NEW TREES WARM THE HEART

With 30 degree days becoming the norm and vicious winds not uncommon, it is obvious that winter is coming around the bend. Dartboard is finding face-time in the cold outdoors increasingly dangerous, and hereby announces its official hibernation into the belly of the beast at 14 Plympton St. Alas, activity continues on the streets of Cambridge.

City workers, for example, were out in force yesterday planting trees in the newly constructed granite pits on Mass. Ave. The tall, lanky specimens are leafless beings. Their wafer branches are stripped and gathered together in a forced upward cone, for transport it seems. Still, the trees are three. Pigeons on the grass alas, alas.

The walk up Bow St. now reveals a pleasing, if synthetic, sight. In the midst of our retreat from the forces of nature, it is heartening to see that City Hall, for one, hasn't been so affected by the cold. We hope that the trees will survive through the winter, which promises to be brutal to judge from the current undertow of chill. They are a pleasant addition to the newly-paved street.