Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought that I would never see A mining claim that was a tree; Mines are mined by fools we see, While Al Sarena mines the trees...
There used to be a Rebellion Tree in the Yard. No longer does anyone know where it stood or when it was uprooted. Yet that it did exist is quite certain from the numerous references to it in old documents. And that it was the very symbol of the former rebellious spirit of the Harvard undergraduate--now apparently gone forever--is also quite certain...
...Rebellion Tree stood for open defiance during the nineteenth Century. The spirit it engendered in the undergraduate becomes clear in an excerpt from a poem entitled "The Rebellion," written by a student in memory of the Riot of 1819: "But Oh! the Sophs! their frantic yells Were louder far than lecture bells They form'd a ring about the Tree, And to this solemn oath agree: 'By This Almighty Plant, we swear. 'We will not flinch a single hair 'Until the laws of College rot, 'And government is sent...
Professors understood the meaning of the Rebellion Tree as well. This entry appears in the Faculty Records for July 18,1821, for instance: "Great irregularity and disorder took place yesterday, being the day of valedictory. The class marched in procession thro' the several streets of Cambridge, many in a state of intoxication, and conducting with gross indecency and insult as they passed the houses of some of the officers; and in the College yard insulting the whole authority by dancing around the Rebellion Tree with the shout of friendship and rebellion...
...back in Arkansas. "I tried to imagine how things seemed to me when I was a child," he says. He found his mother's old picture album a rich lode to mine. Setting up his studio in nearby Memphis, Cloar painted My father was big as a tree, recording his boyhood image of his looming (200 Ibs., 6 ft. 1 in.) father, Charlie Cloar. Arrival of the Germans in Crittenden County, if they won the war they would be over here shows spiked-helmeted soldiers of the Kaiser's army wandering in greatcoats through a rolling Arkansas landscape...