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In 1951 the university celebrated its five hundredth birthday (it is the fourth oldest university in Britain) and these gates were erected by the graduates` General Council in 1954 to mark that occasion. The gates` piers have the dates 1451 and 1951, and are topped by a lion and a unicorn, echoing the design of the old Lion and Unicorn staircase. The gates feature the university`s mace and the names of twenty-eight well-known people associated with the university. The names are ordered chronologically from the base up, the five levels representing the five particular centuries (fifteenth to nineteenth) to which these people belonged.
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The Quincentenery Gates stand on University Avenue and their design celebrates many people who were connected with the university over its first five hundred years. |
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The two side gates contain panels showing the university`s four nations. The walls which flank these smaller gates bear the words Universitas Glasguensis and the university`s motto Via Veritas Vita (`The Way, the Truth, the Life`). |
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