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Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Town and Gown. (search)
The second mayor of the city was Sidney Willard, professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages in the Divinity School, and the author of a Hebrew grammar. His studious habits secured him the nickname among his students of Val from a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Yet this quiet scholar was three times mayor of Cambridge, for two years a member of the Governor's council, and represented his city in the two branches of the legislature for seven years. Another professor of Hebrew, John G. Palfrey, was elected a member of Congress and was postmaster of the city of Boston for six years. Other professors who have not served the city in an official capacity have been warmly interested in the affairs of the community. It was mainly due to Professor Story that Cambridge secured the right to enclose the common, in spite of the strenuous opposition of neighboring towns claiming a prescriptive right to drive across it herds of cattle destined for Brighton. Judge Story was a model c
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Town and Gown. (search)
The second mayor of the city was Sidney Willard, professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages in the Divinity School, and the author of a Hebrew grammar. His studious habits secured him the nickname among his students of Val from a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Yet this quiet scholar was three times mayor of Cambridge, for two years a member of the Governor's council, and represented his city in the two branches of the legislature for seven years. Another professor of Hebrew, John G. Palfrey, was elected a member of Congress and was postmaster of the city of Boston for six years. Other professors who have not served the city in an official capacity have been warmly interested in the affairs of the community. It was mainly due to Professor Story that Cambridge secured the right to enclose the common, in spite of the strenuous opposition of neighboring towns claiming a prescriptive right to drive across it herds of cattle destined for Brighton. Judge Story was a model c
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Town and Gown. (search)
The second mayor of the city was Sidney Willard, professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages in the Divinity School, and the author of a Hebrew grammar. His studious habits secured him the nickname among his students of Val from a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Yet this quiet scholar was three times mayor of Cambridge, for two years a member of the Governor's council, and represented his city in the two branches of the legislature for seven years. Another professor of Hebrew, John G. Palfrey, was elected a member of Congress and was postmaster of the city of Boston for six years. Other professors who have not served the city in an official capacity have been warmly interested in the affairs of the community. It was mainly due to Professor Story that Cambridge secured the right to enclose the common, in spite of the strenuous opposition of neighboring towns claiming a prescriptive right to drive across it herds of cattle destined for Brighton. Judge Story was a model c
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Town and Gown. (search)
The second mayor of the city was Sidney Willard, professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages in the Divinity School, and the author of a Hebrew grammar. His studious habits secured him the nickname among his students of Val from a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Yet this quiet scholar was three times mayor of Cambridge, for two years a member of the Governor's council, and represented his city in the two branches of the legislature for seven years. Another professor of Hebrew, John G. Palfrey, was elected a member of Congress and was postmaster of the city of Boston for six years. Other professors who have not served the city in an official capacity have been warmly interested in the affairs of the community. It was mainly due to Professor Story that Cambridge secured the right to enclose the common, in spite of the strenuous opposition of neighboring towns claiming a prescriptive right to drive across it herds of cattle destined for Brighton. Judge Story was a model c