Word: chanter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with marshes, and the water between Boston and Newtowne (Cambridge) was a river instead of a bay. Travelers in those day did not have the convenience of a bridge; their only means of transport was a primitive cable ferry, for which a small fee was charged. By its original chanter, the Commonwealth granted to the College the right to collect these fees, which became its chief source of revenue. Nearly two centuries later, when the bridge was built, that income was out off. The least the builders could do in compensation was to name the bridge for the College...