Word: elm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night was the uncertain future of Prospect Club. This cooperative organization, which accepted any sophomore who would sign its book, attracted only four sophomores, and club representatives were not sure that it could stay in business next fall. New enrollment in the other sixteen clubs ranged from 20 in Elm to 79 in Terrace...
...foredoomed; faster than Congregationalist Shipherd could preach the old time religion, Elyria's storekeepers passed out free whisky to boost trade. The Rev. Mr. Shipherd abandoned the town to its wickedness and with one disciple, the Rev. Philo Penfield Stewart, set out into north Ohio's dense elm forest. On swampy ground, a safe nine miles away, he founded Oberlin College...
...speech finds support from a few scattered members of the crowd, who move closer together to avoid the spitefulness of the elm tree...
Then follow the host of "middle clubs," subject to gradation among themselves no doubt, though here any explicit ranking would be less objective and not generally conceded: Campus, Cannon, Charter, Cloister, Court, Dial, Elm, Key and Seal, Quadrangle, Terrace, and Tower. Dial took this year's only Negro...
...considerably by the direct, conscientious approach of all its selections, leaving attempts at ultra-modernity, super-sophistication and profound obscurity to other publications. John Von Rodenbeck's whimsical study of the victorious Nelson at Trafalgar, Anne Lord's charming sketch of Horses in a Field and Betsy Borden's Elm Tree in Spring demonstrate perhaps most lucidly this admirable use of poetic simplicity...