The Dartmouth Class of All Time: The Campus Trees |
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To say the Dartmouth community loves its trees is an understatement. The campus is an arboretum obsessively cared for by the College arborist and his colleagues, many trees have been planted or named in honor of folks in the community, there are walking tours and books about the campus trees, and of course several trees go way back in Dartmouth lore. The library even holds pieces of the Old Pine — that most legendary of Dartmouth trees, present at the creation of the College. Although we can't hope to acknowledge all of Dartmouth's storied trees, we thought Thanksgiving offered a good time to pay tribute, in no particular order, to a few members of what we like to call the Dartmouth Class of All Time: the campus trees. 1. Elm Dartmouth has more elms than any other species of tree and probably more than any other college has in a managed landscape. There are about 200 elms on campus, lining the Green and towering elsewhere, and arborist David DiBenedetto tends a nursery of young elms. The courtyard at the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts seems tailor-made for this graceful elm, a showstopper. next |