Johnston Gate. Translated from Latin, the inscription on the tablet at left reads: "Samuel Johnston of Chicago · Graduate in the year 1855 · Who was born in Cincinnati in the year 1833 · Lived 53 years · By his will he ordered this."
Each Harvard Commencement Day for several hundred years, the sheriffs of Middlesex and Suffolk Counties have arrived at Harvard Yard on horseback, preparatory to the Middlesex Sheriff's ritual calling of the celebrants to order. It has become traditional for them to enter via the Johnston Gate.[1][2]
Tablets flanking the gate's exterior
Referencesedit
^Sweeney, Sarah (May 26, 2010). "Commencement wonderment". Harvard Gazette.
^Cromie, William J. (May 31, 2007). "Commencement feasting, customs, color date to medieval Europe". Harvard Gazette.
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