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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), Cambridge town, 1750-1846. (search)
de in the early days of our independence have already been described. They were upon a scale of magnitude which, when we consider the circumstances under which they were accomplished, was surprising. Bridges, avenues and streets, turnpikes, and canals, all were directly in that interest. The population in 1790 was 2115. In 1810, notwithstanding the fact that Brighton and West Cambridge had in the mean time been set off, the census showed 2323 inhabitants. In 1840, there were 8409, and in 1850 there were 15,215. There must have been therefore in Cambridge in 1846 six times as many inhabitants as there were in Cambridge, Brighton, and West Cambridge in 1790. This growth was at a rate nearly three times that of the State at large during the same period. This prosperity resulted from protracted peace, and freedom from great political excitement. For many years after the organization of the state government there were but few events which interfered with it. It is true that the ins
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Cambridge a city. (search)
charter having been granted by the legislature and accepted by its people five days before the corresponding action was taken in Cambridge. A year later, Charlestown illustrated the general tendency by likewise becoming a city. Before this charter agitation of 1846, there had been no new cities in Massachusetts since the incorporation of Salem and Lowell in 1836. But following the example of Boston's three little neighbors, New Bedford became a city in 1847, Worcester in 1848, and Lynn in 1850. Then came Newburyport in 1851, Springfield in 1852, Lawrence in 1853, Fall River in 1854, and so the list has lengthened, year by year. With the exception of the three early ventures of Boston, Salem, and Lowell, the era of Massachusetts municipalities may be said to have begun in 1846. The rapid increase in the population and property of Cambridge in the years immediately preceding the adoption of the charter was the main reason for the change in its form of government. From the nati
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Scientific Cambridge. (search)
ific arrangements of the Cambridge Hospital, due in such large measure to a kindred scientific spirit. The university is the proper environment of such men. In 1850, the Scientific School was established, and under the instruction of Agassiz, Gray, Wyman, Peirce, Eustis, Horsford, a number of teachers were bred who, I have saiics, and Cambridge has sent out the leading astronomers in America. There was little systematic instruction in the higher branches of astronomy and mathematics in 1850, but there was a strong intellectual environment; and one sometimes gets as much in a colloquium, even in Berlin, as in a course of systematic lectures. One shoulot up like a great geyser in the fifties has been followed by a stream of patient investigation in well-equipped laboratories. Where there was one investigator in 1850, there are now hundreds; and can we not say that just as a deluge can lift a host of small craft up to the heights of the peaks once attained by only one or two ex
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Physical Training. (search)
ymnasium had no official connection with the university. During this period considerable interest was awakened in recreative games, football, baseball, and cricket then being played. College boat-clubs were formed in 1845, and the first boat-house was built in 1846. From this year on, boating was freely engaged in by the students, partly for exercise, but principally for pleasure. Although boat races began as early as 1845, there were no contests with Yale and other colleges until after 1850. During the next decade the seed sown by Harvard was beginning to bear fruit in other institutions. Match ball games and boat races were occasionally arranged, and a renewed interest in gymnastics was awakening. In 1860, the old gymnasium opposite Memorial Hall, now used by the engineering department, was erected. Immediately after the establishment of the gymnasium at Harvard in 1860, gymnasiums were built at Amherst, Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Wesleyan, and several other colleges.
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)
holders indemnity for loss through the various years until 1850, by successive assessments, when new methods were adopted, n every State in the Union by this title. In the fall of 1850 Edwin Dresser and Eben Denton, under the firm name of Edwine founder of the industry, Edwin Dresser, from the start in 1850. Especial care has always been paid to the character of thThe old firm of Denio & Roberts was started in Boston about 1850, and for many years carried on business in different placesest effort, he opened a factory of some pretensions, and in 1850 he was the sole proprietor of the establishment at 204, 206ef-packing business under the name of C. Valentine & Co. In 1850, on the death of Mr. Valentine, the packing business was giSquire continued the business at the same place alone until 1850, when the firm of John P. Squire & Co. was formed, his part. The partners of Mr. Squire changed several times between 1850 and the date of the formation of the corporation, and the c
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)
sium, 171; growth of interest in physical development in the United States, 171; students of physical training at Harvard, 172; influence on the youth of Cambridge, 172, 173; the college offers the use of its grounds to the city, 173. Pine Swamp Field, 4. Pointers, 60. Police Department, 405. Police force, 316. Ponema Tribe, Red Men, 293. Poor's House, the, 17, 276. Population, in 1680, 10; in 1750, 17; in 1765, 17; in 1776, 17, 29; in 1790, 32; in 1810, 32; in 1840, 32; in 1850, 32; in 1895, 59; comparative statement of, 319. Population, density of, 131. Port Bill, 22. Port chucks, 38. Porters, 60. Porter's Tavern. 37. Prescott, Col. William, 49. Printing-press, the first, 8; productions of, 8. Prison Point Bridge, 29. Private Schools in Cambridge, 208-217. Professors' Row (Kirkland Street), 36, 37, 41. Prospect Union, object, 265; name, 265; begins work in the Prospect House, 265; leaders, 265; outgrows its quarters, 265; occupies the old