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Abbot, Ezra, 68.
Agassiz, Louis, excites the spirit of research, 74; his school for young ladies, 74, 209-211; his personality, 74.
Agassiz,
Mrs. Louis, plans her husband's school, 200; president of Radcliffe College, 180.
Aldermen, 401.
Allston,
Washington, 41.
Allston Street, fort at foot of, 27.
Almshouses, 17, 32, 276.
American Lodge, K. of P., 292.
Amicable Lodge of Masons, 280-283.
Amity Rebekah Lodge, 286.
Andover, college library and apparatus moved to, 26.
Anniversary committees, 406-408.
Appleton,
Rev. Nathaniel, 236; the Revolution the great event in his ministry, 237; church lands sold in his time, 237; gifts to, 237; salary, 237.
Arlington, 9.
Assessors, 402.
Assets and liabilities, comparative statement of, 319.
Assistants, Council of, 5, 23.
Associated Charities, its beginning, 259; its aim, 259; organization, 259; registrar appointed, 259; visiting, 259; conferences, 259; the society incorporated, 260; officers and agents, 260; central office, 260; woodyard, 260; a work test, 260; cooperation needed, 261; expenses, 261.
Astronomy and astronomers, 75, 76.
Athenaeum, the
Cambridge, 228.
Athenaeum Press, The, 337-339.
Auditor, City, 402.
Avon Home, opened on Avon Place, 262; original board of trustees, 262; name, 262; endowment, 262; call for contributions, 262; the house enlarged, 262; beginning of the permanent fund, 263; new building erected on Mt.
Auburn Street, 2632; the founder's gift of a farm, 263; cost of maintenance, 263; income, 263; inmates, 263; matron, 264; number cared for, 264; its influence, 264.
Banks: Cambridgeport National, 302;
Lechmere, 303;
National City, 303;
Charles River National, 304; First National, 305; Cambridge National, 307; Cambridge Safe Deposit and Trust Co., 307; Cambridge Savings, 309; Cambridgeport Savings, 311; North Avenue Savings, 311; East Cambridge Savings, 312.
Baptist churches, 240.
Bears in
Cambridge, 9.
Beginnings of
Cambridge, The, 1-13.
Belcher,
Andrew, the first innkeeper, 11.
Belcher, Jonathan, royal governor, 11.
Berkeley Street School, 212.
Bigelow,
Dr. Jacob, 73.
Blue Anchor Tavern, 11.
Borland House, 28.
Boston, preeminence of, 1; not intended for seat of government, 1; assembling of General Court at, 2; means of communicating with, 4; troops stationed in, 20; granted authority to improve the river bank, 106; its city council opposes the construction of Harvard Bridge, 107; completes the Charlesbank, 107; no provision for girls in its early schools, 189; high school opened for girls in, 192.
Boston Massacre, 20..
Boston Porcelain and Glass Company, 30.
Boston Port Bill, 22.
Boston Tea-party, 22.
Bounties for wolves, 9.
‘Bower of
Bliss, The,’ 37.
Bowers, Benanuel, declares himself a Baptist, 12; fined and imprisoned for entertaining Quakers, 12; turns
Quaker, 12; sends verses to Thomas Danforth, 12; harangues the people in the meeting-house, 13.
Bradstreet,
Mrs., the ponderous verses of, 2.
Bradstreet,
Simon, site of his house, 2.
Braintree Street, 3, 6; name changed to Harvard, S.
Brattle, General, notifies
Gage of removal of powder from
Charlestown,
