Word: playground
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There is good skating today on Spy Pond at Arlington, Franklin Park at Roxbury, Roslindale Playground, Upper Mill Pond at Waverley, Charles River at Norumbega Park, and the Cambridge Skating Club. The ice is in fair condition at the Public Garden, Cambridge Artificial, and Billings Field at West Roxbury...
...East Boston, Neponset Play-ground, Billings Field at West Roxbury, Gibson Play-ground, Strandway Play-ground, Franklin Field, First Street Play-ground at South Boston, Roslindale Play-ground, North Brighton Play-ground, Scarboro Pond and Jamaica Pond. The condition of the ice is fair on the Columbus Avenue Playground...
There is good skating today on Wood Island Pond at East Boston. Billings Field at West Roxbury, First Street Playground at South Boston, Roslindale Play-ground, North Brighton Play-ground, the Charlesbank, and on the rink of the Cambridge Skating Club. The condition of the ice is fair on Franklin Field at Franklin Park, Boston, and on the Charlestown Play-ground...
...England -- "Boston's Playground System," by J. Lee '83; "The Underground Railway," by W. H. Siebert...
...important case is now pending between the Boston Park commissioners and the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The trouble arose from an attempt by the Commissioners to seize a tract of land belonging to the Bussey Institution farm for use as a public playground. The attorney for Harvard at once filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to stop the proceeding; but on April 25 Judge Barker, of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, declined to issue the writ and dismissed the petition...