Word: gately
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association was represented by E. J. Wendell and by W. S. Sloan of Columbia. The championship meeting will be held June 10. Mr. Wendell asked, on behalf of the Inter-Collegiate Association, that the rule disqualifying college base-ball players who competed with professional players where gate-money was charged, be rescinded, for the reason that they individually receive no part of the proceeds, but that the money received is entirely applied to paying the expenses of the nine. The rule was rescinded, and the vote referred to the executive committee for confirmation...
...true, when it went to New Haven, and realized a sum sufficient to be a decided help in paying its expenses. But the cost of the two New York trips was large, and on account of the bad weather but very little money was taken at the gate, so that the Team fell considerably behind in finances. The managers are now going among the students, trying to stir them up to a little more enthusiastic support. We cannot urge too strongly upon all the College that we owe a great deal to the Football Team, and that we should...
...Boylston prize. I talked about idiots, and dolts, and imbeciles, and called people daft and beetle-headed, and expressed my gratitude that I had not been created either a woman or a wooden goat, and - well, George dropped his handkerchief in his haste to see the outside of the gate, but he never came back after...
...outer gate I noticed a stone shaft that I found to be one of the circular points at Infinity, the end of the axis of the universe. On entering the Museum I saw a statue inscribed, "To D. P. G. A. T." "This was the American Inner Secretary," said my guide; "he was killed by a tribe of Indians who lived near Boston; a dinner was then given in honor of his memory, and by the sale of tickets, funds for this statue were raised. Great disputes arose about the affair, however, and the monument was sent here for safe...
...hard as coral"? Why has this poet forsaken that classic drudge, adamant? and why the abrupt transformation of a resisting person to one throwing darts? In the last line of all there is an abrupt descent from the sublime to the ridiculous, but then "gate" is an excellent rhyme for "mate." A little poem entitled "Crepusculum" attempts to describe the twilight season. In the second stanza the poet speaks...