Word: gates
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rink may be reached by entering the gate opposite Newell Boathouse...
...home, and the result has been the establishment of elaborate training quarters away from the atmosphere and routine of university life, where rowing is no longer a recreation for men engaged in college work, but where for nearly a month every year they live to row, supported by gate receipts from commercialized athletics, or by the generosity of opulent patrons. The size of the rowing budget is thus enormously and unnecessarily increased, and rowing itself suffers from being considered a drain on the athletic treasury, and the beneficiary of 'productive' athletic activities...
Tickets at 50 cents each, on sale at the gate, will admit an automobile and its entire sparty to the parking space. Regular tickets will then admit to the field. Vehicles may also be left on the Speedway near the Boat House...
...practised, however, in connection with the extravagance that often attends such necessities as training tables and transportation of teams. Of this Dean Briggs observes in his 1911 report: "Taxicabs as the sole means of getting about, costly dinners with wines and cigars,--all to be paid for out of gate money,--these things belong to that theory of training which furnishes free automobile rides and theatre trips as a relief to the overtaxed nervous systems of the University squads...
Junior Class elections at the Lodge of the Class of '77 Gate...