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Title: Historic Boston and its neighborhood ; an historical pilgrimage personally conducted
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909
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Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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own up to keep the 82 HISTORIC BOSTON. English from invading Cambridge by way ofCharles River. As late as the end of the last century—say in 1790, or thereabouts—this very DanaHill was offered to the college, it is said, foronly five thousand dollars. Alas and alas—there were no ^ve thousand dollars ! Presi-dent Eliot would find it easier today tocollect five million dollars for the collegethan it would have been then to collect ^vethousand. If, by good fortune, some angelin heaven had dropped a gold nugget worth^ve thousand dollars—say a hundred andfifty ounces of gold (less than ten pounds)—and if the president had picked it up, and hadbought Dana Farm—why, the college to-daywould have a home as large as any of herWestern sisters. But this was not to be. So you see theyard, as we call it—never the campus —isnot so big as it would be in Nebraska. Here is Wadsworth, and here the Brown-ing-loving conductor drops us. The dear oldhouse is nearly two centuries old; and you
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HARVARD COLLEGE. 83 and I, Mrs. Ingliam, may be glad if we everlive in a better. The government of tlie col-lege, whicli was then really the State govern-ment, wanted the minister of the First Churchin Boston for president of the college. Buthe ^vould not go to Cambridge unless theywould build him a fit home. So they builtthis home for him. It is a good type of thearchitecture of 1700. You see it has thecomfortable and convenient gambrel roof ofthat time. I met a lady yesterday who told me shehad read with interest of the life and work ofMonsieur Mansard, the French architect, andshe asked where she should find the life ofMonsieur Gambrel. For our purposes his is abetter roof, not to say more picturesque, thanthe French Mansard. See this fine old balus-trade to the stairways. And what panelingthey had! This handsome parlor on the leftis the ministers room. Here, every day, interm time, from nine to twelve, the minister in residence sits—writes to his wife, per-haps, in far Duluth, o

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