Word: tree
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...class of 1883 have contributed funds for the planting of four new elms in the Yard. These trees will be put in position this week under the direction of the Hicks nursery crew. The elms, which were selected by Mr. H. J. Koehler, the tree expert, have trunks about eight inches in diameter, and will be pruned to a height of 25 or 30 feet. It is calculated that their rate of growth, if conditions are favorable, will be about a foot and a half a year in height, and three feet in spread...
...come in the afternoon, when the Seniors, the three lower classes, and the graduates back for reunions will gather in the Yard for the monster parade to the Stadium. Before starting, the class of 1914, led by their officers, will march around the Yard, cheering each building and the Tree. At the Stadium James Ripley Osgood Perkins will deliver the Ivy Oration...
...Seniors assemble in Sever 11 for the "Tree" exercises...
...that so much attention has been given to the brown-tailed moth, the elm-tree panther (or whatever it is,) and other pests in the Yard, why not rid it of that human pest called the insurance drummer? He stands around, enters Sever, and our very class-rooms in his impudence, he pounces on instructors and students, dreaded by all, a babbling symbol of the imminence of death. Can we not even in the privacy of our work-rooms eschew the cringing advances of this infernal nuisance? Is it not within the authority of our excellent "Yard Cops" to expel...
Yesterday afternoon the old elm just east of Harvard Hall was pulled down. The tree was estimated by experts to be about 75 years old. It measured three feet in diameter and stood eighty feet high, being one of the largest and oldest in the Yard...