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	42.375639°N 71.116715°W / 42.375639; -71.116715
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.

The Ralph Waldo Emerson plaque on the West side of the Meyer gate