Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spencerian parabolas into their copy books, played "duck on a rock" at recess, spelled out the stories in McGuffey's; then they walked home on dusty roads, swinging their book straps and talking to each other, stopping to cut their initials into fence rails or the bark of a tree. The songs they sang, the books they read, the things they learned made them make the U. S. into whatever...
...Washington elm was famous as being a particularly fine specimen of a tree, a reproduction of it on the spot where it stood might be appropriate, though slightly blsarre. But the more logical feeling would be that the historical event, from association with which the tree had glory thrust upon it, is the thing chiefly to be remembered. The old elm had the dignity of a genuine souvenir, which characteristic is not likely to be present in an effigy in concrete. As a link with the past an artificial tree might be novel but scarcely compelling. If the spot...
Blanchard has a bill pending before the Legislature proposing a suitable Washington Eim memorial. To this bill he has just added the suggestion that the memorial include a replica of the tree as it appeared a few years before its removal, a replica to be similar to work done by Dionecio Rodriquez of Mexico City, who has reproduced oak and cedar trees in cement for the park departments of Houston and San Antonio, Texas...
Blanchard said that the City of Cambridge has given its official sanction to a Washington Eim memorial, and has placed a tablet marking the spot where the tree stood. "There is a real danger," Blanchard stated to a CRIMSON representative, "of losing our Washington traditions in Cambridge by a failure to erect a suitable memorial. There seems to be a tendency to destroy the traditions and the reputations of our national heroes. The Washington Elm is a tradition of which Cambridge should be proud, and which cannot easily be relinquished...
While the final form of the memorial will be determined by the Art Commission of the state, the location is practically certain to be on the Cambridge Common, directly opposite the site of the historic tree...