Tour of Boston

My dad and I traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2011 because his sister died unexpectedly. I lived in Portland, Oregon, and he lived in NW Indiana, an hour from Chicago.

Victorian houses in Boston

Massachusetts, Part 11

Today my dad and I took a bus tour of Boston and Cambridge (especially Boston). The tour guides/bus drivers were all quite amusing and informative. Here are my notes from the tour:

1636 = founding of Harvard. Harvard’s premier program is in economics. It’s the biggest, and Nobel Prize winners are from it. [So is my Aunt Barbara.]

A lovely building on the campus of Harvard University

MIT started in Boston in 1861 and eventually moved to Cambridge. MIT grads have won over seventy Nobel prizes.

Boston has over sixty colleges and universities. Boston University (BU) is the largest at 30,000 students. [That’s only a little larger than PSU, the largest university in Oregon, at 28,000 students.]

Radcliffe College, an all-female college founded in 1879, merged with Harvard in 1977, after Harvard finally started admitting female students. (This wasn’t part of the tour, just like nuns weren’t part of my official tour in Tibet.)

Boston Public Library: “See the names carved on the wall? Those are people who have never returned their library books.”