Word: gately
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bicycle races will occur on Wednesday, May 16, at Beacon park. Tickets can be obtained at Bartlett's and at the gate. The programme is as follows...
...would prevent a large number of men from witnessing the games on account of inability to pay the price of admission. To the minds of some the matter appears in its mercenary aspect, and it is feared that the erection of a fence for the purpose of increasing the gate receipts will smack of professionalism. Still another class look at the question from an aesthetic point of view, and in the eyes of these the unsightly appearance of the fence is its chief fault. It is believed, also, that the erection of a fence will create opposition to the athletic...
...objection raised on account of the air of professionalism which will be given to our athletes by the erection of a fence, is answered by mentioning the fact that the purpose of the fence is not to make money - although it might incidentally increase the amount of gate receipts - but rather to keep out the hordes of "muckers" who infest the outskirts of the field and make themselves disagreeable by the hoots and cries, and who at the end of every game rush on to the field in a body, cutting it up seriously and doing more damage...
...HARVARD HERALD: I wish to suggest through your columns that the managers of the Athletic Association take some action to prevent crowding at the opening of the doors at the next meeting. Half an hour is not time enough for nearly two thousand persons to pass through a small gate and seat themselves in the hall. If at the next meeting there are as many present as there were at the last - probably there will be more - it will be very inconvenient, if not almost impossible, for a gentleman with ladies to get into the hall unless some change...
...golden gate...