Word: gate
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...young people dress up—I never had good clothes; I see young people with suits, with ties....[Felix] said, ‘Look [at] those [gates]....Any person who is rich, educated, he came from this [gate]. This area...controls the whole world....Anybody rich [came] from this door.” He remembers thinking, “‘How can I find a place around here...
Nick B. Sylvester ’04 has come a long way from his high school days, when his main contribution to the musical world came from his jazz trumpet at the occasional bar and bat mitzvah. A year after passing one last time through Johnston Gate, Sylvester is now well on his way to becoming a gatekeeper himself for the underground music community...
...days, ending this past Sunday—“biblical.” Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck, a professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, ventured into her House’s courtyard last week in the dead of night to erect a solitary mini-gate she had created from scratch. My mother, meanwhile, refuses to refer to the display by any name other than “The Shower Curtains...
...reason 32 percent of the faculty, according to a Crimson poll, want their president to resign has little to do with Innate-gate (referring, of course, to the word for which Summers was loudly condemned, but that he never said). They dislike him because he challenged their work ethic at a meeting, or refused to include all of them on Allston planning, or declined to offer their spouse tenure, or took a courageous stand against Israeli divestment. All of which should be reason to praise Summers, not condemn...
Once on the other side of Johnston Gate, however, things looked considerably different. Instead of engaging in philosophical discourse while sipping mocha in between classes, I stood in line at Annenberg for chicken marsala and stumbled through awkward introductions with my new classmates (Rena Xu; Holworthy; Pittsburgh; Biochemistry). Instead of reaching enlightenment in a stately wood-paneled chamber, I found my way to Cabot Library (“They never showed THIS in the brochures!” my freshman roommate exclaimed indignantly). And far from knowing instinctively where my niche at this large school lay, I treaded uncertainly...