Word: elms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which had been its neighbors for a century or more. To the south of it the square brick dormitories and the befriend hall of the university helped to shut out the distant view. But the west windows gave a broad outlook across the common, beyond which the historical "Washington elm" and two companions in line with it spread their leaves in summer and their networks in winter. And far away rose the hills that bounded the view, with the glimmer here and there of the white walls or the illuminated casements of some embowered. half-hidden villa. Eastwardly also...
...Photographs of New Law School, Longfellow's House, and Washington Elm from Soule Photograph...
...photographs of New Law School, Longfellow's House, and Washington Elm from Soule Photograph...
...then when the pitying students helped him to it) and three large cannon which were captured from the French at Quebec and Ticonderoga, in the French and Indian wars. At the further end of the common, just in front of the Shepard Memorial (Cong.) church, is the old Washington elm, with the stone slab before it, on which we read, "Under this tree Washington first took command of the American army, July 3d, 1775." We continue our way up Garden street to Concord avenue. On our right are, or were, the old arsenals, of which some have been torn down...
...discontinued and gave away to its occupation by votaries of the larger college sports. In 1864, October 12, the "University Base Ball Club" was formed. We are informed that "in the spring of 1863 the Cambridge City Government granted the use of part of the common near the Washington Elm for practice ground" and that "this was used until the spring of 1864". The old ground on the common was then given up and the Delta now partially occupied by Memorial Hall was taken possession of by the permission of the college faculty. In the spring of "65 the 'Varsity...