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THE UNIVERSITY GATE Patronius, A learned old man of grace in the Letters, Looked out of the window, past students on side-walks, Past the tree-shadowed place where his mentors Had strolled with him along with students on side-walks, And looked on to the great university gate. “I am reminded,” he went on, The sun striking his shaggy white head And his voice unusually warm, “I am reminded, somehow, of the Brandenburg Gate, Of the blonde, young princes marching out to their fate, With a bravado of arms, and brazen alarms, And a sense of achieving the great. “Or Mycenae’s Lion Gate of the Trojan days, With Agememnon and “The Wrath” going their ways Out, out, to vanquish their Aegean foes, With a strength of purpose from which high valor rose. “For so it was in my student days, We saw the Graduation Gate as a challenge to raise A thousand dreams from the worst of us, And we strode through the gate with a cheerfulness. “But that ivy arch,” spoke the trembling sage, “Might be the portals of doom, to hear my students rage. They bluster of wars and the controlled security, The latest draft and honored ambiguity Until I see black fear astride that arch!” Patronius, A quieter, tired old scholar, Sat with the fading sun and to me Spoke one final dream of The Scholar. “Were we, in that happier, unchanged old day, So naive, so mistaken, (as I have heard them say,) When we reasoned the prime purpose of a beckoning gate, Was for the passing through, where no man can wait?” Neil B. Olson pronounced, Pa-tron-ius, significant only as a classical name.
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vity the seniors attended the Baccalaureate Service in Goddard Chapel on Sunday, June 6th — the Sun¬ day before graduation. On Wednesday they en¬ joyed the traditional Moonlight Cruise and Dance on The Boston Belle, sailing out into Boston Harbor, on to Nantasket Beach for an hour’s stop-over and then back to the Boston pier. Tufts Night at the Pops was the agenda for Thursday evening and once again the seniors were thrilled to the fine music of Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra. Dr. Thompson Stone led the Tufts Chorus in a medley of Tufts song favorites. Friday was Class Day. After the Class Day Spread the Seniors adjourned to the lawn in front of the Bookstore and were presented the Class Day Exercises. Seniors and their dates enjoyed not only the fine catered meal but also the humorous speeches constituting the Class Will and Tree Orations. Louis XIV Ballroom was the scene for The Se¬ nior Prom, where the seniors danced to the pleasant strains of Freddie Sateriale’s Orchestra. The Prom was by no means the end to the day’s activities as many beach parties were well attended. At 3:00 P.M. on Sunday, June 13, 1954 trustees, faculty, students and guests trod the traditional route for the Commencement Exercises.
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