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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...house was standing when on April 19, 1775, Lord Percy marched up North Avenue with reinforcements for Pitcairn who was retreating from Concord. Within a stone's throw stood the Holmes house in which the poet was born and which was torn down a few years ago to make room for the Law School building. The doors and window sashes are the same that were originally put into the house, and in the transom over the door are five lights of old English bull's eye glass...
...LLOYD, Sec.LOST.- A gold-mounted calligraphic pen. Finder will please send address to 37 Concord avenue...
...historic bridge at Concord, which marked the spot where the "embattled farmers fought in 1775, was carried away by the high water in the river...
...gentlemen of Harvard, are you aware of the fact that your college is in America and within a few miles of Lexington and Concord? Is it not a strange teaching that you give, by implication at least, when you exclude from your lis's every American writer's works? What inference must a student draw who comes to you saturated with Emerson, lovingly familiar with Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes and Lowell, knowing Irving and Hawthorne by heart, ready to write essays by the score on Cooper, Sylvester Judd and Brockden Brown, or to discuss the works of Paulding, Poe, Prescott, Motley...
...sixth hare and hound run of the season was held yesterday afternoon, the course being up Concord avenue to Fresh Pond and around the pond. The break was from the west end of Mt. Auburn. Kuhn and Alexander, L. S., the hares, came in twenty-nine minutes ahead of F. B. Dana, '88, the first hound in. Davenport, '90, was a few seconds behind Dana. The rest of the twenty hounds came in well bunched close after the leader. Dana, '88, served as master of the hounds. The run was one of the best of the season...