Word: gately
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question and, indeed, of the whole spirit of college athletics, that we cannot let it pass without comment. "The proposal," says the Clipper, with an insight of which no one not thorougly imbued with the spirit of "professionalism" would be capable of displaying, "has a very suspicious taint of gate-money influences about it." Now, we beg leave to state that the argument of increased gate receipts has never entered the discussion at all, except in the most casual manner, and moreover, when the question comes up for discussion it will hardly be taken into serious consideration...
...question of gate receipts has not been considered for a moment as a conclusive argument in the settlement of the question...
...meet Harvard's champions. This meeting would at once raise track athletics to the prominence which they deserve, and the Harvard-Yale athletic games would rank with the Harvard ball game and the Princeton foot-ball match. The expenses of the meeting would be more than covered by the gate-money, and the experiment would involve no financial danger. The question at least deserves a thorough discussion in both the papers and by all interested in athletics...
...report of the treasurer of the Boston Base-Ball Association, submitted at the meeting held Wednesday evening, showed that the total gate receipts in 1882 were $37,917.45, a gain of $12,929.42 over 1881, The aggregate attendance at games on the home grounds was 50,971. The prospects for 1883 are decidedly encouraging...
...Plutarch, author of a Greek grammar, of a most excellent work on the Syntax of the Greek Moods and Tenses, and of many other philological treatises.... The school, for the present, until it shall have erected its own building, has rented a newly repaired house near Hadrian's Gate and the Pillars of the Temple of Olympian Zeus. We heartily welcome the coming of this new school of the Americans, and sincerely hope that the results of its work will be worthy of the great expectations which it has aroused, and of the high scholarship of its members. The young...