Meyer Gate

Meyer Gate
Meyer Gate
	Picture of the Meyer Gate from outside Harvard Yard.
	Location in Greater Boston
General information
Type	Gate
Location	Harvard University
Town or city	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Country	United States
Coordinates	42°22′32″N 71°07′00″W / 42.375639°N 71.116715°W
Named for	George von Lengerke Meyer
Opened	1901

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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[1] "Enter to grow in wisdom". 15 December 2005. Archived from the original on 10 December 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2019.

[2] "Change on the Meyer Gate. | News | The Harvard Crimson". Archived from the original on 2022-02-13. Retrieved 2019-11-18.

[3] "The history of Harvard gates". 23 May 2016. Archived from the original on 26 December 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2019.

[4] "Meyer Gate | News | The Harvard Crimson". Archived from the original on 2022-02-13. Retrieved 2019-11-18.

[5] "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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