Touring Cambridge, the country's original college town

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Touring CambridgeLeavitt & PeirceThe Charles RiverBiking through Harvard SquareHarvard SquareJohn Harvard statueMt. Auburn Street as it leads to the steeple of Lowell HouseMemorial HallDrew Gilpin Faust, Harvard's current presidentHarvard Museum of Natural HistoryA Van Gogh self-portrait inside Harvard Art Museum's Sackler buildingA George Washington painting by Gilbert StuartWashington TowerMr. Bartley's Gourmet BurgersBikers on MIT's campusKillian CourtFrank Gehry's Stata CenterMIT MuseumA class at MIT

<b>11. H.W. Longfellow continues to sleep here.</b><br>
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So does Mary Baker Eddy. The poet and the founder of the Christian Science movement occupy just two of the many plots in the immaculately landscaped hills of Mount Auburn Cemetery. If you catch a clear day and it's not winter, head straight for Mount Auburn and climb the 125-foot Washington Tower. From up there you can look down on all of Cambridge, which is especially fun if you went to a state school.

Washington Tower

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11. H.W. Longfellow continues to sleep here.

So does Mary Baker Eddy. The poet and the founder of the Christian Science movement occupy just two of the many plots in the immaculately landscaped hills of Mount Auburn Cemetery. If you catch a clear day and it's not winter, head straight for Mount Auburn and climb the 125-foot Washington Tower. From up there you can look down on all of Cambridge, which is especially fun if you went to a state school.

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Touring Cambridge, the country's original college town

Washington Tower