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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), Life in Cambridge town. (search)
and one or two late additions. On the south side of Brattle Street there was not a house from Hawthorn Street to Elmwood Avenue; all was meadow-land and orchards. Mount Auburn Street was merely the back road to Mount Auburn, with a delightful bathing place at Simond's Hill, behind what is now the hospital,—an eminence afterwards carted away by the city and now utterly vanished. Just behind it was a delicious nook, still indicated by one or two lingering trees, which we named The Bower of Bliss, at a time when the older boys, Lowell and Story, had begun to read and declaim to us from Spenser's Faerie Queene. The old willows now included in the Casino grounds were an equally favorite play-place; we stopped there on our return from bathing, or botanizing, or butterflying, and lay beneath the trees. North Cambridge as yet was not, though Porter's Tavern was; and we Old Cambridge boys watched with a pleased interest, not quite undemoralizing, the triumphant march of the Harvard Was
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)
overnment, 1; assembling of General Court at, 2; means of communicating with, 4; troops stationed in, 20; granted authority to improve the river bank, 106; its city council opposes the construction of Harvard Bridge, 107; completes the Charlesbank, 107; no provision for girls in its early schools, 189; high school opened for girls in, 192. Boston Massacre, 20.. Boston Porcelain and Glass Company, 30. Boston Port Bill, 22. Boston Tea-party, 22. Bounties for wolves, 9. Bower of Bliss, The, 37. Bowers, Benanuel, declares himself a Baptist, 12; fined and imprisoned for entertaining Quakers, 12; turns Quaker, 12; sends verses to Thomas Danforth, 12; harangues the people in the meeting-house, 13. Bradstreet, Mrs., the ponderous verses of, 2. Bradstreet, Simon, site of his house, 2. Braintree Street, 3, 6; name changed to Harvard, S. Brattle, General, notifies Gage of removal of powder from Charlestown, 23; apologizes to the Cambridge people, 24. Brattle, R