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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)
n, Winthrop, South, Holyoke, Dunster, and Boylston had come into existence within these limits. The northern frontier street, upon the site of Harvard Street and Harvard Square, was called Braintree Street. A road upon the site of the lower end of Brattle Street with Brattle Square was known as Creek Lane, and it was continued in the college should be placed in the New Town. And as wee were thinking and consulting how to effect this great work, it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard (a godly gentleman, and a lover of learning, there living amongst us) to give the one halfe of his estate (it being in all about £ 1700) towards the erecting ofe college, people seem to have begun calling it Cambridge. In May, 1638, this change of name was sanctioned by the General Court, and in March, 1639, the name of Harvard was given to the college. For the college yard was taken the land between the Charlestown highway (Kirkland Street) and Braintree Street, the name of which was 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), Harvard University. (search)
roperty, and on real estate occupied for its own purposes. Beginning with John Harvard in 1638, private benefactors have given to the University in land, buildingsand collections.) Below these inscriptions are two more, one speaking of John Harvard:— John Harvard was a Master of Arts of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, EnglJohn Harvard was a Master of Arts of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, founded by Sir Walter Mildmay. The second is a quotation from Thomas Fuller's History of the University of Cambridge (1655), and speaks thus of Sir Walter Miirit is in the college world. From the world outside there comes a cry that Harvard is indifferent,—yet nothing is falser; men do not rightly judge the attitude ottle band that centres round a Home Library; there is a sailors' mission where Harvard students may be found Sundays, and a Prospect Union, where men who have toiled all day meet at night to study, and Harvard students are their teachers. They devote time and strength to these, but they say nothing. Silently the rich have give
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Chapel at Harvard. (search)
Chapel at Harvard. The Right Rev. William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts. One cannot consider the movements of the religious life of Harvard apart from the history of the development of the university from a college. Thirty years ago Harvard was a college. The whole system of discipline was adapted to youth and immaturity of character. The student was under the eye of the college every hour of the day and night; his courses of study were marked out for him, lessons from the textbooks were given from day to day. He was under tutelage. In harmony with this system he was required to go to daily prayers and to Sunday worship. To be sure there was an occasional protest that religion stood on a different footing from studies. But the answer was reasonable that in the development of the boy, religion had its place with study, and why should it not be under the same rules? Thus at an early hour every morning the college bell, under the faithful charge of Old Jones as he 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), Physical Training. (search)
ersity. 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. In the early sixties, the present game of baseba
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 Prospect Union. (search)
student. The Prospect Union has attempted to bring students and wage-earners into friendly relations, and to get them to understand and to help each other. The Union was named from the Prospect House Building on Massachusetts Avenue near Central Square. In this building the Union began its work in January, 1891, under the leadership of Rev. Robert E. Ely and Professor Francis G. Peabody, of Harvard. Its beginning was so small as to be insignificant, but the little group of workingmen and Harvard students increased rapidly, and there has been a constant and encouraging growth ever since. Finally the Prospect House no longer afforded adequate room, and a change of location was necessary. The old city hall was taken at a nominal rental in the fall of 1894, and a year later became the property of the Union. This building is well adapted to the work now carried on there, and has been renovated recently. In it reside the president of the Union and four of his colabor-ers. The Prospe
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)
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This tender was made, and the following reply was received from his Excellency Governor Andrew:— Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Treasurer's Office, Boston, April 24, 1861. Benjamin Tilton, Esq., President Harvard Bank. Dear Sir,—Your communication of the 22d inst. containing the offer of your bank of a loan of $50,000 has been placed in my hands by his Excellency Governor Andrew for reply. He desires me to express to your board of directors hiurpassed by any street railway in America. To illustrate the extent of the travel between Boston and Cambridge, William J. Marvin, Bridge Commissioner, has prepared the following table:— Traffic over West Boston, Craigie, Prison Point, and Harvard bridges, April 18, 1896, between the hours of 6 A. M. and 7 P. M.. Teams.Horses.People.Bicycles.Cars.Passengers. West Boston Bridge4,035,5,4669,9022461,04620,231 Craigie Bridge7,28410,92614,91320256312,695 Prison Point Bridge1,9752<
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)
rch property exempt from taxation, 320. Cities in Massachusetts, 54. Citizens' Trade Association, corporate members, 297; object, 297; membership, 297; its work, 297; officers, 297. City Hall, 86. Clark, Alvan, 76, 379. Clerk, City, 402. Clerk of Committees, 402. Clough, Arthur Hugh, 68. Clubs: Colonial, 294; Newtowne, 295; Cambridge, 295; Economy, 295; Cantabrigia, 296. College, the, General Court makes a grant for, 235; ordered to be placed in the New Town, 235; John Harvard's gifts to, 8; other gifts to, 8; given the name Harvard, 8; the yard boundaries, 8; why it was placed in the New Town. 235; meant to serve the churches, 235; influence of the ministers on its life, 235. See Harvard University. Colonial Club, 294. Commencement, the great holiday of the State, 50; festivities on the Common, 50. Commercial Avenue, 315. Committee of Correspondence, appointment, 20; work of, 21; communicates with the Boston committee, 21; to relieve their Boston