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...perfectly convenient and, as to the second, they took their case to the general court which agreed they should pay Harvard no more than Hancock, 200 pounds. Harvard quickly realized that the more bridges over the Charles, the better for the endowment fund. So when Andrew Craigie, a wealthy Cantabrigian, proposed building another bridge Harvard put all its influence behind the idea. It was built in 1808. Finally, in 1846, with the construction of a fourth bridge the general court put an end to this craze for bridge-building. It arranged for the purchase of all four bridges...
...some extent, a junkyard is a junkyard no matter where it is located. Yet, like almost everything in town, the Cantabrigian junkyard has some special features that distinguish it from the plain-old-ordinary-run-of-the-mill variety. Unlike the neatly piled, sprawling yard of rusted cars and buses depicted in the movie Nashville, or the mountainous heaps of uncategorized wrecks in the swamps east of Baltimore, or the medium-sized backyard and field lots of suburban Boston, the Cambridge yard is severely limited in size. Since the average junkyard here is no larger than a half-acre...
...Jones, new to the job, already has encountered massive troubles. His biggest headache, he says, is that he doesn't live in Cambridge but in Belmont, a factor that considerably reduces his legitimacy in some Cantabrigian eyes. But Jones insists, "Just because I sleep 300 yards from Cambridge shouldn't mean anything. I spend most of my life here. My friends and job are here and the things I care about are here--so why should it matter...
...Cross game is billed as Cambridge Day, where residents of the city with the proper ID can get into these sections at a buck a head. The Rutgers game is being called Family Day, which is the same as Cambridge Day only you don't need to be a Cantabrigian to take advantage of the discount...
...average Cantabrigian probably feels Harvard's presence most directly when paying his rent--over 80 per cent of the city's residents are tenants. Rent levels in the Boston area are the highest in the country, and Cambridge rents are the highest in Boston. The tremendous demand for housing in the area, caused by the influx of young people attracted to a university community, has made Cambridge a haven for real estate speculators...