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Focuses on the origin and growth of Boston, Massachusetts' newspaper "Boston Phoenix." Influence of the newspaper on Boston' liberal paper "Globe"; Difficulties faced by the paper over editorial content and management; Operating losses suffered by the "Boston Phoenix"; Circulation of the newspaper in 1972.

Boston, located in Massachusetts, is the abandoned farm of American literature, journalistically it is the poor-farm of the U.S. Nothing in Boston astonishes foreigners more than its press, nothing more clearly illustrates the passing of what was once the Athens of the U.S. To understand in full the degradation of its dailies one must know the extraordinary transformation which has come over the stronghold of the Puritans, one must realize that the Boston of today has comparatively little in common with that of forty years ago.

The 126th meeting of the American Oriental Society was held in Boston, Massachusetts and Cambridge on April 16 and 17, 1914. The attendance was somewhat smaller than usual, though all the leading institutions at which Oriental studies are carried on were represented. The two sessions on Thursday and the one on Friday morning were held in the handsome quarters of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, admirably adapted for gatherings of scientific bodies, while the session on Friday afternoon was in the Phillips Brooks House at Harvard. Preceding the reading of papers there was a short business meeting, at which various reports were read and the more important correspondence with foreign scholars and institutions during the year.

This article presents news items, related to newspapers. When the late Leroy M. Bickford, of Boston, Massachusetts, provided recently in his will, that a copy of a Boston newspaper should be placed, daily, in every home in Newburg, Maine--his birthplace he doubtless thought that he was conferring "a great boon" upon the community in which he "first saw the light." It is painful to record the fact that the press throughout the country altogether fails to share his view. There is at least one Boston paper, which is establishing a position of curious prestige in the American press. The newspaper referred is the "Christian Science Monitor." It was the first newspaper, to record the serious general strike which broke out in Australia some months ago. That strike was sufficiently political in color to cause the censor to suppress all cable accounts of it, but the newspaper jogged along with a full report more than a week ahead of all other press dispatches on the subject.

The workers of Boston, Massachusetts, have built a house of which they are proud. Not many miles from Plymouth Rock on the shores of Massachusetts Bay it stands, a half-brick half-wooden bungalow, which an American workingman, assert may mean almost as much to future civilization as that rock. This house was undertaken at a time when building materials had reached the top notch and labor was still one dollar an hour. A foreman was elected and a building committee consisting of bricklayers, carpenters, steam fitters, plumbers, plasterers, and paper hangers was chosen.

The article highlights that managing editor Henrietta Perkins has recently denounced the R.O.T.C. unit at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. As managing editor of the college comic weekly, the Beanpot, she issued jokes devoted to the glories of the Boston University R.O.T.C. She displayed in this joke all the most seditious and dangerous qualities that a human being can have. The dean immediately demanded her resignation from the staff of the paper and suggested that action might be taken to remove her bodily from the college. The jokes were reprinted in the Boston press, the drawings were reproduced and Perkins was widely quoted.

Discusses the arrest of several men in Boston, Massachusetts on charges of arson, fraud, bribery and murder. Controversy over the involvement of several prominent individuals in the case; Misconceptions in the Boston case; Functions of the Symphony Tenants Organizing Project.

The article presents information on various developments of importance in the U.S. and other countries as of October 4, 1888. The city of Boston in Massachusetts has become greatly stirred up over the question of Roman Catholic influence in the conduct of public school. The provoking cause of the stir is the exclusion by the school committee of a text-book which members of the Catholic Church considered objectionable because of a reference to that church. The result is a general disposition on the part of women to avail themselves of the right to suffrage.

This article discusses the matter related to science. The autumn meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, held in Boston, Massachusetts November 20, 21, 22, 1906 in the new buildings at the Harvard Medical School, was notable in several respects. The papers presented by guests and members in the scientific sessions of the Academy included the following "Experiments in Aerodromics," by A.G. Bell of Washington, "Acoustic Measurements," by A.G. Webster of Clark University, "Continental Sedimentation," by J. Barrell at Yale, "Evidence of Desiccation in Chinese Turkestan," by Ellswort'h Huntington of Harvard, and others.

