Word: playground
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Fellows of Harvard against the Boston Park Commissioners has been denied by Judge Barker of the Supreme Court. The petition was for a writ of certiorari to quash the proceedings of the Park Board in taking a tract of land belonging to the Bussey Institution farm for a public playground. The case is an interesting one and unusual in several particulars. It was contended by the petitioner that the commissioners had violated the statute authorizing them to take land for such purposes as public playgrounds. The question was whether the statute should be interpreted to mean that the Park Commission...