Word: gates
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...desire in name of common sense to protest against the absolutely idiotic arrangements provided by the football management in the manner of selling admission tickets at the Carlisle game. Even after the game was called a line of purchasers extending from the single ticket booth to the gate of Soldiers Field were still waiting their turn. The only persons benefited by such arrangements are the speculators. There is no reason under the sun why a college which attracts such great crowds should not provide adequate facilities for the purchase of tickets at the grounds...
...Egyptian buildings. By the aid of numerous photographs, the lecturer showed further that the forms of the columns and the entablature were derived from earlier wooden forms in use in the palaces of the heroic age. The well-known column between the two lions in the Lion's Gate differs but slightly from the earliest extant Doric columns; and in fact quite recently a column with flutings has actually been discovered in one of the ancient beehive tombs in Mycenae...
...members of the Harvard Republican Club meet at the Harvard Gate to march in a body to Mayor Bancroft's. The Band and Drum Corps will be in attendance...
Professor Dorpfeld, with the aid of many pictures, first described Tiryns-its mighty walls and galleries; its richly adorned palace, which recalls the descriptions of Homer; and finally the destruction of the citadel. Passing to Mycenae, he carried his audience through the well-known gate of the Lions to the graves of its ancient kings, and described the marvellous treasure found there by Schliemann, and then mounting to the summit of the citadel gave a brief account of the royal palace. He next described the bee-hive tombs, outside the citadel, whose massive proportions rouse the wonder of the modern...
Hinkey, Chauncey, f.b. f.b., Gate...