Word: capes
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Three hundred years ago the Pilgrim colonists first grounded their shallop upon the shores of Cape Cod, and established a new race and traditions which were destined to spread across continents and throughout nations. Three hundred years is but a short span of the world's life, yet human memory is sometimes shorter. How fitting is it, then, that on this day we should turn for a time from out shuttles, and books, and plowshares, to remember and do homage to the courage of the Pilgrims and to the ideals which led them forward...
Today the Geological Club of the University will take its annual spring field trip, the goal of which is Cape Ann. The party, composed of the club and all members of the University who are interested, beside a number of Graduate School members of the Geological Faculty, will leave the North Station at 8.17, daylight-saving time, on the Rockport train, and on the return will arrive in Boston at 6.23. At the Cape they will see the granite quarries, collect minerals, and study the raised beaches and other geological phenomena near Gloucester...
Griswold and Daugherty will assist in assembling the machine and testing it today and tomorrow. The first leg of their journey Sunday will be south along the Delaware to Cape May, where they will arrive at noon. In the afternoon they will fly to Rockaway, L. I., and spend the night there. Monday they will stop at New London, Narragansett Pier, and Chatham on Cape Cod, arriving at Marblehead in the late afternoon...
...General Wood was born in New Hampshire in 1860. When he was three months old his family moved to Massachusetts, where his boyhood was spent, principally on Cape Cod. As a youth he was thrown on his own resources, attended the Harvard Medical School, graduated therefrom in 1884, and afterwards served in the Boston City Hospital as house officer. One of his chiefs there has told me that General Wood was one of the most efficient surgical internes with whom he ever came in contact. Becoming restless at the inactivity in Boston of the position of a young doctor struggling...
Since February 15 Mr. Baker has been relieved of his active duties at Harvard, and during the coming months he expects to be in England and Holland securing material. It is the intention of Professor Baker to give full recognition to Cape Cod's part in the history of the voyage of the Pilgrims and to the experiences of the voyagers in their explorations about the bay before settling at Plymouth...