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Dates: during 1870-1879
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JARVIS FIELD will not be ready for ball-playing next spring. All ball matches will be played in town. The Common will be the practice-ground...
MASSACHUSETTS. - (488 students.) - A person may vote who has resided one year within the State, and six months within the city or town in which he offers his vote, and has paid a tax within two years, provided he is able to read the Constitution in the English language, and write his name...
Last Friday, one of the hottest days of the season thus far, witnessed the summer meeting of the Athletic Association on Jarvis Field. A large number of ladies from town honored the athletes with their presence, and that portion of the seats which was reserved for them formed one of the most attractive features of the afternoon, and was a sight well worth the trouble of a much longer walk than that from the Yard to Jarvis Field...
...bridge to the Athens of to-day, without walking streets which are as rich in historic associations and priceless traditions of virtue as any old burgh in Europe. In fact, we can conceive of no higher pleasure of the kind than tracing out the locality of Hawthorne's famous "Town Pump," Longfellow's "Wayside Inn," Copp's Hill or the Old Granary Burying-Ground, Church Green, Webster's, Franklin's, or Hancock's old mansions. The razing of Fort Hill; the loss of the famous Brattle Street Church, with its British cannon-ball buried in its face; of the Paddock...
...World teems with historic memories; every town has its castle or chateau, every river its famous bridge: but here relics of the past are fewer, and when met with deserve a visit. Modern progress seems hostile to their existence; the tower, rock, and tree of ancient renown are generally neglected; the old gateway and mansion often fall before the encroachments of a railway or a turnpike...