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...power of the citizens of the "Greater Boston" of which Cambridge forms a part, to secure at a comparatively trifling cost a system of great natural parks, which as the community grows will prove a priceless boon to the people-a perpetual source of recreation and health...
...question as to the wisdom of the policy proposed. There can be no doubt as to its adoption when once the inertia of the public has been overcome: Intelligent people ought to see to it that this inertia does not prevent the prompt action necessary to secure this great boon at slight cost. Is it not a case in which Harvard men may fittingly express by their cooperation with the Commission-headed as it is by an honored graduate and benefactor of the University-their intelligent interest in the welfare of the community...
...Subsidies will restore the hammer to the shioyard, develop commerce, and prove a boon to American labor-Report of select committee, 1882, p 109; H. A. Hill's American Shipping...
...which ought to add further interest to the match. There are many men in college who have played cricket in preparatory schools or elsewhere, and we urge such men to come forward and try for positions on the team. The game with the University of Pennsylvania will give a boon to the sport, and we hope that the college will do its share towards helping the team to achieve as many victories this year as it did last spring...
...correspondent suggests that the spring vacation be changed so as to include Easter Sunday. The suggestion is a good one, and the adoption of it would be a boon to such of us as live in other cities than Boston. Those who live here all the year round can be at home on Easter Day. But it is not so with the others. If we remember aright, when the suggestion to lengthen the Christmas recess was brought up last year, the faculty replied that the power lay not in their hands, but in those of the overseers. Our correspondent...