Word: tree
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second and final performance of "The Pageant of the Tree," which is being given for the benefit of the Fathers' and Mothers' Club of Boston, will take place in the Boston Opera House this afternoon at 2 o'clock. It is one of the most elaborate productions of its kind ever undertaken in Boston for in carrying out the program some six hundred people will appear on the stage. Twenty students of the University are taking part in the production...
...central thought of the pageant is derived from the custom of tree worship practiced by the ancients. Starting with the crude and superstitious worship of the early Norsemen, the practice is followed down through the ecclesiastical history of the various tribes and peoples that inhabited Europe before the time of Christ, and finally ends with the springing into life of our own Christmas tree. The program will be divided into two parts. In the first, groups of people representing the different nationalities of the ancient world will appear, each group carrying its national tree of life. Dancing and acting representing...
...away. The immense mass, weighing hundreds of tons, then starts on its swift course down the chasm, tearing everything before it. One picture showed how a slide had cut a straight, narrow path directly through a forest, and in one instance had driven a log completely through a larger tree. The momentum of these slides coming from such a height and in such great mass is almost incalculable...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Review of Park's Report on the Otago District, New Zealand Geological Survey," Professor Davis. "Tree Planting on the Great Plains." Mr. K. McR. Clark. Mineralogical Lecture Room...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Review of Park's Report on the Otago District, New Zealand Geological Survey." Professor Davis. "Tree Planting on the Great Plains." Mr. K. McR. Clark. Mineralogical Lecture Room...