The Palaestra

wrestling school

The house of the Grove: the university gymnasium of 1903, a square court of deep yellow sand enclosed by a plain Doric colonnade of limestone, with seminar rooms behind the columns. Over the entrance, cut in 1961, is the Grove's answer to Plato's door: let no one ignorant of wrestling enter. Plato himself was a wrestler, the Grove reminds everyone who doubts it, and his name was given him by his trainer. The logicians train on the sand at first light in silence, because the Grove's rule is that ...

Located in The Möbius Academy.