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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Observatory is located between Concord Avenue and Garden Street with entrances on Concord Avenue opposite Buckingham Street, and on Garden Street, opposite Linnaeum Street. Automobiles should enter by the Garden Street gate...
When the college was moved out to Concord during the seige of Boston, (while minute-men were scraping the lead off Harvard Hall roofing for bullets) the food problem waned. It was not until 1807 that it broke out again in its violent manner. Maggots in the cabbage soup brought about the Cabbage Rebellion, and minor bickering continued until the outbreak of 1819, the "great Rebellion" which combined a hunger strike, and walk-out of 30 students, weird wardances, bonfires, a battle-royal of tableware, and a noted epic "The Rebelliad...
...Saturday July 15 occurs the excursion to Lexington and Concord. Travelling in special buses over the Paul Revere route the party has an opportunity to view the natural beauty, and the literary and historical sites of these two towns...
...Green, where was "fired the shot heard round the world", after which the party goes through the Hancock-Clarke House where Samuel Adams and John Hancock were sleeping when aroused by Paul Revere. This house now contains the valuable collection of the Lexington Historical Society. On the road to Concord there is an opportunity to inspect the Wayside, the home of Hawthorne, and the Orchard House, the home of the Alcotts. After dinner at the Colonial Inn the party proceeds around Concord, visiting the Antiquarian Society, (where is housed the furniture from Emerson's study and many other interesting exhibits...
...students in 356 colleges in the United States under instruction. Courses at Cambridge in biology, chemistry, and geology followed quickly in those days when Boston was floating on the flood-tide of a renaissance of intellectual interests, and the brilliant foreign professor Louis Agassiz intoxicated the sages of Concord with natural history. The gradual enlargement of these courses into a regular Summer School of Arts and Sciences and its subsequent growth was but the work of time...