BOSTON 



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BOSTON 



OUTLINE AND QUESTIONS ON BOSTON 



Outline 



I. Location and Size 



( 1 ) Latitude comparative and . actual 



(2) Location 



(3) Area 



(4) Population 



II. Description 



(1) Its site 



(2) The three hills 



(3) Business district 



(4) Residence districts 



(5) Historic buildings 



(a) Faneuil Hall 



(b) Old South Meeting-House 



(c) Old North Church 



(d) King's Chapel 



(6) Modern buildings 



(a) Public Library 



(b) Symphony Hall 



(c) Museum of Fine Arts 



(d) State House 



(e) Customhouse 



(f) Government building 



(g) Trinity Church 



(7) Parks and boulevards 

 (a) The Common 



. (b) The outer and inner systems 

 (c) Monuments 



(8) Burying grounds 



(9) Institutions 



III. Industrial Life 



(1) Manufactures 



(a) Food products 



(b) Leather goods 



(c) Fabrics 



(d) Iron and steel products 



(2) Commerce 



(a) Bulk 



(b) Chief imports and exports 



( 3 ) Transportation 



IV. Population 



(1) Proportion of native-born to foreign- 

 ers 



(2) Nationalities of foreign-born 



(3) Boston's place in literature and art 



V. Government 



(1) Commission features 



(2) Officials 



(3) Finance commission 



VI. History 



(1) Settlement 



(2) Part in Revolution 



( 3 ) Later events 



(4) Importance in history of the country 



Questions 



What was Boston originally called, and why? What street in the city recalls 

 the old name? 



What did Holmes mean when he spoke of the city as having opened "turn- 

 pikes that lead straight to free thought and free speech and free deeds"? 



Why has Boston no great "skyscrapers"? 



If an early settler could return now, what would he find different about the 

 site of the city? 



What drawbacks have the streets in the "downtown" section? How do you 

 account for this? 



Under what circumstances was the announcement of an epoch-making event 

 taken for part of a play? 



What building is known as the "Sanctuary of Freedom," and why? 



How would it affect the literature of the United States if Boston and its literary 

 history were blotted out? 



What building is intimately associated with one of the best-known of American 

 poems? 



How did the opening-up the West affect the industrial life of Boston? 



What great religious organization has its home here? 



