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Title: The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Gilman, Arthur, 1837- (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Cambridge, Mass. (from old catalog) Cambridge, Mass. -- History. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Cambridge, Riverside press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ng panel, throughwhich the host thrust any potations demanded by the guests inthe parlor. There was held, in the rear room, I remember, amoderately convivial spread in 1840, given by the speakersat an exhibition, — a sort of intermediate CommencementDay, long since discontinued, — in which I, as the orator of theday, was supposed to take a leading part, although in fact I onlycontributed towards the singing, the speaking, and the paymentof the bills. At that time the population of the whole townhad expanded to 8409, rather more than one third of this being.in what is now Ward One. It is hard to convey an impression of the smallness of thethen Cambridge in all its parts and the fewness of its houses.The house in which I was born in 1823, and which had beenbuilt by my father, was that at the head of Kirkland Street,then Professors Rowr, — the house now occupied by Mrs. F.C. Batchelder. The field opposite, now covered largely byMemorial Hall, was then an open common, where I remem-
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THE BOWER OF BLISS. 37 ber to have seen the students climbing or swinging on Dr.Charles Follens outdoor gymnastic apparatus; or perhapsforming to trot away with him at double-quick, their handsclenched at their sides, across the country. The rest of theDelta was covered with apple-trees, whose fruit we boys usedto discharge at one another from pointed sticks. Looking downProfessors Row we could see but four houses, the open roadthen proceeding to Somerville. On Quincy Street there was nohouse between Professors Row and Broadway, and we used toplay in what was said to be an old Indian cornfield, where theNew Church Theological School now stands. Between QuincyStreet and Cambridgeport lay an unbroken stretch of woodsand open fields, and the streets were called roads, — theCraigie Road and the Clark Road, now Harvard Street andBroadway, each with one house on what was already calledDana Hill. Going north from my fathers house, there werenear it the Holmes House and one or two smaller h

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