Word: tradesmen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...something to thwart the malignant Providence which foists it upon us. Whether or no Cambridge has an ordinance commanding the clearing of walks, it still remains the duty of property owners to make them as usable as possible. On the southern side of Massachusetts avenue, where the tradesmen hold sway, the going is fairly good; but on the northern side, the domain of the Corporation, it is abominable. In the Yard, most of the board walks are now visible, but not through any human effort. And the contrast between the southern and northern shores of Massachusetts avenue does not favor...
After holding the titles of bachelor and master in Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England, John Harvard probably landed in Massachusetts in the year 1637. Trained in a centre of Puritanism, with ancestors who were Puritans by faith, and tradesmen by calling, he naturally found his way into a colony in which at least 70 of the leading men, divines and laymen, were also graduates of Emmanuel College...