The Club of Odd Volumes of Boston has recently published "Isaiah Thomas, Printer, Writer & Collector," by Dr. Charles L. Nichols of Worcester. This is the substance of a paper read before the Club a year ago, which is here expanded by the addition at a carefully compiled bibliography of books printed by Thomas. He was apprenticed to Zechariah Fowle, owner of a single press and a few hundred pounds of type, when the lad was only seven years old, and he used to set type standing on a bench, in order that he might reach the eases, though he knew then only the letters, and had not been taught to put then together and spell.

This article presents information on the third annual meeting of the Modern Language Association of America which was held on December 29 and 30, 1886, in Boston, Massachusetts. The Association has a large membership, but many of the leading colleges and scientific schools are still unrepresented at its meetings. In this respect it fairly reproduces the prevailing interest in scientific and linguistic research. The papers presented covered a wide field, embracing the results of special investigations, methods of instruction, and the place of the modern languages in modem culture and in university education. At the earlier meetings the existence of the society was threatened by numerous representatives of schools and of fanciful methods of instruction, each of whom sought to give prominence to his theories, and this was followed by a warfare on the classics and classical culture.

The article states that the periodical "Liberator," has accomplished its goal. The Constitutional Amendment, which declared that slavery no longer existed in the U.S., was publicly ratified in season to be duly announced and welcomed in the issue of the periodical on December 22, which is Forefather's Day. The periodical was first published in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 1, 1831. The paper has not much more than doubled its size since then, but steadily, week by week, never failing in a single instance to come to time, it has dropped its water upon the nation's marble heart. Its tenacity has been as wonderful as its intensity. The abolition of chattel slavery was its aim and it never for a moment lost sight of it. There was a stern monotony in its issues that was like the pressure of fate.

There's a great deal of campus activism, but it hardly ever gets covered in the mainstream media. Sonya Huber of the Center for Campus Organizing, a Boston, Massachusetts-based training program and clearinghouse, claims there are as many students involved in social activism today as at any time since the late sixties, but it's spread around a lot of different issues. There's no single focal point, like Vietnam War or civil rights, so it's harder to see. which recruits students to support union organizing campaigns. In addition, close to half the student body is involved in community service projects.

The neighborhood surrounding Dudley Street, an avenue winding through Boston's Roxbury district, is one of the poorest in Massachusetts, with per capita income half that of Boston as a whole and unemployment at least twice as high. The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative has' been at work in this corner of Roxbury since 1985, pursuing, local residents' vision of their community as a safe, lively and close-knit urban village. The revitalization of Dudley Street began when La Alianza Hispana, a local social service agency, interested a small Boston-based trust in taking on the neighborhood as a major program.

Comments on an address made by Samuel Francis regarding U.S. domestic intelligence during a symposium held in Boston, Massachusetts. Popular approval as a justification for expanded surveillance; Reliance on executive power to surmount constitutional barriers; Francis' commitment to presidential Caesarism.

The article claims sarcastically that soon newspapers will be supplanted by the radio in Boston, Massachusetts. One of the correspondents says that he have before him the evening edition of one of the most successful newspapers of Boston and it contains not one thing that could not be announced by radio. He adds that it contains not even one item that would not be lost utterly without the printed page. In it there are fifty-three accounts, many illustrated, of class banquets, surprise parties, lodge anniversaries, costume parties, golden weddings, concerts, whist parties, club receptions, gift presentations, scout conferences, church reunions, salesmen's luncheons, checker tourneys and ladies' aid suppers.

