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 “offices” altered over for the use of the custodian. Close by stands the conventional flagstaff to denote government property. How much longer this veteran of that strange mushroom village withstood the hand of time is perhaps bootless to inquire. At all events, we may safely say that no one of that equally sudden growth, the Naval Radio Barracks, matched it in longevity. For the Common, like the College, after serving the needs of the navy as completely as it did those of the army, has returned once more to its intended uses; and in the course of a generation or two the memory of its recent transformation will doubtless become as hazy as that of its occupation for a barrack-square in 1775.