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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, as it was pronounced unsafe on account of the poor masonry. It was begun in 1698 and finished two years later, at the cost of L1000, given by Lieutenant-Governor William Stoughton...
There will be a change in the routes of the Cambridge horse-cars in a short time. Cars will run from Harvard square to Park square and thence to City Point. Also from Harvard square to Bowdoin square, thence up Washington street to Essex street...
GLOBE THEATRE SERVICE.-Members of the chorus are requested to be in their seats on the stage by 6.55. Service begins at 7 o'clock sharp. Stage entrance on Essex Street. It is hoped that all the singing men in college will give their assistance...
...Monday following the Melrose parade, the ears of the inhabitants of the aristocratic town of Salem were greeted with the melodious strains of the Harvard band, proudly marching through the streets as escort to the Republican legions of the Essex district. Several Harvard men led the band, adding greatly to the general effect by a reckless discharge of fireworks in all directions, now volleying in the policemen's backs, now in the muzzles of the band instruments, and now startling Salem's fair daughters by a reckless discharge at the windows. The band was warmly applauded along the route...
Prof. F. W. Putnam has been elected a vice-president of the Essex Institute...