The Cambridge of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-six: A Picture of the City and Its Industries Fifty Years After Its Incorporation |
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acres Alvan Clark ARTHUR GILMAN bank began boilers Brattle brick Broadway building built C. C. Little Cambridgeport capital Catholic charity Charles River Charlestown charter church citizens city of Cambridge clerk committee corner Curtis Davis Dana Davis East Cambridge Edward elected employed England erected established factory Father feet George George W gymnasium Hall Harvard Bridge Harvard College Harvard Square held Henry High School Holmes hose increased industry institution interest James January John John Reardon land located Lodge Lowell machinery Main Street manufacture March Massachusetts Avenue meeting Messrs Mount Auburn municipal nearly occupied Old Cambridge organized parish park pastor plant present president Press Professor pupils purchased purpose Radcliffe College Railroad Rindge soap society Sortwell Squire stories superintendent teachers Thomas thousand dollars tion town treasurer trustees voted Ward water-works West Boston Bridge William
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Page 13 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease ; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 8 - God's worship, and settled the civill government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust. And as...
Page 150 - far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.
Page 161 - After God had carried us safe to New England And wee had builded our houses Provided necessaries for our livelihood Reard convenient places for Gods worship And setled the civill government One of the next things we longed for And looked after was to advance learning And perpetuate it to posterity Dreading to leave an illiterate ministry To the churches when our present ministers Shall lie in the Dust.
Page 188 - ... it is therefore ordered that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants in general...
Page 22 - Company, to send out their tea to America, subject to the payment of duties on its being landed here, is an open attempt to enforce the ministerial plan, and a violent attack upon the liberties of America.
Page 161 - After God had carried us safe to New England and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 211 - I wish for you," he would say, " is a culture that is alive, active, susceptible of farther development. Do not think that I care to teach you this or the other special science. My instruction is only intended to show you the thoughts in nature which science reveals, and the facts I give you are useful only, or chiefly, for this object.
Page 255 - School and of its Professors and Lecturers shall always be in conformity with the doctrine, ritual and order, discipline and worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America as set forth in the Book of Common Prayer and the Canons of the said Church, and shall at all times embody and distinctly set forth the great doctrine of Justification by Faith alone in the Atonement and Righteousness of Christ, as taught in the
Page 44 - ... books ; but let us look at this one as I can reproduce it from memory. It has a flooring of laths with ridges of mortar squeezed up between them, which if you tread on you will go to — the Lord have mercy on you ! where will you go to ? the same being crossed by narrow bridges of boards, on which you may put your feet, but with fear and trembling. Above you and around you are beams and joists, on some of which you may see, when the light is...