Word: arborists
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...have strained their puny intellects thinking of ways to get rid of the sturdy trunk and graceful branches that obscured the building's view of Elsie's. Compers were asked to invent unique techniques for destroying nature's beauty. Lampoon officers made an annual tradition of asking the city arborist to remove the tree...
...Former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, on the city's removal of the locust tree formerly located outside the Harvard Lampoon's One Freedom Square headquarters. The Lampoon president denied any association with the tree's demise. But the Cambridge arborist said members of the semi-secret society, which periodically publishes a humor magazine, contributed to the gradual deterioration of the former Mt. Auburn St. landmark by attacking it last year. Over 140 axe marks were found in the tree when it was felled, some of which were six inches deep...
...Cambridge City Arborist Jack R. Kelley...
...tree finally fell to the blades of the Cambridge Landscape Company at about 3:30 p.m, after what City Arborist Jack R. Kelley described as a systematic campaign of arboreal torture on the part of Lampoon members that had led to its demise...
...doesn't have anything to do with us," Beckerman said. "I don't think it's even possible to call public works or the city arborist and say, `please cut down this tree...