Meyer Gate

Gate at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

42°22′32″N 71°07′00″W / 42.375639°N 71.116715°W / 42.375639; -71.116715Named forGeorge von Lengerke MeyerOpened1901

Meyer Gate is a 1901 gate on the Harvard University campus, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.^[1]^[2] The gate has a traditional design and borders the Harvard Yard and The Plaza.^[3] It is named after George von Lengerke Meyer.^[4]

Inscription

The Meyer gate features a plaque with a quotation by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 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.

References

^ "Enter to grow in wisdom". 15 December 2005. Archived from the original on 10 December 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
^ "Change on the Meyer Gate. | News | The Harvard Crimson". Archived from the original on 2022-02-13. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
^ "The history of Harvard gates". 23 May 2016. Archived from the original on 26 December 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
^ "Meyer Gate | News | The Harvard Crimson". Archived from the original on 2022-02-13. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
^ "Oblique view of Ralph Waldo Emerson plaque". Harvard Property Information Resource Center. 5 June 2015. Archived from the original on 17 January 2022. Retrieved 17 January 2022.

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