Word: gateways
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last number of the American Architec has a drawing of the new Harvard gateway...
...thousand dollars for a gateway at Harvard": and the yard in darkness, the library in darkness, and hundreds of men forced to board away from the college yard because of a lack of dormitories. The members of the university are, indeed, grateful for any improvement of the university property, even if that improvement be the gilding of the Gore Hall steeples. But this is a practical age. It is true that "we cannot live by bread alone," but bread is quite necessary. If money is to be left to the university, why cannot some benefactor not gain immortality for himself...
...leaving University Hall, the procession moved along the principal avenues within the college grounds, through the gateway between Massachusetts and Harvard Halls, and, passing through the lines of the escort formed by the undergraduates, entered the Congregational Church. The galleries of the edifice had been reserved for the ladies, and, after the entrance of the procession, every part of the building was filled by a crowded audience. After a voluntary on the organ, the Rev. Dr. Ripley offered a solemn and fervent prayer. Although more than eighty years of age, he spoke in a clear and powerful voice. Like...
...four Gospels and the book of Acts of the Apostles, next meet one's attention. The largest, if not the finest college is Trinity, which claims to be the largest in Europe. Ex tending on both sides of the street it is entered through the fine King's Gateway, near which stands the statue of Henry VIII. Within is a large court or "quad," called Neville's Fountain, bounded by the lodge of the master and his assistants. This lodge is filled with works of art and possesses a treasure in the shape of its Gothic Hall. Sir Christopher Wren...
...shoot at the birds. He trusted to the inaccuracy of the collegiate marksmanship for the preservation of his turkeys and being very successful. managed to make a large profit on his investment. Col. Higginson writes that one of his earliest recollect s is of standing at his fathers gateway, on what is now Kirkiand street in Cambridge and seeing the forms of young men climbing, swinging and twirling aloft in the open play ground opposite." This open lot was the only gymnasium which Harvard then possessed, and although it was quite a primitive affair compared with the present Hemmenway gymnasium...