St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-01
RAMBLES IN NEW ENGLAND.
Three Days Passed in and About BOs-
ton Among the BOstOnese.
What was Seen and What was Suggested by
the Vision.
A University, Back Bay, Hotels and Mis-
cellaneOus Appendix.
Especial Correspondence of the Globe.l


II just OCCuIS 10 me hudL great amount
of injustice is done the ladies by the ridicule
heaped upon them for never being able to
complete a letter without making a post
script. Why should not a lady have the
privilege of adding something omitted, or
forgotten, and what is to prevent the P. 8.
from being the choicest part of her letter.
1t is strange that should have parsed so
many years and never thought about coming
TO the rescue Of the postscript sex before.
Possibly should not have thought Of it now
if it were not that my record of ''three days
in and about Boston," cannot be made COM
p!ete without an appendix. Far be it from
me to intimate that it is from any motives
of self defence that the propriety of post
scripts has been thus recognized, and l ac-
cordingly bow my acknowledgements to the
ladies, who will shower down thanks upon
my devoted head for this clearly disinterested
vindication of one of their inalienable rights.
There is great excuse or provocation 1--WE
use words indiscriminately in Boston, in my
case, however, for the reason that the sec
ton of country visited, having had couple
OF hundred years the start of me, ought to
have 4 good deal to show during q three
days inspection. And then a person who
has grown up in the ''Rowdy West" ought to
be able to discover good deal of interest in
the very hot bed of ''culchaw.''
HARVARD.
While it takes a native Bostonese several
years to ''go through Harvard my time was
too limited to emulate the illustrious example
and my going through that institution some
what resembIed the flying trapeze act of
comet, which switches IFS tail through the
heavens with brilliant flash. Modesty ought
to impel me at this juncture, to say that 1
am aiming at no brilliant" point or claim
in the comparison, but l long since learned
that it don't pay to be modest ana hence l
say nothing on this point, but merely call
attention to it in passing for fear the casual
reader might overlook it.
The famous Harvard University is located
in the venerable old town OF Cambridge.
Cambridge wears all the air of a large New
England village. The houses are, in very
many cases, large square frame edifices with
ample dooryards. luxurious shade trees, and
flowers and surroundings indicative of con-
tentment and refinement. You leave the
hustle of Boston and in few minutes ride,
either by carriage or street car, you reach
the spot made famous by the great
University. II is city all the
way, but there is such gradual blending of
city and country, or (as We Interchange our
selves in Boston, might say snch an elimi-
nation of the city and development of the
village, that without being aware of the
transformation scene in progress the visitor
finds himself in the comparative quiet of a
large town, where but moment before he
was in a confusion of streets and steeples,
and squares and monuments, and an indis-
criminate mixture Of horse cars describing
circles in straight lines or INDUCING in
other paraholic symbols.
1t was 24S years ago that the colony of
Massachusetts resolved to have a college and
a school was started by man named Eaton
which was very similar TO the one made
famous Tor infamous) by Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby. Mr.. Eaton was verit-
able Wackford Squeers, and the college,
did not flourish. Two years latter Rev.
John Harvard fortunately died. People
are so much in the habit of leaving their
means to be expended after death
that mortality often becomes great
boon Mr.. Harvard lived in CharlestowD
and as the college, had nominal existence
he bcqucathed it about So, 900 in money and
his library. Mr.. Harvard was, himself, a
graduate of Cambridge, England, and as 4
token of gratitude for donation which at
that time was as munifcent as half million
srprI1 ha tn-1ar- fha pn1laoa tyac
ward and the location was renamed Cam
bridge. / doubt whether any other instance
exists where a town and great public insti-
tuition spring from the same source
Ii was more than one hundred and fifty
years before the institution assumed any con-
siderable proportions, and the present gener-
alton of men recall the times when Josiah
Quincy, Edward Everett and Jared Sparks
were presidents of the University as the era.
when its fame grew most rapidly. Aud still,
like everything else in this great country, the
progress of the past twenty-five years has
eclipsed prior century, but being part of
the general progress it has not
been so noticeable. The students have
more than doubled since the war, the pro-
fessors have been increased nearly fifty per
cent. and all else in similar proportion
Harvard is older than Yale, but still it has
fresher look. Perhaps it is the venerable
row of stately elms which stand
in front of the long, old
brick building or row of buildings in New
Haven, which give Yale such an ancient
aspect in spite of the numerous modern and
elegant buildings which com
prise other portions of that
great institution. However this may
be, think if a wild EnglIshman, who didn't
Engiishmen don't, should drop down on the
two institutions he would award the ryi,aa
fqeie claim for age to Yale. II is true that my
brief sojourn among the Bostonese has moth
ing particular to do with Yale college, but
want my Bunker Hill friends to understand
that their world is not all the world, after all.
There are between forty and fifty buildings
at present occupied by the University in all
lis various departments. The oldest now in
use, Massachusetts Hail. erected in IT'S,
and the latest the ''New Law school,
erected in 1888. Still other buildings are
planned and funds are being secured for
their erection. This great University is
literal exem plidcation of the Scriptural
remark ito him that hath shall be
given Beginning with the $4,000
donation by Rev. John Harvard
which was in due time supplemented by
80, 600 year for ten years from the state,
the growth of the institution has been one
constant series Of donations. Christopher
Gore gave library building at a cost OF
$40, 900. The library itself has over 2OO, 900
volumes, most Of which have been secured
by donations from graduates. VIM.
Gray, who graduated over half a century
ago, started the library ball rolling by