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During campus-improvement work, this dauntless tree has lived 

 through the filling-in of the ravine, although its trunk is buried 

 for 30 feet or more. 



Locust in Topeka, associated with the Civil War history of the 

 State, is marked by a concrete block which is inscribed : "The oldest 

 tree in Topeka. the 2-B Grade of 1912. Central Park School." 



LOUISIANA 



Century Live Oaks, on the campus of Southwestern Louisiana 

 Institute, Lafayette, planted on the first day of the twentieth century, 

 January 1, 1901. 



McDonough Oak, City Park of New Orleans, bears name of great 

 patron of education who left his fortune to Baltimore, Md., and 

 New Orleans, La., for educational purposes. 



Thorndike Oak, red oak in center of Bowdoin College Campus, 

 Brunswick. It bears the name of one of the first eight students 

 to enter Bowdoin in 1802, who planted the acorn. 



MICHIGAN 



Filibert Roth Memory Elm, planted by his friends in Palmer 

 Park, Detroit, in May 1926. Dr. Roth was an outstanding figure in 

 educational work in forestry. He was dean of the forestry depart- 

 ment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for more than 20 years. 



Marshall Oak. A huge forest tree on the ground of H. C. Brook, 

 of Marshall. Under this historic tree two early settlers often met in 

 the summer of 1834 to discuss their plans for an improved public- 

 school system. These men were Isaac E. Crary, United States Repre- 

 sentative in Congress from 1835 to 1840, and John D. Pierce, first 

 superintendent of public instruction in Michigan, from 1836 to 1841. 

 Their system, enacted into law in 1836, has given rise to the claim 

 that the school system of the United States had its inception in the 

 village of Marshall, which has been called "The cradle of American 

 public school education" (fig. 23 A and B.) 



NEW HAMPSHIRE 



Old Pine, at Dartmouth College, Hanover, was the center of class- 

 day exercises and other celebrations during the greater part of the 

 nineteenth century. It was cut down in 1895, but its stump, 4 feet in 

 height, has been preserved as a valued relic. 



NEW JERSEY 



The Stamp-Act Sycamores, planted in front of the residence of the 

 president of Princeton University in 1765, have always been associated 

 with the famous Stamp Act of that year. 



NEW YORK 



Nott Elm, on grounds of historic Union College, at Schenectady, 

 named in honor of Eliphalet Nott, president of Union College from 



