Word: elm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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James Russell Lowell was a product of Harvard, brought up in an atmosphere which unconsciously makes for a strong and enduring devotion to the nation. All one need do is look around him to find where Harvard gets these traditions. The Washington Elm, Soldiers Field, Memorial Hall, are mute testimonials of the part Harvard and Cambridge have played in the national crises of the past...
Yale is rapidly perfecting plans which call for a large addition to the campus in order to create a special freshman campus on the square bounded by High, Elm, York and Library streets. On this great quadrangle, dormitories will be built with accommodations sufficient to take care of freshman classes for many years to come. It is proposed to make these buildings the most modern and best constructed in any American university plant. It is understood that the tenants of the buildings which must be torn down have been notified that their leases will not be renewed after June...
...Congress avenue; automobiles east bound on Derby avenue, desiring to go to the Bowl, will find parking space on Central avenue, the centre of the city may be reached only via Forrest street and Congress avenue; automobiles desiring to leave the centre of the city for the Bowl use Elm street, Whalley avenue. Fountain street and McKinley avenue, to the parking space; automobiles will be slowed to run north only on College street between Crown and Elm streets. Returning from the game, automobiles desiring to got to the centre of the city return via Whalley avenue and Elm street using...
...suspended in the air for an indefinite space of time, as if there was no hurry at all about their failing back. They seemed to cross and criss-cross in all directions, now obscuring half the sky. Gradually the mass assumed the shape of the upper portion of an elm tree, and then began to subside. Then could be heard the smashing sound of the tree branches as this mass of rock and earth fell back with the crushing force of an avalanche. Everybody ducked and plunged head first into the shelters...
...many know even the location of the Washington Elm, of Oliver Wendell Holmes birthplace, of Wadsworth House, of Longfellow's old home? How many realize that there is a sacred significance in the name that has been degraded to "Mem" or that the title "Soldiers Field" was intended to be more than a mere designation of Harvard's athletic grounds...