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...Inner Belt itself is part of a system of expressways which will facilitate movement between the center of the Metropolitan area and the suburbs. The Belt will extend in an are of approximately seven miles from a point in Charlestown near the Mystic River Bridge to Massachusetts Avenue in Roxbury, near the Boston City Hospital. It will penetrate Somerville, Brookline, and parts of Boston, as well as Cambridge. Because of complications on the Brookline side of the Charles, the road must enter Cambridge somewhere west of the Boston University Bridge. At this point the geographical tragi-comedy begins...
Physical Education classes and evening sociables were not the only entertainment of the summer. Excursions to such distant points as Lexington or Concord, Charlestown, Marblehead, or the New Hampshire lakes, filled weekends and afternoons. Evening lectures were given by men such as Shaler or Harvard philosophers Josiah Royce and William James. A conference on educational techniques, precursor of the annual meeting on pedagogical problems, met periodically...
...first part of the equation is Boylston Hall. This building, resembling the Charlestown jail more than a modern center for instruction in languages, has been completely reconstructed to give the modern language departments an opportunity to utilize the "oral-aural," "direct," method of teaching. Once a drafty museum of natural history, once the finest chemical laboratory in the United States, and once the headquarters of the Yen-Ching Institute Boylston has undergone another complete transmutation...
...barren pattern set by most other bosses was his wit. Much of it was of a local variety. In 1921 campaigning for Mayor against John R. Murphy, a good Irish Catholic, Curley dressed up a few of his camp followers as priests and sent them across Charlestown and elsewhere bruiting it about that John R. Murphy had renounced his Catholic Faith, joined a Masonic Order, had been observed attending Back Bay's Trinity Church, and intended to divorce his good wife in order to marry a sixteen-year-old girl. As the campaign was drawing to its successful close, Curley...
Preceding the review, Phillips and the staffs of the Army and Air Force ROTC units will be guests of the NROTC staff at a luncheon at the Charlestown Navy Yard Officers' Club...