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...England -- "Boston's Playground System," by J. Lee '83; "The Underground Railway," by W. H. Siebert...
...important case is now pending between the Boston Park commissioners and the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The trouble arose from an attempt by the Commissioners to seize a tract of land belonging to the Bussey Institution farm for use as a public playground. The attorney for Harvard at once filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to stop the proceeding; but on April 25 Judge Barker, of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, declined to issue the writ and dismissed the petition...
...Fellows of Harvard against the Boston Park Commissioners has been denied by Judge Barker of the Supreme Court. The petition was for a writ of certiorari to quash the proceedings of the Park Board in taking a tract of land belonging to the Bussey Institution farm for a public playground. The case is an interesting one and unusual in several particulars. It was contended by the petitioner that the commissioners had violated the statute authorizing them to take land for such purposes as public playgrounds. The question was whether the statute should be interpreted to mean that the Park Commission...
...Pierian Sodality, assisted by Miss Viola Campbell of Cambridge, and E. M. Waterhouse '97, gave a concert in the Y. M. C. A. Hall, Providence, R. I. The Union of Practical Progress had charge of the concert and the proceeds will be devoted to a fund for a summer playground in Providence. The programme was as follows...
...Miss Viola Campbell and E. M. Waterhouse '97, will give a concert in the Y. M. C. A. Hall, Providence, R. I. The concert will be given under the auspices of the Union of Practical Progress, and the proceeds will be devoted to a fund for a summer playground in Providence...