Word: hancockers
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Harvard had a definite financial interest in the Charles for sometime. Before anyone had conceived the idea of building a permanent bridge across the river, the College prospered on a ferry boat business. It was the ever enterprising John Hancock who in 1786 spanned the Charles despite objections from the Harvard Corporation that such facile communication would disturb the College's scholars and be conducive to corrupting their morals. Hancock silenced the President and Fellows with a grant of two hundred pounds per annum for the toll bridge concession. But Hancock's profitable monopoly suffered thereupon from a bridge-building...
...John Hancock Insurance Company appeared as a possible aid to the solution of the local housing problem yesterday with the announcement that it had submitted a preliminary application to Cambridge for approval of a project to be known as "John Harvard Town...
...outlined by the John Hancock officials yesterday, the preliminary application means that "John Hancock is interested in studying the need for Housing at Cambridge, and if all goes well on the issues of zoning and planning will take the second plunge into Greater Boston Housing operations...
...first "plunge" is a development now under construction at the site of Brookline's wold Golf Course. Designed to house 1,000 families on completion. "Hancock Village" will be made up of single family houses, as opposed to the projected "John Harvard Town" which officials said would probably he a multiple housing unit development...
...addition to these two ventures into the field of housing John Hancock officials disclosed, the Company is also studying other districts in Greater Boston to determine their suitability for similar plans...