Word: downes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The water around the Shawmut Boat Club house at South Boston is free from ice nearly all winter and offers splendid opportunities for rowing. The Shawmut Club has very kindly consented to leave their floats down during the winter, and will allow the 'varsity crew to keep a boat there...
The article "United States," written for the "Encyclopedia Britannica," has made its appearance in the twenty-third volume of that work, and is now being reprinted, and will make a volume of about 400 octavo pages. This article contains a very condensed review of the physical geography and geology of...
When the college buildings were occupied by the army in 1775, 240 men were quartered in Stoughton, and the Provincial Congress assigned a room in the same building to Samuel and Ebenezer Hall, who there published the N. E. Chronicle and Essex Gazette. In 1780, Stoughton Hall was torn down...
The present Stoughton Hall, which was designated in the early catalogues as New Hall, was built in 1804, the funds necessary for it having been mainly obtained by a lottery sanctioned by the legislature. The building, as it stands now, has undergone but few changes since its erection. Originally there...
Now that the concert of the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality is near at hand, I beg leave to offer through your columns, a suggestion to the managers of those clubs. It is a pity that these enjoyable and successful concerts should be anticlimaxed, so to speak, by the careless...