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...parade streamed on-past the Common where the old Elm Tree used to stand; up Beacon Hill by the State House (Paul Revere got his riding orders near by); down School Street, within hail of the scene of the Boston Massacre; in sight of Faneuil Hall, where the Boston Tea Party began-past the landmarks of a simpler time, when men knew beyond argument that democracy was worth fighting...
Harvard's thousand freshmen will find themselves living for the most part in the historic elm-shaded Yard which until nine years ago was the sanctum of the Senior Class. Here they will exist as a unit more or less separated from the rest of the college with their lives centering in the Harvard Union, combination dining room, pool parlor, dance hall, and library...
Fleischauer, who is an expert on the Dutch Elm Discase, spends his summers climbing Elm trees for the Government Dutch Elm Disease Control Committee. Feeling that he needed practice, he attached a half-inch hemp rope to a third floor radiator, let it down the stairwell and began his ascent while fearful room-mates clustered around...
...Yale News crashed through at midgame with their second journalistic soup of the day, a fake issue of the Crimson announcing that President of Chicago, had been named to replace him. Earlier in the day, the Elm City typographers had announced Harlow's resignation...
...years ago it found one: neat, elm-shaded Flemington (pop.: 2,700), site of the notorious Hauptmann trial. With a consistent assessment policy, a tax rate that seldom fluctuated, little debt, conservative little Flemington, near New Jersey's western border, looked good to harassed Standard. Into the tiny law office of sedate, greying George K. Large (Princeton '99; former country judge) went a huge new safe to hold the oil firm's records of incorporation. Up went the town's ratables as Standard was assessed $45,000,000 in personal property, paid...