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...Cemetery claims on its website that it is “one of the most beautiful and historic landscapes in America.” A walk along silent Indian Ridge Path, surrounded by the dappled reds and yellows of its autumn trees and the stately mausoleums of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Henry Cabot Lodge, confirms their lofty statement. Sitting on 175 acres of rolling hills, the cemetery was founded in 1831 by wealthy Bostonians who sought a tranquil resting-place for the dead, and a vibrant park-ground for the, well, non-dead. Over the years, the cemetery has become...
...quintessential professor here is Professor Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles, University Professor of Ancient, Byzantine, and Modern Greek from 1860 to 1883, who lived by himself in Holworthy Hall, kept chickens in his room and wore a blue cloak and wild beard, that made, in the words of Professor Henry W. Longfellow, “Diogenes a possibility...
...Cambridge schools on the watch list this year are Amigos, Graham and Parks, Kennedy-Longfellow, King, King Open, Morse, Peabody, Tobin, and Cambridge Rindge and Latin. The Baldwin School was on the list last year but was removed because of its progress on closing its math subgroup gaps...
...Kennedy-Longfellow School was designated as needing “corrective action” because it failed to make progress in subgroup math, but posted strong gains otherwise. In 2005 it failed in all four indicators, and this year passed subgroup and overall English and overall math...
...walk down Brattle will lead you to the historic mansions of Cambridge, including the home of former Harvard professor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Take this walk when you need a reminder of why you’re working so hard in your classes—pure intellectual curiosity should motivate most of your hard work, but the possibility of one day living in a mansion like those on Brattle can be encouraging as well...