premise: it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor
hypothesis: a specific type of splendor is fall of man (or Fall of Man), defined as '(Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death' .