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Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Tory row. (search)
arters were then at Cambridge. He accomplished the whole of the journey on horseback, accompanied from place to place by mounted escorts. He made all possible speed, arriving the second of July at Watertown, where the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts was in session, by which body he was warmly greeted. He then proceeded to the quarters assigned to him in Cambridge. As he approached the camp of the army which occupied about the site of the present common, he was greeted with shouts and tew Haven. In 1779 it was sold to Andrew Cabot, who eight years later resold the residence to Elbridge Gerry of Marblehead, a well-known patriot and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He afterwards served as governor of Massachusetts, and later still as vice-president of the United States. In 1818 the estate was purchased of Mr. Gerry's widow by Rev. Charles Lowell, who was pastor of the West Church in Cambridge for over forty years. A year later his youngest and most
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), A guide to Harvard College. (search)
ht. Built in the early Years of the last century, they have witnessed many stirring scenes. During the first year of the Revolution the Provincial Congress took possession of them as barracks for the American soldiers. That on the right is Massachusetts Hall, built in 1718, the oldest in the yard, and used for a dormitory with rooms for lectures and examinations. The building on our left is Harvard Hall. The province bore the expense of its erection in 1765. Its uses were manifold in thright window gardens, while the eastern side, overlooking the lawn, used for tennis and for Class Day spreads, is in its season richly decorated with the luxuriant Ampelopsis veitchii. The other dormitory, Quincy Hall, named for this noted Massachusetts family, has been recently built, thus embodying all the improvements which have been made in buildings of this nature. Within a short distance of Beck Hall, on Harvard street, stands Ware Hall, considered a model in its appointments for a
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), The river Charles. (search)
l of money, and various expedients were adopted to aid Cambridge in her bearing of what was justly considered a heavy burden for the poor little town. Brighton, Newton, Lexington and Middlesex County itself helped to keep the bridge in repair, and even the General Court occasionally granted money on its account. It would take too long to review in detail all the important events that have happened here, such as the brilliant scene in 1716 when Colonel Shute, the newly made governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, was met at the bridge by Spencer Phips, Esq., with his Troop of Horse, the Sheriff of Middlesex and other gentlement of the County, and conducted by them to Harvard College, where he was entertained with a long oration, all in Latin. It was nearly sixty years after that gala day, that the planks of the Great Bridge were hastily torn up and piled along the Cambridge side in order to impede the march of Lord Percy's advancing reinforcements, on the nineteenth of April
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), A chapter of Radcliffe College. (search)
s movement, because they saw in it possibilities in that direction. Those who held the opposite view favored the new enterprise because it did not attempt to push women into the classes of men. The ladies themselves made no announcement on these points. When it became necessary to establish the institution in a home of its own, to obtain real estate, and larger funds, a more formal organization was effected, and the voluntary association became a corporation under the general laws of Massachusetts with the name The Society for the Collegiate Instruction for Women. This was in August, 1882, and several new members were added at the time who greatly increased the strength of the body. These were Professor Charles Eliot Norton, Professor Goodwin, Professor Smith, at the time Dean of Harvard College, Professor Child, Professor Byerly, Professor James Mills Peirce, Miss Mason and Henry Lee Higginson, Esq., of Boston, and Joseph B. Warner, Esq., of Cambridge, who had previously acted
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), The thing most needed in Cambridge. (search)
ge. Mrs. Susan A. Gilman. We need the Metropolitan Park System completed. Then Cambridge will have one of the most superb driveways in America, bordering the Charles, with the handsome fronts of stately residences facing the water. We need a fine fountain on the common. We need — alas! that it should be so!-an Art Museum that will be a joy to the eyes. As has been suggested, it should stretch its beautiful colonnades and graceful arches of stone and brick-harmonizing with old Massachusetts in line and color-along the great green terrace, between the President's house and Gore Hall. With its stately beauty, what an impressive approach to the University, as we came up Massachusetts avenue! We need a large, commodious hall for lectures and concerts. We need a small, but perfectly kept, hotel. Many other things for use and for beauty we need; but most of all, we need in our city of rapidly increasing population, good homes for our working-people — model tenements.