Its educational credentials and illustrious history are well known, but Harvard University is also the site of 25 remarkable ornamental gates, designed more than a century ago by the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White. Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic and Harvard alumnus Blair Kamin discusses the architectural intentions of these portals, as well as the human drama behind their fruition—tales of wealth, power, and institutional and personal ambition. The book is rounded out with color photographs and Roger Erickson's detailed sketches of the gates, plus a three-dimensional aerial map of Harvard Yard.