Word: elms
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Every person is but a passing shadow, one of many similar shadows cast by similar persons. Men die by thousands, but are not mourned by the mass. Their places as objects merely become vacant to be at once and silently filled by others. The death of the venerable elm on the common causes more general sorrow than the little child crushed beneath its falling branch...
During the summer the monument which is to mark Soldiers Field was erected. It is of marble and stands under an elm tree in front of the Locker Building. The following inscription is engraved upon the front...
...without its meaning to us that under yonder elm Washington first took command of the American Army and that the Massachusetts Legislature driven from the State House by the cannon of the British troops, met in the college chapel, or that the College having waited for a century and a half before conferring the degree of Doctor of Laws to men outside her own number, elected George Washington as the first to whom this order should be given. Or to take a later scene, in the early days of the Civil War in 1861, the diary of the treasurer...
...later history. This letter unfortunately was received with no comment and the subject was dropped. The loss suffered by most of us in our lack of knowledge of the historic interest connected with even the various college buildings is much to be lamented. How many of us know which elm in the Yard is the "Rebellion Tree," or why it was so called? How many of us are aware that Lafayette was received by President Kirkland on the steps of University Hall? What do we know of the life of the Harvard student in colonial times, of the old college...
...society for upper classmen has been formed at Princeton, called the Princeton Elm Club...