Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...asking information as to the existence of malaria in the region about the Soldiers Field;- the Board examined the territory, in which the Field is situated, in 1893, and found the following conditions, as reported by the inspector who made the examination. The only place in the neighborhood where any cases were known to have occurred, was at Barry's Corner, where it was stated that there had been six cases in the course of three years. With reference to the Soldiers Field itself I quote the inspector's words...
...have made inquiries of the chairman of the Board of Health of the City of Boston with reference to reported malarial disease in the neighborhood in question, and he reports that he has no knowledge of its existence in that district...
...graduating class time to entertain their guests more fittingly and to enjoy the exercises themselves as they have not been able to do for several years. It would heighten the enjoyment of a very large majority of the guests and inconvenience very few. Those visitors who live in the neighborhood of Boston could as easily come to Cambridge two days as one if they cared to attend both days. To those who come from a distance one day more or less would make little difference...
Though the difficulty of procuring a suitable course will to some extent hamper the college club which is to be formed, there are several clubs in the neighborhood of Cambridge which allready include numbers of Harvard men among their members. Several of these men are players of considerable ability and experience, and there should be no difficulty in getting together a strong team to represent the College...
...Cambridge, men have acted as volunteer visitors in poor families. In the Children's Aid Society more than a dozen men have regularly superintended Home Libraries.- small libraries placed in the homes of poor families and constantly renewed, the membership of each library including ten children from the neighborhood, and the volunteer visitor meeting with the group in the home of the librarian weekly. Half a dozen boys' clubs in the poorest parts of Boston and Cambridge have been partly manned by students...