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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The beginnings of Cambridge. (search)
living amongst us) to give the one halfe of his estate (it being in all about £ 1700) towards the erecting of a Colledge, and all his Library; after him another gave £ 300, others after them cast in more, and the publique hand of the state added the rest. New England's First Fruits, p. 12. Most of the clergymen who came to New England were graduates of Cambridge, and as soon as the New Town was designated as the seat of the college, people seem to have begun calling it Cambridge. In May, 1638, this change of name was sanctioned by the General Court, and in March, 1639, the name of Harvard was given to the college. For the college yard was taken the land between the Charlestown highway (Kirkland Street) and Braintree Street, the name of which was changed to Harvard Street. A fence and gate between the college yard and the graveyard, near the site of the present flagstaff, served to keep out of the village the cattle that grazed on the Common. Across Harvard Street (near Linden
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The beginnings of Cambridge. (search)
living amongst us) to give the one halfe of his estate (it being in all about £ 1700) towards the erecting of a Colledge, and all his Library; after him another gave £ 300, others after them cast in more, and the publique hand of the state added the rest. New England's First Fruits, p. 12. Most of the clergymen who came to New England were graduates of Cambridge, and as soon as the New Town was designated as the seat of the college, people seem to have begun calling it Cambridge. In May, 1638, this change of name was sanctioned by the General Court, and in March, 1639, the name of Harvard was given to the college. For the college yard was taken the land between the Charlestown highway (Kirkland Street) and Braintree Street, the name of which was changed to Harvard Street. A fence and gate between the college yard and the graveyard, near the site of the present flagstaff, served to keep out of the village the cattle that grazed on the Common. Across Harvard Street (near Linden
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The beginnings of Cambridge. (search)
living amongst us) to give the one halfe of his estate (it being in all about £ 1700) towards the erecting of a Colledge, and all his Library; after him another gave £ 300, others after them cast in more, and the publique hand of the state added the rest. New England's First Fruits, p. 12. Most of the clergymen who came to New England were graduates of Cambridge, and as soon as the New Town was designated as the seat of the college, people seem to have begun calling it Cambridge. In May, 1638, this change of name was sanctioned by the General Court, and in March, 1639, the name of Harvard was given to the college. For the college yard was taken the land between the Charlestown highway (Kirkland Street) and Braintree Street, the name of which was changed to Harvard Street. A fence and gate between the college yard and the graveyard, near the site of the present flagstaff, served to keep out of the village the cattle that grazed on the Common. Across Harvard Street (near Linden
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The beginnings of Cambridge. (search)
living amongst us) to give the one halfe of his estate (it being in all about £ 1700) towards the erecting of a Colledge, and all his Library; after him another gave £ 300, others after them cast in more, and the publique hand of the state added the rest. New England's First Fruits, p. 12. Most of the clergymen who came to New England were graduates of Cambridge, and as soon as the New Town was designated as the seat of the college, people seem to have begun calling it Cambridge. In May, 1638, this change of name was sanctioned by the General Court, and in March, 1639, the name of Harvard was given to the college. For the college yard was taken the land between the Charlestown highway (Kirkland Street) and Braintree Street, the name of which was changed to Harvard Street. A fence and gate between the college yard and the graveyard, near the site of the present flagstaff, served to keep out of the village the cattle that grazed on the Common. Across Harvard Street (near Linden