Word: apthorpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also in 1775 Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne and his Convention Army came to town after their defeat at Saratoga. Burgoyne and his men got the usual welcome accorded visiting Englishmen. Their baggage was dumped in the middle of the Cambridge Common, and Gentleman Johnny was imprisoned at Apthorp House. Burgoyne had noting to complain about during his stay in Cambridge. He had plenty of good food and drink, a soft bed, and everything he wanted at the expense of the Commonwealth, or so he thought. But when Burgoyne was about to be exchanged, the town of Cambridge presented him with such...
...second owner of the Bishop's Palace was no more palatable to the Cambridge citizenry than the first. John Borland, a shady Tory merchant, was finally kicked out of town in 1775. General Israel Putnam and the Rebel Army then took over the mansion as their headquarters, and the Apthorp house remained a military establishment during the Revolution...
When the war was over, Apthorp House once again went on private sale. But the cost of its upkeep was so great that no owner could keep it very long without going bankrupt. Even so, during the 1800's the Bishop's Palace was one of the show places of New England society. The deep window seats, spacious rooms and wide windows, the old staircase with its three original baluster patterns still intact, and the white pine mantelpiece of the dining room with its surrounding work of original old Dutch tiles, made the building one of the main points...
...flanking movement began in 1897 when Randolph Hall, a private Harvard dormitory, went up on two sides of the old mansion. In 1901 another wing was added, and the owners of Apthorp sold out to the University. The old mansion then became a college dormitory under the name of Apthorp House. "It was for many years the dormitory for students coming from St. George's School at Newport, a school which furnished most of Harvard's pre-war athletes." This was very unfortunate for the St. George Boys. Because Apthrop's large windows were perfect targets, the inmates of Randolph...
...student era formed a tradition of its own around Apthorp. Some of the most famous college songs originated there: songs line "Don't sent my son to Princeton, the dying mother said," and "My son Oscar, he goes to Dartmouth." And all old Apthorp men remember of time that two sailors from the Arizona staggered in after a football game and collapsed in a second floor bathtub...