Word: gates
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have in recent years been developed. In the first place, the time devoted to these sports by the principal teams and crews is excessive. No sport which requires of the players more than two hours a day during term time is fit for college uses. The large sums of gate money are often wastefully and ineffectively spent. To football there is the special objection that although its risks are inordinate and excessive, the recent development of the game has made it more and more dangerous, without making it more skiful or interesting...
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...larger games on Holmes Field there is always a tremendous crowding about the gate because ticket purchasers put off buying their tickets till the last minute. This is unpleasant not only for those who purchase tickets at the gate, but also for those who have their tickets bought and who have to wait behind the crowd. All this can be avoided if men will purchase their admission tickets before 12 o'clock Thursday at Leavitt and Peirce...
...years these detectives. who are usually mustered from the roughs of the North End in Boston, have been employed by some one in power to watch over the yard and the surrounding spreads. At times they have made themselves most objectionable. Last year several stationed themselves at the gate of the gymnasium spread and tried to admit their lady friends by attempting to bulldoze the proper custodian. This gentleman was fortunately not to be trifled with although the Pinkerton men made themselves most disagreeable...