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This year's course is one of a long line of lecture courses offered to the people of Cambridge through the generosity of Thomas Dowse, leather-dresser and book-collector of Cambridgeport, who years ago bequeathed to the City of Cambridge a fund the income of which was to be spent each year in providing one or more courses of lectures of highest character on literary and scientific subjects. Notable among the names of former Dowse lecturers are those of Edward Everett, 1811, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1821, Charles Sumner, 1830, Wendell Phillips, 1831. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1864, and Henry Ward...
Thomas Dowse was proprietor of a "wool-puller's" or leather dresser's shop in Cambridgeport, where he lived and worked until his death at the age of eighty-four...
...Cambridgeport, indeed! What would it be without Harvard? A collection of slaughter houses, a pig-killing village. Whoever heard of Cambridge but as the seat of Harvard University, from which it got its very name...
...Harvard Square," he said, "was originally a crossroad, marking the intersection of the Brighton, Arlington, and Cambridgeport highways. It had a small grass plot in the center that was called a common, but was used most frequently as a parking space by farmers trying to sell loads...
Originally, the paper was written in the room of the various editors, the first office being the room of Mr. Henry Alden Clark '74 in Stoughton Hall. It was at first printed in Cambridgeport, but in 1901 rooms were engaged in the Union, and it was there edited and printed until 1915. In the summer of that year, the present building at 14 Plympton street was constructed, and was first occupied in the following autumn...