Show A GOOD SYMBOL Three years ago the Columbia university uni-versity was removed from Fiftieth street New York city to Morning Side Heights Vllh the university were removed re-moved two English yews the last of eight pliJiitotl more than a hundred years I ago in the botanical garden of the institution The venerablu trees are now III bloom and have seemed to take on new life since their removal The process of removal was Interesting The trees were tunneled under when the ground was frozen and separated with I the roots was a ball of earth weighing weigh-ing fiftyfive tons The trees were then moved as a houno Is moved propped by heavy timbers It required three months to complete the operation The interesting part l > of It all Is that tho trees took to the new place and are Nourishing grandly It ought to be an omen of good to the university When that was founded and those trees were first planted all the literature that the university depended upon was English except of course the ancient classics Since then this country from its then inferior position has expanded to become be-come the foremost of nations und the old trees have caught the Inspiration The removal was so to speak a now naturalization for them and like many another foreign resident they bloomed better under the skies of their adopted 9 < > untry than they ever would in their native country and as they stand and bloom beside the university It is a notice no-tice that that Institution Is I still In full bloom and bearing It Is i like the orange tree that has blossoms for the new fruit appearing even while the maturing fruit Is ripening There might He a stately poem written on that If some one could only be Inspired enough to curry out the real thought and the young men In the university ought to cherish those trees for since they were first planted In their old home that university has expanded it has added many a majestic name to Ha roll of attendants and Ii ought to be endowed now with perpetual life |