Word: elms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge dedicated ten tons of granite to the maintenance of a myth. The Washington Monument in the Common near Agassiz crowns a century's debate over the Washington Elm legend. It was under this Elm that George Washington supposedly took command of the Continental Army in 1773. This account, however, holds up little better than the Elm itself which rotted away thirty years...
...monument shows Washington on horseback with sword in hand, facing the ranks of the Continental Army. Here under the Elm, he legend asserts, he declared himself Commander-in-Chief. This is borne out by a diary describing that historical day. "Discovered" just in time for Cambridge's centennial, the diary depicts the whole episode, minus a few frills. But historians have since proved this account a forgery, written to document the celebration. Actual accounts paint a different picture of the day. The Continental troops, sick and ragged, were entrenched at the other end of Cambridge, unable to march. Washington himself...
...riot broke out after two nearby high schools were dismissed Friday afternoon when someone threw a snowball and used the window of a fish truck on dormitory-lined Elm St., the scene of Yale's 1952 "ice cream" disturbance...
There was a crisp wind blowing up Tokyo Bay and Vag watched the palm trees some Admiral's wife ordered planted bending crazily in the chilling breeze. Somehow, thought Vag, those should be elm trees. Funny thing how these cool autumn days in Japan brought back memories of Cambridge in the fall--how on cold November days Vag speculated whether or not he should shift from chinos to gray flannels. Vag remembered that, of course, he never did. Even those Japanese kids were beginning to resemble. Harvard Square urchins. But, decided Vag, the propositions they were screaming were even more...
...page discussion of the Boston Post to the Daily Worker in New York asking for their views? I'll wager a one year's subscription to the American Mercury Magazine for the CRIMSON Editorial Board that the Daily Worker will approve of your stand. Kenneth D. Robertson, Jr. '29 Elm Street, Concord, Mass...