Groups often join one another in on-campus concerts, such as the Georgetown Chimes ' Cherry Tree Massacre, a 3-weekend a cappella festival held each February since 1975, where over a hundred collegiate groups have appeared, as well as International Quartet Champions The Boston Common and the contemporary commercial a cappella group Rockapella.

Public parkland includes the esplanade along the Charles River, which mirrors its Boston counterpart, Cambridge Common, a busy and historic public park immediately adjacent to the Harvard campus, and the Alewife Brook Reservation and Fresh Pond in the western part of the city.

He referred to followers of the movement as " Frog-Pondians " after the pond on Boston Common.

* She appeared as Anthony Clark's mother on the sitcom Boston Common.

* The Liberty Tree, an elm on Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts, was a rallying point for the growing resistance to the rule of England over the American colonies.

* The Great Elm on Boston Common, supposed to have been in existence before the settlement of Boston, at the time of its destruction by the storm of the 15th of February 1876 measured.

Thompson subsequently practiced law in Boston and was a member of the Boston Common Council from 1876 to 1878.

Carney's face is shown on the monument to Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th on the Boston Common designed by Augustus Saint Gaudens.

* The Liberty Tree, an elm on Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts, was a rallying point for the growing resistance to the rule of England over the American colonies.

Common usage, as well as signs until 1997, continues Route 128 east along the first 7 miles ( 11 km ) of Interstate 93 to the Braintree Split in Braintree, where I-93 turns north with Route 3 toward downtown Boston.

Massacre memorial on the Boston Common

In 1888, a monument was erected on the Boston Common to the men killed in the massacre, and the five victims, along with Christopher Seider, were reinterred in a prominent grave in the Granary Burying Ground.

Initially the location for common grazing of livestock, community gatherings and military drills, the Town Common is the only remaining original common on the east coast outside of Boston.

* In a 1996 episode of the NBC-TV series Boston Common, actor Anthony Clark pantomimes and dances a routine to Martin's 1960 song, " Ain't That A Kick In The Head?

* 1888, a monument honoring Attucks and the other victims of the Boston Massacre was erected on Boston Common.

Parkways can be the approach to large urban parks, such as the Mystic Valley Parkway to Boston Common in Boston.

In 1848, while walking through Boston Common, Stone stopped to admire a statue known as The Greek Slave and broke into tears, seeing in the slave girl's chains, the symbol of man's oppression.

Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story, " Never Bet the Devil Your Head ", in which he embedded elements of deep dislike for transcendentalism, calling its followers " Frogpondians " after the pond on Boston Common.

This situation was exacerbated further by the success of The Single Guy ( which many attributed to piggybacking off of Friends ), as well as another freshman sitcom, Boston Common, which debuted in March 1996 against the second half of Murder, She Wrote.

Other rivers and streams having their headwaters in the Boston Mountains include the Illinois River, the Mulberry River, Lee Creek, Frog Bayou, Big Piney Creek, Illinois Bayou, and the Little Red River.

File: Frog Pond at Boston Common. jpg | The Frog Pond

Gleason Archer, Sr. ( 1880 – 1966 ), the founder and first president of Suffolk University in Boston, was born in Great Pond.

Maskall, Bomba, Corozalito, Santana, Lucky Strike, Rockstone Pond, Boston, Crooked Tree, Biscayne, May Pen, Gardenia, Grace Bank, Sand Hill, Lord's Bank, Ladyville, Burrel Boom, Buttercup, Scotland Halfmoon, Flowers Bank, Bermudian Landing, Isabella Bank, Double Head Cabbage, Willows Bank, Saint Paul's Bank, Big Falls, Rancho Dolores, Hattieville, Freetown Sibun, Gracie Rock, La Democracia, and Gales Point are all mainland villages in the Belize District.

On January 9, 2004, Fairchild Semiconductor CEO Kirk Pond was appointed as a Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, elected by member banks to serve a three year term.

The City of Boston bought Amory's water rights to Fort Meadow Pond in 1846.

In the next few years, William Curtis, John May and others set up farms nearby along Stony Brook, which flowed from south to north from Turtle Pond ( in Hyde Park ) to an outlet in the Charles River marshes in the current filled-in Fens area of Boston.

; Jamaica Pond: has of surface area and is the largest and deepest body of fresh water in Boston

In 1775 the British first ventured toward Long Island at Fort Pond Bay at Montauk during the Siege of Boston.

Founded in 1888 as Miss Pierce ’ s School, today, the diverse student body of over 560 students comes from the Greater Boston to a 26-acre campus in Brookline, Massachusetts near Jamaica Pond.

Cemetery and apartment houses along Commonwealth Avenue, Boston | Commonwealth Avenue, Brighton, near Chandler's Pond

A railroad was built by Blanchard and Twitchell Company in 1894 from the Boston and Maine Railroad in Berlin, New Hampshire, through the aboriginal forests to Success Pond in the northeast corner of the township.

