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Wellesley, in fact, is the scene of no small number of fertility rites in honor of the coming of the prime equinox. A week from Saturday brings the colorful and symbolic Tree Day exercises when the young firm saplings are planted in the shadow of the Tower and beside the Lake...

Author: By Erik Amfithcatrof, Edicard J. Coughlin, Michael J. Halberstam., Cynthia M. Reich, and Malcolm D. Rivkin, S | Title: Spring Tempers Activities, Fashions | 5/1/1952 | See Source »

...baby World Trees and a World Bird will settle themselves on the Harkness Center lawn at 8:30 a.m. today in an Arbor Day celebration. The site is already graced by one World Tree, which was honored by Fertility Rites at the vernal equinox...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 6 World Trees, 1 World Bird to Descend on Harkness Commons | 4/27/1951 | See Source »

Spring yesterday came to Harvard Square. While some people like Ellen Krohn '53 and Menso Boissevain '52 welcomed the new season in esthetic reverie, others turned to the more symbolic rituals to observe the vernal equinox...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So Spring Is Here... | 3/22/1951 | See Source »

...yesterday, the sacred ceremony of consecrating the soil with bull's blood was performed to the solemn notes of "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard," played by the Harvard Band. High Medicine Man Thomas A. Lehrer 4G was chanting "Hail Gropius, unorthodox, we hail thee at the vernal equinox," in front of the World Tree. Others were absorbed in contemplation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So Spring Is Here... | 3/22/1951 | See Source »

Late last night, Lehrer led a group of fellow followers to the tree and draped greenery over its uplifted arms. When the monumental sculpture was erected, plans were made to polish it with Bon Ami each year at the vernal equinox...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boys and Girls Gambol Around World Tree As Fertility Rites Usher in Vernal Equinox | 3/21/1951 | See Source »

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