...e fewness of its houses. The house in which I was born in 1823, and which had been built by my father, was that at the head of Kirkland Street, then Professors' Row,—the house now occupied by Mrs. F. C. Batchelder . The field opposite, now covered largely by Memorial Hall, was then an open common, where I remember to have seen the students climbing or swinging on Dr. Charles Follen's outdoor gymnastic appara...