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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), An Old-time Society. (search)
homas W. Coit, Jonas Wyeth, Jr., John G. Palfrey, William Newell, Nehemiah Adams, R. H. Dana, Ebenezer Francis, Jr., Andrews Norton, Alexander H. Ramsay, Richard M. Hodges, William Saunders, J. B. Dana, C. C. Little, Simon Greenleaf, J. E. Worcester, John A. Albro, C. C. Felton, Charles Beck, Morrill Wyman, James Walker, E. S. Dixwell, Converse Francis, William T. Richardson, H. W. Longfellow, Edward Everett, Asa Gray, Francis Bowen, Joseph Lovering, John Ware, John Holmes, Estes Howe, William Greenough, Robert Carter, E. N. Horsford, Charles E. Norton. Dr. Holmes remained president until his death in 1837, when Joseph Story was put in his place, Dr. Ware still remaining vice-president. Levi Hedge (Ll. D.) was treasurer until 1831, when, on account of ill-health and expected absence from town, he asked to be relieved from the cares of office, and a special meeting was called to choose his successor. Dea. William Brown was the choice of the society, and he held the post for five
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
eport Savings Bank was incorporated in 1853 by Thaddeus B. Bigelow, Benjamin Tilton, George C. Richardson, Robert Douglas, Charles Wood, Thomas Whittemore, John Sargent, George W. Livermore, Edward Hyde, Jeremiah Wetherbee, Lucius R. Paige, William Greenough, John M. St. Clair, and Aaron Rice. The bank has been successful from its start; its deposits, January 13, 1896, were $3,857,575.49; the number of corporators, 23; number of depositors, 12,164. Its officers are Daniel U. Chamberlin, presi, for a large number of their publications are edited by Cambridge men. Their first book, Craik's English of Shakespeare, edited by W. J. Rolfe, was published about the year 1867. Then followed the well-known series of Latin books by Allen and Greenough; the Greek Grammar, by Prof. W. W. Goodwin; Greek Lessons, by Prof. J. W. White; the Harvard Shakespeare, by Dr. Henry N. Hudson; the mathematical works of Prof. J. M. Peirce and Prof. W. E. Byerly, and many others. Among the other books mo
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), General Index. (search)
brary building, 83, 84, 228, 229. Public Schools of Cambridge, The, 187-208. Putnam Lodge of Masons, 284. Quakers in Cambridge, 12, 13. Quineboquin (the crooked) River, 123. Radcliffe College, why so named, 174, 175; established by the legislature, 175; Dr. Stearns's idea of a college for women in Cambridge, 175; origin of Radcliffe, 176; first plan for the collegiate instruction of women, 176; a house chosen, 177; Mr. Gilman unfolds his plan to President Eliot, 177, 178; Professor Greenough's reception of the scheme, 178: President Eliot willing the experiment should be tried, 178; the committee, 178; Harvard professors approve the scheme, 179; the first announcement, 179; the examinations, 180; work begun, 180; educational privileges for women, 180; the line of progress, 181; intellectual character of the students, 181, 182; certificates, 182; the secretary, 182; the quarters prove too small, 183; enlargement, 183; a guardian angel, 183; a building becomes a necessity,