Word: gated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trees are being sought by Superintendent of Grounds W. P. Herlihey, to be placed in the Yard. Two of these will be placed between Massachusetts and Harvard Halls near the Johnson Gate; a third between University Hall and Appleton Chapel; and the remaining three in front of University Hall...
...Philadelphia, and Trenton are supplied by the fleet which lies off Highland, New Jersey. New York is fed from the sea by a fleet anchored off Sandy Hook and in the neighboring waters. San Francisco gets its Mexican, Canadian, and Japanese liquors from the armada plying outside the Golden Gate. Boston and the lesser New England ports are infested with smugglers from the Bahamas and the West Indies...
...designs for each ticket will be to keeping with its particular purpose. The Memorial tickets, for example, will in general have on them some design of Memorial Hall, and the Yard tickets some familiar object, such as a well-known gate, associated with the Yard...
...relegate a custom of the past to oblivion. Life, perhaps, is fleeting, but time is short. When a certain Pharoah was embalmed and laid away in his royal tomb in the hillside, a mouse happened to wander in with his funeral procession. When the slaves sealed up the gate the mouse lay down beside the king, and so they were found when the archaeologists broke in--companions in eternity...
...become a habit with Americans in the last few years to cram into lecture halls to hear some distinguished Englishman,--newly-arrived on his first visit to the United States,--talk on his opinion of them. After which, the lecturer gathers together his gate receipts, goes home, and publishes a profitable volume on "Impressions in America" which satisfies him and which is eagerly bought on the western side of the water. Nothing could be fairer...