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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)
there were near it the Holmes House and one or two smaller houses; up the Concord Road, now Massachusetts Avenue, there were but few; the Common was unfenced until 1830; up Brattle Street there were only the old houses of Tory Row 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, o
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Literary life in Cambridge. (search)
ch, laboring and making friends with men with whom he should have continued to live, only he could not well bear transplanting. We are potted plants here in Cambridge, said the witty Francis Wharton, explaining to an English visitor that the men of whom he inquired were not natives of Cambridge, but were drawn to it by its university and schools and kindred spirits. Hither came that poet, Forceythe Willson, who flashed forth a few striking war lyrics, but lived almost in obscurity near Simond's Hill; a silent figure, scarcely known even to those neighbors who could best appreciate him. To Cambridge at a later date came another stranger, Elisha Mulford, who brought with him the reputation built upon The Nation, that masterly interpretation of our great federal life, hammered out with toil in the silence of his Pennsylvania home after the war for the Union was over; and here he wrought upon that great conception of The Republic of God, making in these books two pillars for sustaining
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)
7. Scientific School. 75, 76; instructors, 75. Second Parish, incorporated as West Cambridge, 9, 16;. Sewall or Lechmere House, 28. Sewall, Jonathan, his windows broken by Cambridge citizens, 23. Sewers, Superintendent of, 404. Shays's Rebellion, 32. Shepard, Rev. Thomas, arrival at New Town, 7,233; his vigilancy against heresies, 7; his ministry, 7, 235; his presence determines the seating of the college, 235. Shepard Congregational Society, organized, 31,239. Simond's Hill, 37. Sinking Funds, Commissioners of the, 403. Social Union, property exempt from taxation, 1320. Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women. See Radcliffe College. Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, sends missionary to Cambridge, 240. Soldiers' Monument, 50. Solicitor, City, 404. Somerville Powder House, 23. South Dock Canal, 30. Springfield becomes a city, 54. Squire, John P., 371, 373. Stage lines to Boston, 395, 396. Stamp