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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 938 0 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 220 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 178 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 148 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 96 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 92 0 Browse Search
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1 88 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 66 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 64 0 Browse Search
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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), Harvard University. (search)
e, Agricultural Chemistry, and Rural Hygiene, by a staff of seven instructors. The students in the school number fifteen. The degree of Bachelor of Agricultural Science is conferred upon graduates. Within late years there has grown up at the university another department, the value of whose far-reaching influence it would be difficult to overestimate. This is the Summer School. The students in this school are chiefly teachers drawn hither from all parts of the country, from Maine to California, from Minnesota to Texas, to enjoy the advantages that the university offers in its libraries and museums, to receive instruction, and to learn Harvard methods of teaching. From the inception of the school the number of its students has steadily grown, until in 1895 five hundred and seventy-five were registered. For the summer of 1896 the school offers at Harvard College and the Lawrence Scientific School courses in English, German, French, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry,
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 Associated Charities of Cambridge. (search)
January 16, 1883, and the late Dr. A. P. Peabody was chosen president. He was succeeded by Mr. J. B. Warner in October, 1884, and by Rev. E. H. Hall in 1891; after Mr. Hall's resignation, Rev. Dr. Edward Abbott was elected president, and now holds the office. Mr. William Taggard Piper succeeded Dr. Emerton as secretary in March, 1882, and he was followed in 1889 by Mr. Arthur E. Jones, the present secretary. Dr. Vaughan performed invaluable service as director until his departure for California, in 1895; and Mr. John Graham Brooks has made his special knowledge in the field of organized charity and social questions of great advantage in the enlargement of the work now being effected. In March, 1883, Mr. J. Watson Harris was appointed paid agent of the society with especial reference to the needs of the Cambridgeport conference; after more than twelve years of faithful service in this capacity, he resigned in November, 1895. Miss Pear's conscientious and valuable labors contin
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 Avon home. (search)
iven invaluable assistance by their unwearied interest and careful attention to all the numerous details of the institution. Three hundred children have been cared for at the Avon Home in the last twenty-two years; their stay has been for different periods, varying from a few days to eight years. Some have been foundlings or orphans, for whom after a time homes have been provided where they might be adopted and brought up as if belonging to the family; others have been surrendered to the trustees and similarly placed. By far the largest number have been cared for temporarily during some crisis in the family, and when this had passed the parents or relatives were able to care for them. The children who have stayed at the Home long enough to receive much benefit from its influence have all, so far as known, turned out well; one is in California, others nearer Cambridge, but most of them are still in the city or the immediate neighborhood, and all are proving respectable citizens.
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)
by contract, which have been put in churches in nearly every State in the Union from Maine to California, besides quite a number for Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, also for the West Indies, heir method has been adopted by many of the leading coal merchants and railroads from Maine to California. Mr. Rawson died October 17, 1893, and the business has since been continued by Mr. Morrisoor selling and disposing of the product of his factory. Subsequently he shipped many goods to California during the gold fever, and also to Australia and England. Even so far back as 1855 steam was New York, Chicago, St. Louis, and St. Paul, the product is sold over the country from Maine to California, and a large export trade is being developed. One million two hundred thousand pounds of crude-Cutting Machine, which is in successful operation in the largest granite works from Maine to California. He was the first to run a quarry entirely by steam-power without the use of horses or oxen.