Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 394
d Harvard change froma little college into a university of world-wide fame. Now it stands in a fenced-in plot, withtraffic passing on both sides. It is a shadow of its former self in strength and size, for oldage and numerous attacks of leopard-mothsand elm-leaf beetles have reduced it toscarcely… … THE ABOVE TABLET BEARS THE FOLLOWING INSCRIP-TION: UNDER THIS TREE WASHINGTON FIRST TOOKCOMMAND OF THE AMERICAN ARMY, JULY 3, 1775 spot, and, at the present rate of decay, inten years there will be little else left to markthe place where, one hundred and forty-sevenyears ago, the young nation…
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