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Title: Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi ..
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nts, or so beau-tiful a home in which to shelter the fair heads, in-wardly crammed and running over with knowledge,and outwardly adorned, either in fact or in prospective,with the scholastic cap of learning. Since its openingin 1875, Wellesley has almost created a new era inwomans education, and its curriculum is the same asthose of the most advanced male colleges. The Col-lege Aid Society, which at an annual cost of from$6000 to $7000 helps ambitious girlhood, for whomstraitened means would otherwise render a universityeducation impossible, is an interesting feature of thecollege. What Wellesley has for twenty years been to Ameri-can girlhood. Harvard University has for 150 yearsbeen to American young manhood, and though its chiefdepartments are located at Cambridge, it may still befairly ranked with Bostonian institutions. The tiewhich connects the Cambridge University and thecapital of Massachusetts is closer than that existingbetween mere neighbors—it is a veritable bond of kin-
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BOSTON AND ITS ENVIRONS. 59 ship. It might he said tliat from the opening of theUniversity in l(jo8, Boston made Harvard and Har-vard Boston. Its illustrious founder, John Harvard,was a resident of Charlestown, now a part of Boston—and his monument, erected hy suhscriptions of Harvardgraduates, is one of the princi;>al sights of that dis-trict, where it stands near the Old State Prison. To itsclassic groves Boston has sent, and from them receivedagain, the noblest of her sons; and three of her de-partments, the Bussey Institution of Agriculture, theMedical School and the Dental School, are situatedwithin the limits of Boston proper. Harvard Uni-versity at present owns property valued at $6,000,000,and accommodates nearly 2000 puj)ils. In additionto the departments already mentioned and which arelocated in Boston, the principal sections are HarvardCollege, the Jefferson Laboratory, the LawrenceScientific School, the new Law School, the DivinitySchool, the Harvard Library, Botanica

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