Word: west
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SOME fate, unpropitious to the West End, seems to attend the placing of statues in Boston. Some one has already pointed out the bad taste displayed in putting Edward Everett in the Public Garden with his back to Beacon Street. George Washington has turned his steed from Beacon Hill, and is riding toward Natick. Even the Good Samaritan has "passed by on the other side"; and now the Genius of America on the top of the Monument has turned her back on that high-toned part of the city, and is facing that benighted region known as the South...
...fellow-travellers I can at present give you very little idea. The West seems to be well represented. There is a quiet man from Bowdoin, and opposite my state-room there are two dropped "Sophs" from Harvard. One of them is from California, - wonderful country that! - and is addicted to punning. He told me casually that unless they gave him better "grub" than he had at Memorial, he would rough (Woodruff) the expedition...
...students will stop breaking the glass in the entry windows, steam is to be put into East, West, and Reunion Halls. The last year's bill for glass...
...Peabody Museum has been moved to its new quarters, opposite Divinity. The room formerly occupied by this collection is being fitted up for the mineralogical cabinet, and hence the new windows on the west side of Boylston...
...Ryder, Sargent, Sawyer, Seamans, Sherman, Shippen, Sloane, Smiley, A. E. Smith, D. E. Smith, F. W. Smith, Sprague, Starr, Stetson, Stiles, Stone, Stringham, Strobel, G. N. Swift, L. Swift, Sykes, F. H. Taylor, W. R. Taylor, Thomas, Tiffany, Tillinghast, Tower, Twombly, Tyler, Underwood, Wakefield, Wallace, Warren, Wellington, Wells, Wendell, West, Wetmore, F. G. Wheeler, H. Wheeler, White, G. A. Whiting, H. Whiting, Whitney, Williams, Willison, Wiswell, Woodbury, Woodman, Woods, Worthington, Wright, Young. - Total...