Cambridge Sketches - Paperback

by Frank Preston Stearns (Author)

Cambridge Sketches is a collection of essays written by Frank Preston Stearns, an American author and historian. The book provides a detailed description of the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and its history. The essays cover a wide range of topics, including the founding of Harvard University, the role of Cambridge in the American Revolution, and the lives of famous Cambridge residents such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Stearns also describes the architecture and landmarks of the city, including Harvard Yard, Mount Auburn Cemetery, and the Cambridge Common. The book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of Cambridge and its role in American culture and society.Doctor Holmes graduated at Harvard in 1829 at the age of twenty. His class has been a celebrated one in Boston, and there were certainly some good men in it, --especially Benjamin Pierce and James Freeman Clarke, -- but I think it was Doctor Holmes's class-poems that gave it its chief celebrity, which, after all, means that it was a good deal talked about.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original wor