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...February 16, protester Michael Adams chained himself to the gate of the Union for nearly two hours, even though the construction workers continued to labor behind...
Harvard is well-known for churning out investment bankers, lawyers and doctors and pumping them through Johnston Gate each June...
Carson could have been seriously injured in the fall, because a series of spikes sit atop the gate separating Wigglesworth from Mass. Ave. But Huppe said there were no apparent injuries as of Friday, because the student landed on the "heavily mulched" area between the fence and the first-year dorm...
...Jury President Frances Ford Coppolla, who knows a thing or two about over-extended budgets, blamed Wall Street investors for the "corporate studio mentality" that brought cookie-cutter creativity to the industry following a string of Hollywood financial disasters. He traced the trend back to the megabomb "Heaven's Gate." Said Coppolla: "They used that film as an excuse to take over. These are the people who brought you the Big Mac, and in the last twelve years I can't think of a classic they've made." Coppolla's sideswipe struck some as ironic, since he heads the judging...
Chiseled over the Dexter Gate to Harvard Yard on Mass. Ave. is a surprising inscription. On the street side, the inscription reads "Enter to Grow in Wisdom"--nothing terribly shocking for a University. But the message written on the Yard side of the gate betrays its age: "Depart to Serve Better Thy Country and Thy Kind." These words designate the gate a relic, a memento from a time that has surely left us behind. The inscription, composed by Harvard President Charles William Eliot, class of 1893, elegantly expresses a concept of the university that seems archaic and foreign these days...