The article presents information on political activities. The shooting on the Kent University campus has been compared to the Boston, Massachusetts, Massacre. Actually, on a scale of atrocity, Kent ranks higher. The Boston event has been distorted in school history books. One or another of the various amendments being proposed in the U.S. Senate to impose restrictions on so-called "Presidential Wars" will probably be adopted. Specialists in the U.S. State Department still suggest that the obstacles to recognition of Cuba boil down to the expropriation of American industrial plants, Cuba's "subversive" or guerrilla activities in other Latin American countries.

The article presents information on various publications. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania propose to issue a volume to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the adoption of the Federal Constitution. Roberts Brothers have in press a new book of social studies by Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton, entitled "Ourselves and Our Neighbors," The Proceedings of the Bostonian Society, just published, is of greater interest than those which have appeared in former years. In addition to the annual address of the President and the reports of the various committees, it contains a very carefully prepared catalogue of the numerous recent additions to the Society's collection of portraits and other objects of historical or antiquarian interest relating to Boston, Massachusetts.

The article presents information on various developments related to publishers and publishing. "The Art of the National Gallery," by Daniel D. Addison, to be published next fall by George Bell & Sons, London, will have for its American imprint the firm name of L.C. Page & Co., Boston. The Royal Society of the Antiquaries of Ireland have just put out the sixth number of their Antiquarian Handbook Series. During the last ten years they have organized excursions by sea to parts of the Irish shore and the north and west of Scotland.

Victoria Reggie Kennedy, wife of a senior Senator from Massachusetts, arrives for the annual Columbus Day Parade Committee dinner at Lombardo's, a venerable if slightly faded banquet hall in the heart of working-class East Boston. The diners fit the profile of what used to be the core Kennedy constituency— urban ethnic senior citizens of modest means. Many of them were given tickets by officeholders and community groups and came just for the meal. The first and most significant problem is that Kennedy is suffering from base rot.

Focuses on the electoral defeat of City Councilor Louis Day Hicks who fought for anti-busing for school integration in Boston, Massachusetts. Description about the anti-busing movement in Boston; Popularity of educationist John O'Bryant in Boston; Image of anti-busing candidates in Boston.

Provides information about two books based on Boston, Massachusetts. "Liberty's Chosen Home: The Politics of Violence in Boston," Alan Lupo; "The Boston Money Tree: How the Proper Men of Boston Made, Invested and Preserved Their Wealth From Colonial to the Space Age," by Russell B. Adams.

The article focuses on the murder of Carol Stuart in Boston, Massachusetts. The murdered is now attributed to her husband, Chuck Stuart. When Charles Stuart described a black man as the murderer, the white authorities in Boston sent a small army of occupation into the black neighborhoods. Police invaded the housing projects of Mission Hill, knocking down doors, bursting into apartments, slamming and insulting residents. Young black men were stopped, searched and detrousered on the street for no cause more reasonable than their skin color.

Bunker Hill, the Old North Church, and all the other proud relics of a time when a fierce love of freedom and democracy was flowering in New England take on an ironic symbolism these days as the poison of Nazism drifts through the crooked streets of Boston, Massachusetts like a fog from the bay. No one, however, should imagine that the defeatists in Boston became convinced of their error on December 7, 1942. On January 31 the Reverend Edward Lodge Curran of Brooklyn, spokesman for Father Coughlin in the East and friend of the Brooklyn Christian Front leader John F. Cassidy, came to Boston.

The North End--Boston, Massachusetts' Italian quarter--is a closed city within a city. Surrounding it like tile walls of a medieval town are the water-front on one side, and on the other an express elevated highway, a two-block-wide aerial ribbon of steel, concrete and asphalt. And as if these enclosing barriers were not enough, there exists beyond the "walls" a no-man's land, inhabited only by day, of commercial buildings, offices, wholesale meat and produce markets, factories, warehouses and wharves, which adds further protection against the encroachment of outsiders. But a true picture of the prevailing congestion cannot be drawn without noting the large number of dozen upon dozen-of North End buildings and areas used for purposes other than habitation: stores, factories, warehouses, churches, a few schools, many restaurants, and even a pre-Revolutionary burial ground.

