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Negro parents responded to the busing edict with Operation Exodus. They privately arranged to bus 300 of their children out of the Roxbury schools which were doomed to over-crowding and possible double sessions. Residents of Dorchester, West Roxbury, Jamacia Plain, Hyde Park, and Roslindale all got a taste of the real thing, as Negro children began to enroll in their schools...
...world. The University extends far beyond the banks of the Charles, or the Medical School in Boston, or the Arboretum in Jamaica Plain. In Massachusetts the University also owns the Harvard Forest and Black Rock Forest (6000 acres) in Petersham, the Bussey Institute for agriculture and horticulture is Jamacia Plain, the George R. Agassis Station in Harvard, Mass, (part of the Astronomical Observatory system), and the Blue Hill Meterological Observatory...
George I. Muihern, of 18 Liller Road, Jamacia Plain, a graduate of Boston Latin School...
Last year only two undergraduates--the average is six or seven-- worked steadily at the South End House. Once a week Daniel R. Pinkham '44, whose hobby is musical instruments of any vintage, laid aside his books and commuted by subway to the settlement house, where he tutored the Jamacia Negro Mothers' Club in music. During the beginning of the year he spent most of his time playing records to his dusky, matronly pupils, then inviting their comment and criticism. When they had gained some acquaintance of strange instruments, he brought a clavicord, fore-runner of the grand piano...
Honoraries--E. M. Howland '06, Jamacia Plain; A. Goodhue '04, Salem; E. M. Sawyer '04, Bangor...