Word: gated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that all of the various recipients of the "gate" are lining up solidly in support of the game as it is now conducted. That is to be expected, but the fact still remains that spring practice, early September practice and many other evils should...
...late in the Independent. What should be a strictly collegiate function has become a gigantic public spectacle, raising the young gentlemen engaged in it to the notoriety of gladiators and matadors. What should be strictly amateur in spirit has taken on strange aspects of professionalism: the season's gate receipts are welcomed as financing less sensational sports, sometimes even squash courts and swimming pools: and victory is sought as raising the college in prestige and in numbers, as swelling the flow of benefaction from opulent but otherwise uneducational graduates...
...this manner will not carry the financial burden of athletics as it now does. An endowment for athletics will therefore, be necessary. This last point is vital and inevitable, if football is to escape from the evils of overemphasis which now are manifest. So long as colleges depend upon gate receipts from football games to support their entire athletic program, this fact alone will remain a sufficient excuse for continuing the present unsatisfactory system...
...notable one--not so much for the upsets which have received such lengthy notice in the press, but rather for other and more significant developments, fore-shadowing the future. Never before has football as a spectacle been so popular. Never has the general public been so insatiable. Never have gate receipts mounted so high. Never have the colleges posed before the public in a role so strikingly false...
...return from capturing Suedia (TIME, Oct. 5), ordered that the corpses of various brigands whom the French had shot down should be paraded through the streets on camel back. Three days later the bodies of twelve Circassians (French irregulars) were found dead out-side the Bab Esh Sharol gate. Came night, and French soldiers were attacked and mutilated in one of the slums of Damascus. Came another night, and bands of Druse tribesmen filtered into the city. Three purposes have been ascribed to them: 1) The kidnaping of General Sarrail. 2) Revenge for the plundering of their villages by Circassian...