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Title: The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Gilman, Arthur, 1837- (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Cambridge, Mass. (from old catalog) Cambridge, Mass. -- History. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Cambridge, Riverside press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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. The presidentis the Rev. James Reed of Boston (H. U. 1855) ; the writer(H. U. 1866) is in immediate charge, and resides upon theGreenough estate. Students in residence generally live in the Sparks house,which has also two lecture-rooms. Beside the students in Cam-bridge, there are some who follow the course in their distanthomes, especially as a test of their fitness to become regularstudents. The school gives its diploma to full graduates; other stu-dents receive a certificate of work performed. The funds of the school, like all else in connection with it,are merely sufficient for present needs ; but, as the chairman ofthe trustees, Chief Justice Mason, lately said, Our school isnot rich, and it is not poor. At the time when the Cambridge location was decided upon,such generosity as the university has shown was not expected ;but the original good reasons for the step have been augmentedby the general kindness which has been shown to the school byall with whom it comes into contact.
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THE ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF CAMBRIDGE. By WILLIAM TAGGARD PIPER. The Associated Charities of Cambridge owes its beginningto Dr. Charles E. Vaughan, who, being an overseer of the poor,and also interested in other benevolent work, saw the need andthe opportunity for an organization which should investigateapplications for relief, record the results of such investigation,furnish the information thus obtained to those who were en-gaged in relief work, and should also endeavor to improve thecondition of the unfortunate through the suggestions and adviceof volunteer visitors. To carry out all these objects is the aim of the AssociatedCharities, and to form such a society Dr. Vaughan arranged fora meeting in the spring of 1881. At a meeting held later acommittee was formed of which Mr. J. B. Warner was chair-man ; Dr. Ephraim Emerton, secretary; Mr. Henry N. Tilton,treasurer; and the members came from all parts of Cambridge.A somewhat more formal organization was made in Decemberof that year

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