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versity, which is devoted to scientific research, with its 

 wonderfully equipped chemical laboratory. 

 . Any one who wants a bird's-eye view of Worcester 

 and its environments, can easily liave it by strolling 

 out Highland street to Newton Hill. It is only about 

 a mile from Lincoln Park, but it is six hundred and 

 seventy feet above the sea level, and from it " the 

 whole world, and the glory thereof,'' seems spread out 

 at one's feet. 



On Salisbury street, one mile from the square, 

 stands the house in which George Bancroft, the histo- 

 rian, dear to American hearts, was born. 



A mile and a half from the square, on Salisbury 

 Pond, are located the famous Wire Works of Wash- 

 burn and Moen. 



There are many buildings to interest the visitor in 

 Worcester. The State Lunatic Asylum, with its one 

 ^thousand patients; the free Public Library on Elm 

 street, containing eighty thousand volumes; the High 

 School on Walnut street; the Museum of the National 

 Historical Society, on Foster street ; All Saint's 

 Church; the Polytechnic Institute; the College of 

 the Holy Cross, six hundred and ninty feet above the 

 sea, and many another place of interest, calling oti the 

 passers-by to look, and learn of the world's advance- 

 ment. 



Standing on one of the heights overlooking the 

 little river, the surrounding hills, the busy city, throb- 

 bing with its many manufactories, it seemed to me I 

 had before my eyes an object lesson of the wonderful 

 resources, the vim, the power of making ^'all things 

 work together for good," which I take to be the vital 

 characteristic of American manhood. 



