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250th Anniversary of the Settlement of Cambridge 1881
250th Anniversary of the Settlement of Cambridge
By Cambridge University Press: John Wilson and Son
Hard Cover
163 pages
Copyright 1881
TABLE OF CONTENTS
NTRODUCTORY NOTE 7
Invited Guests 12
FORM OF INVITATION 14
THE CELEBRATION 15
THE MORNING EXERCISES 19
Prayer by the Rev. A. P. Peabody, D.D. 21
Opening Address by Mayor J. M. W. Hall 22
Address by President Charles W. Eliot 25
Remarks by Henry W. Longfellow 29
" From my Armchair" 30
Poem by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes 32
" Home " 33
THE AFTERNOON EXERCISES 39
Prayer by the Rev. William Newell, D.D. 40
Oration by Thomas Wentworth Higginson 44
THE BANQUET 69
Opening Address by Mayor J. M. IV. Hall 71
Response by Collector A. W. Beard 79
Response by Dr. William Everett 85
" Naming Cambridge, 1636 " 86
THE BANQUET, continued.
Response by Governor John D. Long 88
Response by President Charles W. Eliot 94
Response by the Hon. John W. Candler 98
Response by the Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D D 104
Response by Col. T. W. Higginson 111
Response by the Hon. H. O. Houghton 114
Response by the Hon. Charles H. Saunders 118
CORRESPONDENCE 124
APPENDIX 129
Memorial Tablets in Cambridge 131
Cambridge, 1630-1880 138
Government of the City of Cambridge, 1880 153
Chronological Catalogue 156
INDEX 157
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 29
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 32
LOWELL'S HOUSE 57
LONGFELLOW'S HOUSE 58
THE HOLMES HOUSE 62
THE MEMORIAL HALL AND THE SANDERS THEATRE 97
JOHN WINTHROP 104
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL 127
THE WASHINGTON ELM AND THE SHEPARD MEMORIAL CHURCH 137
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
BY order of the City Council the following record is printed of the proceedings by the city of Cambridge in
commemorating her two hundred and fiftieth birthday, - a record, it is hoped, that will be worthy of a permanent place beside the other volumes that picture the proud memories of this famous city. The celebration, five years ago, of the one hundredth anniversary of Washington's taking command of the Continental army, revived, and has kept fresh in the public mind, the memorable events that associate Cambridge with the Revolution ; but in the incidents of her earlier days, - the struggles and triumphs of her founders, - people had taken but little interest. No anniversary day of the settlement had ever been publicly observed. It seemed proper, therefore, upon the quarter-millennial of her existence, to celebrate the city's beginning, and, without singling out for especial emphasis her Revolutionary renown, to make a retrospect of her entire career. The first publicly to call attention to the desirability of improving the opportunity thus presented was Alderman Moses G. Howe. As early as June 2, 1880, he introduced the subject to the Board of Aldermen, and advocated some form of celebration. His suggestions were approved by the other members of the Board, and the same evening an order was adopted for the appointment of a, joint special committee, consisting of the Mayor, the President of the Common Council, two Aldermen, and three Councilmen, to consider in what manner the anniversary should be commemorated.
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