipts and considers how hard he has been worked to achieve that result, he is strongly inclined to feel that he is entitled to some of the swag. To sure, this money is supposed to be used to maintain the general athletic programme; but for the football players athletics means reporting...