Word: kirkland
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...favorable for a very pleasant run, but only eleven men turned out to take advantage of it The hares, Bemis, '87, and Davis, '88, left the steps of Matthews at 3.10. Seven minutes later the hounds, under Brandt, '85, as master of hounds in pursuit. The course lay up Kirkland street, through the Norton woods, out Wendall street, across North-avenue to the Observatory, past Fresh pond and Mt. Auburn, near which the bags were left. The scent was very well laid, and the hounds found little difficulty in following it until they came to the Mt. Auburn cemetery, where...
...when Charlestown was reached it was with the greatest difficulty that the trail could be followed. At the Charlestown flats all traces of the Hares were lost, and owing to the darkness it was impossible to find the bags. The break for home then took place through Union Square, Kirkland St. to the gymnasium...
...place of great historic interest. The team "The Delta" which it today bears has become restricted in meaning and applies only to what was originally a small portion of a place of much greater extent. The old Delta embraced the entire triangular space enclosed between Quincy and Kirkland streets and Broadway. It was used many years ago as the "play-ground" of the students and was the first gymnasium that Harvard ever possessed. It is not known when it first came into possession of the college, but "Appleton pasture" of which the Delta was once a part was added...
Gooding, J. F. 13 Kirkland Place...
Cogswell, G. P. 61 Kirkland...