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About Ispwich the marshes furnish views beautiful in their breadth and simplicity; nearer Cambridge, as in Waverly, Woburn, the Middlesex Fells, and in the valley of the Mystic there are many scenes of great attractiveness. The landscape views of this region are mostly small in effect. It is only along the coast, on the marshes and on the hills, as in the Blue Hills, that we find breadth and largeness of view...
...think of all these comrades with equal tenderness and respect, and as one after another, worn out with work or by the hard blows of life, drops, we close up the ranks, and drawing nearer to each other, we move on. It is the record of deep mutual trust and friendship, and such a boon we would pass...
...Yale game or are in Cambridge for Class Day often cannot wait till Commencement, and many do not think it worth while to go from a distance for only a day or two, who would be glad to go if the several events could be brought nearer together...
...usual Vesper Service will be held this afternoon in Appleton Chapen at 5 o'clock. The musical programme will be "I Heard A Sound of Voices," Storer; "Come Unto Me," Cocnen; Solo by P. L. Fish '01; "Nearer my God to Thee," Adams...
...bear in mind about Crete and Knossos is primarily a geographical one, since the leadership in the Amorgan era and the great maritime empire in the Mycenaean Age were due entirely to the advantageous position of Crete. Thus when commerce and enterprise were fairly under way, Crete found itself nearer to Cyprus and Troy and also nearer to the Delta of the Nile than any other Greek or Aegean land. Crete, then, could be taken as a middle point between Europe, Africa and Asia, and it was made possible for the diffusion of Egyptian germs to be transmitted through Crete...