n an otherwise unremarkable spring day in 1915, William T. Foster, Reed’s first President, strolls toward Sallyport, lost in thought: where to guide his nascent College, newly troubled by adversity? Life is a course, he muses, charted between knowledge and ignorance, light and dark, truth and fiction—indeed, between Lux and Nox, the two grotesques guarding the portal as he enters.

And it is this question, posed precisely between these two poles, precisely as he enters the portal, that bends the fabric of time toward an answer and propels him out the other side… into 2026!

Your task is to help him return to his time by deciphering 11 clues to 11 locations around Reed Campus, enjoying a rather pleasant tour while collecting one letter at each locale. Then, gathering together those letters, you have only to unscramble them into a four-word phrase {Tap here to review} and you have saved the day. But more: the first 50 to show their work at Prexy earn a special keepsake reward—and yes, boundless glory.

Start your quest by deciphering where this clue leads: