Word: elm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...college elm which for over a hundred years has stood, in the quadrangle between Harvard Hall, Hollis Hall, and Holden Chapel will not be entirely destroyed. For several years the branches have been gradually cut off as the brown tail moths and beetles attacked it until today only the trunk itself remains. This has been scraped and after being well-oiled and painted will have ivy planted about...
...many years the Class Day exercises now held in the Stadium took place around the elm although some ten years ago they were transferred to the plot about the John Harvard statue, and later to the Stadium. In the days of the tree exercises the Seniors appeared in football clothes to scramble for wreaths of flowers high in its branches. Many small wreaths were part way up, and one large one above all which was the prize...
Four of the old elm trees in the Yard were cut down during the summer. Everything possible is being done to preserve those trees which are still alive. A number of them were trimmed during the summer and the deadwood is now being removed from the remaining trees. The dead trees and decayed wood was found to afford breeding places for such pests as the bark beetle and the leopard moth and so the utmost care has been exercised in removing as much of this as possible...
...class of 1912 will be the last to hold its Commencement festivities under the elms. Steps toward making a more beautiful Yard have been taken in earnest, and after Class Day every elm in the Quadrangle will be cut down, in order to make room for the 64 small red oaks which are now being transplanted. The aged trees have not improved during the past few years and this spring only one or two show any signs of life. The authorities have decided that the elms are hopeless and that they must be removed...
...work begun last year of cutting down the dead elm tres in the Yard and transplanting in their places young oaks which are as yet practically immune from destructive pests, will begin again immediately. As no effective means has been found of extirpating the insects, and as the trees are rapidly dying, this is the only alternative. A large number of oaks have been ordered from a nursery in West Chester, Pennsylvania, some of them four inches in diameter...