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Sophomores can buy their tickets for the Yale game today. Seniors and juniors have bought out aisles B and C of the Yale Bowl's Portal 1, plus much of aisles B and C of Portal 2. A portal corresponds to about two and a half of the Stadium sections...
...West Germans-"Germans at one table," was their slogan-in the hope of promoting themselves as the champions of German unity. East German President Wilhelm Pieck in person attended the opening session in East Berlin's graceful Gothic Marienkirche (he tried to slip in through the center portal usually reserved for brides, bishops and, in the old days, the Kaiser, but was hurriedly eased over to a side door...
...month tuition, slipping on bright school sweaters with big block Ps, and learning the school yells. Sample, adopted from the old "Give 'em the ax": "Give 'em the Word, the Word, the Word." Some paid $5 for the academy's first and only yearbook, The Portal, a tome which explained Brother Tom's role in the world: "After scanning the honor roll of the obedient, the eyes of God rested on the name of C. Thomas Patten . . . Thus was born God's businessman of the hour . . . Business adventures for God are still taking form...
Mass Hall is not the only relic of past executives' inspiration of tradition. Behind the Widener Library, facing Massachusetts Avenue, stands the largest gate in the College. Originally, it was built to be part of the Grand Entrance to the Yard.. An avenue running from the portal to the Charles River was planned, but the Corporation wouldn't buy the property the street was to be built on. The plan was temporarily postponed, but when Massachusetts Avenue was built, plans for the Grand Entrance had to be scrapped...
...Just as we look on a university education as a portal and preparation for life," he continued, "so we ought to view life itself from the perspective of preparing us for something after death. Man is like an iceberg; the larger, invisible part is more important that that which is visible...