"On the campus of the University of Washington there is an elm which was obtained by Arthur J. Collins of the Class of 1896, while doing graduate work at Harvard. He got permission to place a box of soil in the limbs of the old elm at Cambridge under which Washington took command of the Continental Army on July 3, 1775... On July 3, 1925, President Coolidge will participate in a celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of that great event in American history at the spot where the old tree stood. The event will also be commemorated on the campus of the University of Washington."
