The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1877-08-29

The medical lectures are delivered in the
Medical College in Boston, which college is
properly branch of Harvard. The building
will accommodate several hundred students,
has large anatomical museum, and we'll
selected medical library. It is located on
North Grove street, on the route leading out
to Cambridge, and is near the Massachusetts,
General Hospital thus afforiiDg students a
fine opportunity to witness interesting cases.
There is painful history connected with this
medical college /, it was the scene Of the MUIR
der of DR.. George Parkman, by DR.. John w.
Webster, on the s3d of Nov, 1S49. Dr. Park
man was gentleman of wealth residing 10
Boston, who had loaned DR. Webster, the
Professor of Chemistry at Harvard College,
sum Of money which he had made repeated
attempts to obtain. On the day above nam
ed, he called at DR.. Webster's Office, In the
medical college, and demanded the money.
II was refused, and high words passed be-
tween the two, whom DR.. Webster struck DR..
Parkman with stick near at hand and kill
cd him. Dir. Webster then attempted to do
stroy the body, BY burning q part and throw
ing the remainder into the College vault. The
disappearance Of Dr. Parkman caused intense
excitement, and efforts were made to find a
trace of him, but without success, until the
janitor discovered the remains in tho vault
Webster was Immediately arrested, tried,
found guilty, and executed. Before he died
he confessed that he had killed DR.. Parkman.
Harvard College is the most richly endowed
college in the country It received many ben
efactions from wealthy persons in England be-.
fore the Revolution, and both before and
since that time, has received large sums from
the State and private individuals
+ Nearly opposite the college buildings is the
Common, near the northwest corner of which
is the famous Washington Elm. Beneath this
tree General Washington first drew his sword
as Commander-in -Chief of the American ar
my, on the morning of July Sd, 1775. OBJ
served that great efforts were being made to
check tho ravages time was making upon the
noble old tree. A piece of zinc covered q
huge scar made by one Of its branches being
torn off by q violent storm. Every seam was
carefully closed with some sort of rosin. A
grdle intended as an impossible barrier for
insects encircled the trunk. The ground
around the roots is kept moist yet, in spite
of all these precautions, the days Of the old
tree are evidently numbered. ssa
Cambridge is naturally divided into four
parts Old Cambridge; which contains the
colleges and Mount Auburn Cemetery, also
several of the largest printing offices and ster-
eotype foundries in the country [; North Cam
bridge, principally noted for its cattle fairs,
where immense numbers Of cattle are sold
weekly Cambridgeport, which contains the
City Hall East Cambridge, which contains
the works Of the New England and Bay State
Glass Companies, and is devoted to manufac-
turing to a greater extent than any other por-
ton of the city. Taking the whole town,
with its shaded Streets its elegant private res
licences, its stately public ediices, its beauti-
full drives, and its grand old University, did
not wonder that James RUSSELL Lowell should
say in one of his essays. tsI know one person
who is singular enough to think Cambridge
the very best spot on the habitable globe
Doubtless God could have made better, but
doubtless he never did,"
In our next Communication We viii speak
of the home of Longfelow.
(To BE Continued