The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-04-24
THE COMING BIENNIAL CONVEN-
TON IN BOSTON.
A Glimpse of Cambridge.

A Glimpse of Cambridge.
The club women who gather at the
great Biennial in Symphony Hall
next June will not be slow to dis
cover that Massachusetts avenue
where they stand is the historic high
way which soon crosses the river
Charles at Harvard Bridge, and,
richer than any other road in Revo-
lutionary landmark and memories,
leads the traveller along the way the
British soldiers marched in ITS,
from Boston through Cambridge to
Lexington and Concord.
Cambridge, the Newe Towne" of
1881, is hardly outranked even by
Boston in her wealth of historic and
literary traditions. Here in 1888 the
first printing press was set up, and
for forty years all the printing done
in America was at Cambridge. Still
more significant, here In 1888 the
first college in America was founded.
Those sturdy Puritans from Lin
colnshire in old England, many of
them graduates from Cambridge Uni
versity, were chiefly concerned that
learning may not be buried in the
graves of our fathers" and already
in 1884 had established in Boston
grammar school. Next came proyi-
sion for the higher education, by the
orders of the General Court and the
memorable bequest of John Harvard.
AS we enter the main gate at Har-
ward, we read their own words "Af-
ter God had carried VS. safe to New
England and wee had bvilded ovr
hoves, provided necessaries for ovr
liveli hood, reard convenient places
for Gods worship and settled the civil
government, one of the next things
we longed for and looked after was
to advance learning and perpetvate it
to posterity, dreading to leave an IL
literate ministry to the churches
when ovr present ministers shall lie
in the dvst.''
AS we pass through one of the
many fine memorial gates into the
beautiful old Harvard Yard with its
great elms and venerable buildings,
we rejoice that this earliest and
greatest of American universities has
never faltered in it's mission "to ad-
vance learning"
Among the innumerable attrac-
lions of Fair Harvard, some are
unique and should not be missed
such as the Germanic Art Museum,
containing the gifts of the German
emperor; Memorial Hall, where over
thousand students dine together,
surrounded by a beautiful memorial
windows, pictures and busts the
wonderful Blaschka glass flowers,
never to be duplicated; and, by way
OF contrast, the famous stadium |
where intercollegiate football and
Greek plays draw their tens of thou
sands Of delighted spectators
Colonial, Revolutionary, and lite
erary memories cluster thick in |
That SCARED veteran.
the Washington Elm, still shades the
spot where Washington first took
of the American Army, but
nowhere in Cambridge are the
threads of historic and literary in
terest so closely interviewer as in
The fine colonial mansion known as
the Longfellow House. Built in
1853 by the rich Tory, Colonel Vas
sail, 1t wa soccupied by General
as headquarters during
he siege of Boston, and it was also
sraced by the presence of his wife.
Then after a long succession of own
srs and tenants, many of them known
% fame, 1t finally became the home
If the poet Longfellow and notable
centre of college and literary society.
Not far away Is Elmwood, another
colonial mansion, the goal of many
literary pilgrimages, the birthplace
Ind lifelong home of James Russell
DWELL. Mount Auburn, close at
land, was the first garden cemetery
n the country, and the long roll of
lstinguished dead who lie buried
here attracts continuous line of
'everent visitors. |,
The up-to-date college and club
woman will especially value the priv
lege, while in Cambridge, of visit
ng Radcliffe College and the Canta-
riga Club, shining exemplars of
modern opportunity for women. f.,
1t was fitting that, as Harvard
vas named for the man who gave
he first bequest to the college. so.
vhen the Harvard Annex for Girls
ecame recognized and successful :
art of the university, 1t should, as
radcliffe College, honor the name of
he woman who in 1643 gave the
lrst scholarship to Harvard. The
Inc group of buildings belonging to t
tadcliffe are opposite the Washing '
on Elm.
The Cantabriga Club is one of the d
many large and ancient clubs which
re the pride of the Massach usetts v
federation. For fifteen years 1t has v
cen recognized power in Cam {
ridge, and has made some notable v
to the civic welfare. 8
mong them $4,000 scholarship at a
.adcliffe for the benefit Of Cambridge +
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