Days and ways in old Boston . e my birth my father had built a house,which is still standing, at the head of what wasthen called Professors Row, but is now knownas Kirkland Street. This led directly to EastCambridge which formed a separate village, andI remember once driving there with my father inthe family chaise. My elder brother, who was in college at thesame time that Wendell Phillips was, used to saythat Phillips was the only student of that periodfor whom the family carriage was habituallysent out to Cambridge on Saturday morning tobring him into Boston for Sunday. On one end of Boston
Days and ways in old Boston . e my birth my father had built a house,which is still standing, at the head of what wasthen called Professors Row, but is now knownas Kirkland Street. This led directly to EastCambridge which formed a separate village, andI remember once driving there with my father inthe family chaise. My elder brother, who was in college at thesame time that Wendell Phillips was, used to saythat Phillips was the only student of that periodfor whom the family carriage was habituallysent out to Cambridge on Saturday morning tobring him into Boston for Sunday. On one end of Boston Common, near ParkStreet, there was once a playground where mycousins used to go and play ball; and when Iwent into Boston, I used often to go there andwatch the game. They played with larger ballsand larger bats than they donow and one of my cousins wasa leader in all the games. The East India trade still lin-gered in Boston, I remember,and Cambridge boys were some-times sent to sea as a punish-ment or a cure for Wendell Phillips Days and Ways in Old Boston Groups of sailors sometimes strayed throughCambridge and there were aromatic smells aboutthe Boston wharves. My boyish friends were generally connectedwith college families; but I remember one boyalone with whom I was forbidden to associate. Iam now inclined to doubt whether he had com-mitted any greater offence than that of havinggone to sea, and having brought back a Httle morefreedom of language than was used by the otherboys. I remember also that we used as a play-ground the large triangle of land which is nowoccupied by Memorial Hall, but then was usedas an out-door gymnasium, constructed by theGerman professor, Dr. FoUen. There were re-mains of the ladders and pits he had arranged andwe used these pits to hold the collection of appleswhich we brought home as we came from little later, as we grew older, we constructed aminiature post office in one of the gardens alongthe road where I lived, where
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