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fall foliage

The fleeting splendor of fall

The late Howard Nemerov wrote about the ginkgo trees he loved on campus: “the golden and green leaves litter the lawn today, that yesterday had spread aloft their fluttering fans of light.” A hand-drafted copy of his full poem hangs outside the entrance to Olin Library’s Ginkgo Reading Room.