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iEl ignrtal WW? :5 e , K L PORTAL is one of the entrances into the Yosemite Valley. It is the gateway through which by far the larger number of travellers pass into the valley; the open door to one of natures wonderlands. Through El Portal come three classes of tourists. Those of the flrst class have heard of the glories of the Yosemite. They are ready to be surprised. They take everything at a highly appraised value. All is entrancing. They are in continual amazement. They represent the super- ficial. The second class is composed of tourists quite the opposite. Almost everything is disappointing to them. El Capitan is not so high nor so imposing as they expected to 6nd it; the Bridal Veil Fall and all the other long leaps of water are not so bewitching; Mirror Lake does not throw back so clear an image as its picture shows. There is dust, thick dust to plocl through; the trails are narrow, steep and rocky; to get to the heights one has to trudge on foot or ride a slow stepping mule. These tourists are fault-finders. H CD r J egg KQLJ JG F36; The third class is neither surprised nor disappointed. The peaks, perhaps, do not seem so lofty and the waterfalls so high as they expected. Getting about is often weari- some, and the meals are not always the best. But there is a conviction, based on the experience of thousands of travellers, that here in this valley the Almighty has revealed Eight
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himself in a truly marvelous way. Deep calleth unto deep. There is quiet and con- templative response. For the First class there is not much hope. The shallow soil of superficiality is difficult to deepen because of the hard stratum underneath. Yet sometimes the emotions are so stirred as to blast a way through the outer crust into the very soul. The fault-finders are not so impervious. Sometimes their fault-fmcling is the result of indifference or laziness or some other unlovely habit. They frequently awaken to what they have missed when it is too late and after they are unable to retrace their steps. The quiet and meditative are those who have patience and faith, who are ready to wait before nature until she opens up her secrets. To them revelations come, and they more and more find them- selves in familiar fields. 50 it is that the doors open into life. There are other ways into the Yosemite, but El Portal is the most accessible. Likewise there are various doors into life, but the College, we believe, is the open door which no man can shut. Through this door come the superficial. College means a great deal to them because they have been told it would mean a great deal. They do not discover this fact for themselves. They are superlative in their expressions. One wonders how they came or why they wanted to come. Some- times they wake up after two or three years, but usually they fall by the wayside. Through the open door come also the critics and fault-finclers. They have on the proverbial blue glasses. They imagine the sinister side; with them light passes, but shade remains. The pity of the fault-finder is that he so frequently discovers himself when it is too late, when he cannot recover the daylight, or return to the dew of the morning. The quiet and meditative come through the open door with all the buoyancy of the first class and the alertness of the second. Their buoyance will touch deepness as well as breadth, however, and their alertness will be characterized by a desire to arrive at proper values as well as to be brilliant. They will criticise, but their criticism will be con- structive. They will find fault, but with the intention of bettering conditions. They would not have a motive merely for talking or for keeping others stirred up. Above all, they will undertake to find their hearings, to secure a sense of proportion, and to appreciate the opportunity to come close to the springs of knowledge and life. College will be the open door to lead them into the inner sanctuary of the soul, and thence out into the world and service. WILLIAM W. GUTH. '1 im numm mluwuumummum lllllHlItlJ 1mm ummmu nlmmummlln r ' r .i .llllt lull, wlulllllllllll
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