Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SOME fate, unpropitious to the West End, seems to attend the placing of statues in Boston. Some one has already pointed out the bad taste displayed in putting Edward Everett in the Public Garden with his back to Beacon Street. George Washington has turned his steed from Beacon Hill, and is riding toward Natick. Even the Good Samaritan has "passed by on the other side"; and now the Genius of America on the top of the Monument has turned her back on that high-toned part of the city, and is facing that benighted region known as the South...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes receives the candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Dental Medicine, at breakfast at 10 o'clock, at his house, 296 Beacon Street...
...pretty well filled, others not so well. But we think that, if the day proves favorable, the meeting will be a success. Arrangements have been made, as already stated in our last issue, with the Union Railway Horse-Car Company to run cars through from Harvard Square to Beacon Park. The Brighton cars from Bowdoin Square also pass directly in front of the gates of the Park; access to the grounds is thus rendered very easy...
...think that the Athletic Association is to be congratulated on having run on so far into the year without any intimation of an assessment. Notwithstanding the difficulties in holding the Summer Meeting at Beacon Park, we understand that the entry-book is well filled; and we hope to see a large and fashionable attendance of our fair friends at the Park, where they will find better accommodation than we could have offered them on Jarvis. We trust the result of the meeting may show, in spite of the Transcript, that the youth of Harvard, the flower of the country...
...rash and inconsiderate Argus, having ventured a "churlish criticism" of the Beacon, has been completely annihilated in half a column of simile, seriousness, and sarcasm. We, therefore, profiting by such an example, simply offer our congratulations to the Beacon for its peculiarly elevated style and tone. May we suggest, however, that it is not universally acknowledged that the line "Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow," is by Shakespeare. Some persons contend that it is the first line of a lost work, "The Traveller," by an obscure poet named Goldsmith. We are in perfect sympathy with the Beacon, and only doubt whether...