Samuel Pond " Sad Sam " Jones ( July 26, 1892 – July 6, 1966 ) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played in the American League with the Cleveland Indians ( 1914 – 15 ), Boston Red Sox ( 1916 – 21 ), New York Yankees ( 1922 – 26 ), St. Louis Browns ( 1927 ), Washington Senators ( 1928 – 31 ) and Chicago White Sox ( 1932 – 35 ).

On Sept. 5, 1941, Col. John Moore, commanding officer of the U. S. Army Air Corps at Grenier Field, wrote a letter proposing the government create a bombing range in New Boston near Joe English Pond.

Features of the park include Fells Reservoir ( water supply for the town of Winchester ) and Spot Pond ( used as a back-up reservoir by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority ), two observation towers featuring scenic views of Boston and the surrounding area, and many vernal pools.

Jamaica Pond is a kettle pond, part of the Emerald Necklace of parks in Boston designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.

* 1941, The China of Chiang K ' ai-shek: A Political Study, Boston: World Peace Foundation, ISBN 0-8371-6779-5

* Matz received the 2011 Award for the Advancement of Free Software from the Free Software Foundation ( FSF ) at the 2012 LibrePlanet conference at the University of Massachusetts Boston in Boston.

In 1939, with the help of his agent, Audrey Wood, he was awarded a $ 1, 000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in recognition of his play Battle of Angels which was produced in Boston in 1940, but poorly received.

New Boston was also home to the Gravity Research Foundation from the late 1940s through the mid-1960s.

* Article about Gravity Research Foundation on the New Boston town Website

The show is produced by the WGBH Educational Foundation, the parent company of WGBH-TV in Boston.

Boston College is categorized as a research university with high research activity by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

The regional director of the U. S. based Near East Foundation, who had field experience in the Sudan, wrote an article in the Boston Globe with the same estimate and said " without the lifesaving medicine destroyed facilities produced ... tens of thousands of people-many of them children-have suffered and died from malaria, tuberculosis and other treatable diseases ... produced 90 percent of Sudan's major pharmaceutical products ... Sanctions against Sudan made it impossible to import adequate amounts of medicines required to cover the serious gaps left by the plant's destruction ...

Smith regularly contributes to many non profit organizations including: MusiCares, Surfer's Healing, an organization which provides aid to children facing Autism, Right Turn in Boston, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Children's Hospitals across the United States and Camp Korey, which is one of Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall summer camps for children with serious illness.

Among Buckley's civilian awards are the Freedom Foundation Award for Lexington Green Diorama, Collegium and Academy of Distinguished Alumni Boston University.

The WGBH Educational Foundation, the parent organization, also owns and operates WGBX-TV ( channel 44 ) and the public radio stations WGBH ( FM ) and WCRB in the Boston area, and WCAI ( and satellites WZAI and WNAN ) in Cape Cod.

WGBH Educational Foundation received its first broadcasting license ( for radio ) in 1951 under the auspices of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, a consortium of local universities and cultural institutions, whose collaboration stems from an 1836 bequest by textile manufacturer John Lowell, Jr. calling for free public lectures for the citizens of Boston.

In 1957, Theodore T. Puck obtained a female Chinese hamster from Dr. George Yerganian's laboratory at the Boston Cancer Research Foundation and used it to derive the original Chinese hamster ovary ( CHO ) cell line.

* The Economic Foundation of Freedom, The American Prospect: Insights into Our Next 100 Years, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston: 1977.

On December 7, 2007, the NHLPA and the David Suzuki Foundation decided to create a pact, led by Boston Bruins defenceman Andrew Ference, which had over 500 NHL players signed up to donate $ 290 annually to purchase carbon credits in order to offset their regular season travel.

Upon earning a Ford Foundation Grant in 1972, Cisneros and his young family moved to Boston, where he earned his second Master ’ s degree at Harvard.

* Friedman, Donna Haig, et al., " Preventing Homelessness and Promoting Housing Stability: A Comparative Analysis ", The Boston Foundation and UMASS / Boston Center for Social Policy, June 2007.

) With the assistance of a band of Boston musicians and former Boston Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein, Gammons plays a Fender Stratocaster and sings at the annual Hot Stove, Cool Music concert event to benefit Theo and Paul Epstein's Foundation To Be Named Later, a charity that raises funds and awareness for non-profit agencies serving disadvantaged youth in the Greater Boston area.

The Rogers Center for the Arts, named in recognition of the early leadership pledge made by the Rogers Family Foundation, is a regional performing and visual arts center that serves the Merrimack College community, the Merrimack Valley region as well as the entire community north of Boston.

In January 1985, the grand jury in Boston, Massachusetts, subpoenaed documents from the National Democratic Policy Committee ( NDPC ), and three other LaRouche organizations: Caucus Distributors Inc., Fusion Energy Foundation, and Campaigner Publications Inc.