Word: gated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are other serious evils connected with the passionate interest and heavy gate receipts of big games, but so long as hundreds of thousands of people are determined to see Yale play Harvard it is hard to see how the over-emphasis on college games, with their attendant harm to the amateur spirit, can be prevented. --"New York Times...
...election for officers of the Freshman class will be held on Wednesday, March 1, from 8 A. M. to 6 P. M. The voting from 8 A. M. to 1 P. M. will take place only at the Class of '77 gate, which is on Massahcusetts avenue directly behind the Widener Libarary. From 10 o'clock to 6 the only polling place will be in the Standish Hall Common Room...
...Class of '77 gate...
...cannot be adjusted by eliminating athletics, or even by artificially decreasing their present popularity. Less emphasis on their importance, less expense for coaching and equipment, would lead directly from victory to defeat. Losing teams would mean a slackening of student interest with a corresponding decline in "spirit"; and smaller gate receipts, leading to a decrease in facilities for all-round physical development. Such a proceeding would be entirely destructive; it might indeed rob athletics of much of their present importance but it would not result in any transference of interest from the field of sport to the class room...
Coming to Cambridge after a strenuous day in Boston General Diaz will enter the Yard through the Johnston Gate and go to the steps of Widener Library where he will receive a general's salute from the guns of the Artillery Unit of the University R. O. T. C. He will then be received by the Faculty in the Widener Room, and from there will go directly to the Union...