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With a sense of obligation towards its wayward and spoiled child, CRIMSON foster parents have decided that the offspring shall henceforth be known as the Elm Tree Society. The elm Tree, we are told, was once the gathering place in the Yard for dissident rebels in the student body...
...there be no confusion on this matter: diplomas in English are not isolated evil, but symptoms of a growing blight, a Dutch Elm disease of the soul which starts by ravaging one noble custom and then infects all, until it has denuded the landscape of that which gave it beauty; a fire, which leaves one great oak a smouldering heap of common ashes and then disappears underground, slowly to burn its hellish fire through a subterranean network of roots until it bursts forth once again as a great blaze, consuming all and leaving nothing...
...work of bulldozers and steam shovels will mean a substantial reduction in the city's tax base. Estimates on the size of this surgery range from $181,000 for the Lee Street route to $372,000 for Brookline Street and $376,000 for River Street-Elm Street. On the Brookline plan alone, engineers expect to demolish about 40 factory buildings...
...Rockwell might have painted it, showing an oversize white clapboard house with a wide front porch, through the window an upright piano, an upright father singing in his rich baritone, an energetic mother doing the spring cleaning for the second time that day, and beside the house a tall elm tree with a tall young girl high in its branches eating an apple and reading a book...
East of the Lee Street, the River Street-Elm Street route would cross the river at approximately the same point, but would branch off to the east of Central Square. This route, also, might be harmful to renewal prospects. After crossing Massachusetts Avenue, it merges on the blueprints with a third route under consideration, Brookline Street, the favorite of the Cambridge Planning Board, the Chronicle, and various citizen groups...