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...Crimson jumped out of the gate with five first quarter goals and never looked back. Along with its strong offensive performance in the first half came a stifling defensive effort, as Harvard held the Saints to just one goal before the intermission...
...young men from Missouri, standing at the Gate between the old Yard and Memorial Hall, ask one: “Where is the pretty part of campus?” Astonished and offended, one tries to argue that our surroundings are hardly displeasing. But these friends wish for ivy-covered walls and grasses of perfect British green. They are not content with anything one has to offer. One leaves feeling disconcerted, but the visitors from the Show-Me state are just the first to cast one in the role one was to fill ever after, each time one crossed...
...this country’s foremost tourist attractions, one still doesn’t think that anyone expects these hallowed halls to be churning out the answer to the secret of life. Until that happens, one’s understanding of the phrase inscribed on Dexter Gate (“Enter to grow in wisdom/Depart to better serve thy country and thy kind”) is pretty straightforward: Enter to expand your knowledge of useless trivia. Depart to better promote the wonders of this University to the world. Seriously, this place owes one a stipend as a tour guide...
...walk up Unter den Linden to the Brandenburg Gate, and the great arch reminds you of Mother and Dad and how they eloped to Stillwater, Okla., and got married. (What year was that?) You walk into Parliament to meet your friend Matthew who grew up in a good leftist family and was made a peer by the Labour government, and you love to address him as Milord because it makes him wince, which reminds you of your history teacher Mr. Faust, and before long you are remembering Mr. Hochstetter and Miss Story and Miss Melby, who are clearer...
...complaining about how far we’ve been obliged to walk. We memorize shuttle schedules and keep the shuttle’s number in our cell phones. We are not above taking taxis to the Quad. On weekend nights, hordes of inadequately-clad undergraduates throng the Johnston Gate shuttle stop...