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To lump these pillars of respectability in my life and in my community with the few bad seeds that slip through the cracks of the organization is a grave disservice to the thousands of men and women who willingly give their evenings, weekends, and dollars to an organization whose core goal is to mold impressionable boys into upstanding, moral men.
As you continue driving east, you actually travel underneath the runway, which is supported on huge pillars above you — a novel (not to mention rather sobering) sensation both for those above and below.
These two pillars of legal education--the so-called "Socratic method" and the "case method"--were both pioneered at Harvard and survive there less changed than anywhere else.
The entrance is marked by two huge torii gates, their pillars made from 1,700-year-old cypress trees.
It is thought that large wooden doors were fitted between the pillars and that these could be removed to create a stoa (open fronted arcade) if the King wished it.