Meyer Gate
Meyer Gate | |
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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. The gate has a traditional design and borders the Harvard Yard and The Plaza. It is named after George von Lengerke Meyer.
Inscription
The Meyer gate features a plaque with a quotation by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1836, which reads:
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.