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to that spot and erected a sort of hut, or arbor, in which 

 to live until their log houses were finished. On com- 

 ing together in this arbor they discovered that the 

 Christian name of each of the three wives was Ann : 

 hence the name of the place; and this fact gave a po- 

 etic coloring to it which was a permanent pleasure to 

 me. It was an unending satisfaction to reflect that no 

 misguided patriot had been allowed to inflict upon that 

 charming university town the name of "Athens," or "Ox- 

 ford, ' ' or " Socratopolis, " or " Anacreonsburg, " or " Pla- 

 to ville, " or " Emporium, " or " Eudaimonia. ' ' What, but 

 for those three good women, the name might have been, 

 may be judged from the fact that one of the founders of 

 the university did his best to have it called a "Katho- 

 loepistemiad"! 



But there was one drawback. The ' ' campus, ' ' on which 

 stood the four buildings then devoted to instruction, 

 greatly disappointed me. It was a flat, square inclo- 

 sure of forty acres, unkempt and wretched. Through- 

 out its whole space there were not more than a score of 

 trees outside the building sites allotted to professors; 

 unsightly plank walks connected the buildings, and in 

 every direction were meandering paths, which in dry wea- 

 ther were dusty and in wet weather muddy. Coming, as 

 I did, from the glorious elms of Yale, all this distressed 

 me, and one of my first questions was why no trees had 

 been planted. The answer was that the soil was so hard 

 and dry that none would grow. But on examining 

 the territory in the neighborhood, especially the little 

 inclosures about the pretty cottages of the town, I found 

 fine large trees, and among them elms. At this, without 

 permission from any one, I began planting trees within the 

 university inclosure ; established, on my own account, sev- 

 eral avenues; and set out elms to overshadow them. 

 Choosing my trees with care, carefully protecting and 

 watering them during the first two years, and gradually 

 adding to them a considerable number of evergreens, I 

 preached practically the doctrine of adorning the campus. 



