Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sixes and fours. The Harvard four is to be taken from the second eight of the University, the six from the club sixes, after the spring race. The Union four has already a well-won reputation, and will make a very hard race. It is hoped that the Jamaica Rowing-Club will also enter the regatta...
...will issue, about the first of January, "Harvard and its Surroundings," a book modelled after "Alden's Sixpenny Guide to Oxford." This book will contain about sixty pages of reading matter and fifty heliotypes and woodcuts, including views of all the College buildings, those in Boston and Jamaica Plain as well as those in Cambridge. The heliotypes will be furnished by Osgood & Co., the press work will be done at the Riverside Press, and the price of the volume will be placed at one dollar. The enterprise meets with high favor among the "powers that be," and we predict success...
...thought sufficiently interesting for a word of notice, that our friend's first American ancestor, Major Robert Sedgwick, Governor of Jamaica under Cromwell, was one of the early benefactors of Harvard College...
...DANIEL CARPENTER BACON, Jamaica Plain...
...Bacon, Jamaica Plain, Mass.; class '76; age, 19; weight, 168 lbs.; height...