Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . COLONNADE ROW, WHICH STOOD OX TREMONT STREETSOUTH OF WEST STREET, OPPOSITE THE LEONARD VASSALL HOUSE, SUMMER STREET, ON THESITE NOW OCCUPIED BY HOVEYs STORE. IN OLD BOSTON 9 by no means ready yet to provide highereducation for the poorer classes. There wasa great hue and cry because many young Irishgirls, who had entered the High School andproved to be fine scholars, were unwilling,after enjoying this taste of culture, to becomedomestic servants. Public opinion was verystrong on this i
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . COLONNADE ROW, WHICH STOOD OX TREMONT STREETSOUTH OF WEST STREET, OPPOSITE THE LEONARD VASSALL HOUSE, SUMMER STREET, ON THESITE NOW OCCUPIED BY HOVEYs STORE. IN OLD BOSTON 9 by no means ready yet to provide highereducation for the poorer classes. There wasa great hue and cry because many young Irishgirls, who had entered the High School andproved to be fine scholars, were unwilling,after enjoying this taste of culture, to becomedomestic servants. Public opinion was verystrong on this issue. For the first time, wecatch a glimpse of that anti-Irish-Catholicfeeling which culminated in the burning of theUrsuline Convent in 1834. During Mr. Quincys second term he had thehonor of receiving and entertaining GeneralLafayette, who was made the guest of the cityand was sumptuously entertained in the build-ing at the corner of Park and Beacon Streets,later known as the home of George have elsewhere ^ described in detail the eventsof this visit of Washingtons friend; sufficeit here, therefore, merely to say that the Generalwas escorted (Tuesday, August 22, 1824) t
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