Mr. S. P. B. Mais
Relayed from America
(In co-operation with The National Broadcasting Company of America)
This evening Mr. Mais will broadcast from Boston, the capital of Massachusetts and the most historical city of North America. The district was mapped by Captain John Smith in 1614; the City itself dates from 1630, and its Old State House from 1748. Boston was prominent in the American revolution of the eighteenth century, and in the Civil War of 1854. It has a great tradition as a centre and symbol of culture. In Boston or around it Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne , Thoroau, Whittier, Long-fellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes lived almost as contemporaries, while the world-known Harvard University and its affiliated Radcliffe College (for women) are at Cambridge, just beyond the city's limits.