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Situated near the foot, of State St., where it meets Atlantic Avenue, T Wharf was built sometime between 1708 and 1718 as a relatively unimportant appendage to adjacent Long Wharf, which, until 1868, extended all the way back to historic Faneuil Hall and docked the greatest schooners of its day along approximately one mile of pier. As steamships gradually superseded sailing vessels during the latter part of the 19th century, Boston's importance as a shipping port declined and the extraordinary length of Long Wharf became unnecessary. Needing additional land, the city constructed Atlantic Avenue, chopping Long Wharf in half...
That is not all they did, as a walk from Copley Square to the docks will show you. The Museum of Natural History has become Bonwit Teller, and the S.S. Pierce Building at Copley is now a parking lot, but Faneuil Hall, Quincy Market, and the granite warehouses of North and South Market streets survive among less austere surroundings...
...demonstration for students from the Greater Boston area will be held in a hall as yet undetermined, although historic Faneuil Hall is reported to be the most likely location. Along with the Harvard group--"The Committee for a Free Hungary"--a similar organization at M.I.T. will jointly sponsor the rally, where "student speakers and prominent Boston citizens will speak," according to committee chairman Cornelius M. Sheehan...
...loving Maggie Fraser comes from the socially acceptable environs of Beacon Hill, with Faneuil blue blood on her mother's side. Maggie herself is bouncy and bossy enough to have been a queen bee at Vassar ('22). She is no beauty, but to some masculine eyes she flashes with the radiance of a "Fourth-of-July sparkler." From Vassar. Maggie marches forth to conquer Broadway, and is so chagrined by her failure that she quickly settles for marriage to Dexter Bradfield, 6 ft. 2 of Harvard muscle and inarticulateness...
Council President George M. Frederickson '56 accepted; saying the debate would take place at 8 p.m. Wednesday at 11 Faneuil Hall, Boston...