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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), The beginnings of Cambridge. (search)
t to Jarvis Field furnished the occasion for the first great assertion of the principles of constitutional law and free government in New England. Two years before the issue of that illegal writ of ship money, which it is John Hampden's glory to have resisted, did these village Hampdens of Watertown utter their memorable protest. In the summer of 1632, a congregation from Braintree in Essex came over to Massachusetts and began to settle near Mount Wollaston, where they left the name of Braintree on the map; but in August they removed to the New Town, where Braintree Street took its name from them. Their pastor, the eminent Thomas Hooker, who had been obliged to flee to Holland, arrived in the course of the next year. This accession raised the population of the New Town to something like 500 persons. But the new-comers were not satisfied with things as they found them, and by 1634 we begin to hear them talk about going elsewhere. Some bold explorers had penetrated far west, eve
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)
Harvard, name given to the college at the New Town, 8. See College and Harvard University. Harvard Annex. See Radcliffe College. Harvard Bank, 305, 306. Harvard Branch of the Fitchburg Railroad, 396. Harvard Bridge, 4, 106, 108. Harvard Hall, burning of, 17, 18; General Court meets in, 20. Harvard, Rev. John, 8. Harvard Square, formerly part of the Common, 16, 23; the town centre, 16; ceases to be the centre, 31; sketch of, in 1822, 35, 36. Harvard Street, formerly Braintree, 8; called Craigie Road, 37. Harvard University (see College), area of lands, 142; purchases and sales, 142, 143; its open spaces a benefit, 144, 145; the University population, 145; makes permanent residents, 145; collections open to the public, 145, 146; lectures, 146; concerts, 146; chapel services, 146; effect on the public schools, 146; on the printing establishments, 147; business of boarding and lodging, 147; private dormitories, 147; business dependent on, 147; effect on Cambrid