Meyer Gate
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Meyer Gate | |
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![]() Picture of the Meyer Gate from outside Harvard Yard. | |
Location inGreater Boston | |
General information | |
Type | Gate |
Location | Harvard University |
Town or city | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 42°22′32″N71°07′00″W/ 42.375639°N 71.116715°W |
Named for | George von Lengerke Meyer |
Opened | 1901 |
Meyer Gateis a 1901 gate on theHarvard Universitycampus, inCambridge, Massachusetts,United States.[1][2]The gate has a traditional design and borders theHarvard YardandThe Plaza.[3]It is named afterGeorge von Lengerke Meyer.[4]
Inscription
[edit]The Meyer gate features a plaque with a quotation byRalph Waldo Emersonin 1836, which reads:[5]
I went to the College Jubillee on the 8th instant. A noble & well thought of anniversary. The pathos of the occasion was extreme & not much noted by the speakers. Cambridge at any time is full of ghosts; but on that day the anointed eye saw the crowd of spirits that mingled with the procession in the vacant spaces, year by year, as the classes proceeded; and then the far longer train of ghosts that followed the Company, of the men that wore before us the college honors & the laurels of the state — the long winding train reaching back into eternity.
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Emerson_plaque_on_Meyer_gate.jpg/220px-Emerson_plaque_on_Meyer_gate.jpg)
References
[edit]- ^"Enter to grow in wisdom".15 December 2005.Archivedfrom the original on 10 December 2019.Retrieved18 November2019.
- ^"Change on the Meyer Gate. | News | The Harvard Crimson".Archivedfrom the original on 2022-02-13.Retrieved2019-11-18.
- ^"The history of Harvard gates".23 May 2016.Archivedfrom the original on 26 December 2019.Retrieved18 November2019.
- ^"Meyer Gate | News | The Harvard Crimson".Archivedfrom the original on 2022-02-13.Retrieved2019-11-18.
- ^"Oblique view of Ralph Waldo Emerson plaque".Harvard Property Information Resource Center. 5 June 2015.Archivedfrom the original on 17 January 2022.Retrieved17 January2022.