The article presents various socio-political developments from the world. English politics has now entered on what is, perhaps, the most curious phase in its history. It appears to be all but certain that the liberals who abstained from voting; or broke away from the followers of William Ewart Gladstone last year are now prepared to return to their allegiance if the opportunity is afforded them. One of the most curious social phenomena of the year is the success which has attended the attempts to teach whist in classes, both in this city and in Boston, last winter, and during the past summer at some of the watering-places.

At the present moment, besides the memorial exhibition organized by the Copley Society, there are two other Whistler exhibitions open here in Boston, Massachusetts —an exhibition of reproductions at the Public Library, and an exhibition of etchings. Every one is talking and thinking of Whistler exhibitions. And the opening reception of the Copley Society's exhibition was, as a reception, a brilliant success. Everybody who is anybody in Boston, socially or intellectually, seems to have been there, mingled with artists, critics, and connoisseurs from many other cities.

Boston has just been released from the grip of an occupation that lasted almost a week, an occupation the like of which this old town had not previously seen. The article focuses on the twelfth annual convention of American legion. A substantial portion of the citizenry hopes that it will not see the like again. There are others who would not mind repeating the experience next year, with all its accompaniments of pomp and ceremony, noise and glitter, horseplay and drunkenness, childishness and arrogance, militarism and vulgarity.

The article presents information related to science and scientific research. The article presents an outline of the two lectures on electrical experiments prepared by the scientist Benjamin Franklin. The lectures were delivered at Boston, Massachusetts by one of Franklin's partners Ebenezer Kinnersley. There were twenty experiments in the first lecture, and twenty-three in the second. The prevailing theory of the nature of electricity occupied the greater part of the first demonstration of Franklin's experiments at Boston.

Presents letters to the editor on various political developments around the U.S. Suggestion of a mock trial of the Sacco-Varizetti case in Boston, Massachusetts; Views on the government policy with respect to sugar tariff; Information on a two day's conference on imperialism organized by Labor party members of the British House of Commons in London, England to be held on July 17 and 18, 1929.

In this article the author shares his experience when he was in the Psychopathic Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts for twenty-four hours. On Sunday, August 14, 1927 the author attempted to address a mass meeting in Boston Common on the Sacco-Vanzetti case. At the trial the author was found guilty of speaking without a permit and sentenced to pay a $20 fine. Sitting beside the chairman on the platform, the author was asked questions for some time about his economic and political views. The hospital officials all assured him that never had a patient gotten out so quickly, the rule being that no one could be released in less than ten days.

Presents a calendar of events in the Boston and New York City areas for 2006. Included are conference "Rethinking Marxism 2006" at the University of Massachusetts, dramatic readings from Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove, Haymarket forum with writer Jeff Chang, film screening of George McGovern biopic, and a concert by Pete Seeger.

The article presents information about records. In Beethoven's Missa Solemnis one hears the inner illumination and exaltation that are embodied in the works of his last years--carried to ever higher points of jubilant ecstasy in portions of the Gloria and Credo and even more affecting in the wonderful quiet passages of Sanctus, the Benedictus, the Agnus Dei. And the character of the work provides the basis for judgment of the performance. The even higher points of jubilant ecstasy, for one thing, are achieved in the form in sound which Toscanini's breath-taking tempos and soaring, radiant choral sonorities give to the "Gloria in Excelsis Deo" and "in gloria Dei patris" of the Gloria, but not in the form given to them by the ponderous, stodgy tempos and thick masses of choral sound of the Koussevitsky performance which Vector recorded at concerts in Boston, Massachusetts. On the other hand the orchestral prelude to the Benedictus, moving as slowly as it does in Toscanini's performance, has a meaning that it does not have moving at Koussevitzky's faster pace.