Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Enter to grow in wisdom, but after eleven go around by the main gate." So might be inscribed the granite arch above Wigglesworth Gate. Today this gate stands as a continual source of frustration to the returned men of Harvard who are doomed to live in the Yard...
Since time immemorial--or at least since the gate was built--the custom has been to lock it on the dot of six in the evening. At best this was but a feeble gesture toward protecting the Yard, comparable to stopping up one hole in a sieve. All the other gates blatantly proclaim welcome to the crafty artisans of the night. It was only natural that the present inhabitants of the Yard, carrying on the greater part of their social and scholastic activities in the Houses, should request that this custom be temporarily suspended...
...judging the merits of the case. After preliminary tactics of passing the buck, a campaign of false issues was begun. One sober member of the University charged that there would be defecation in the gateway by townies if it were left open. He argued everything except why this gate of the many gates in the Yard should be locked at night. Finally a milk sop was thrown to the students by extending the hour of closing to eleven...
...from the infidel. In Jerusalem, the Arab temper flared most angrily. A mob surged from the Mosque of Omar, shouted "Death to the Americans and British!" and stoned a column of Tommies. They fell back before British batons and a sudden heavy rainstorm. Tanks rumbled up to the Damascus Gate. The 100,000 British troops in the Holy Land were alerted...
Worst Experience. Snowballing close around the schoolhouse and on the well-trodden path between school and outhouses is forbidden. There is an enormous field beyond, in which snowballing is tolerated, if not actively encouraged. When I arrived at the front gate one morning, some of my little angels were snowballing some other little angels just in back of school. I went out and thumped three of them. Fate at that moment sent the eighth-grade boys out to snowball the second-graders right under our noses. This is known as being On the Spot. "Oh yeah," my children...