Charles River
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The Charles River, sometimes called the River Charles or simply the Charles, is an 80-mile-long (129 km) river in eastern Massachusetts. It flows northeast from Hopkinton to Boston along a highly meandering route, that doubles back on itself several times and travels through 23 cities and towns before reaching the Atlantic Ocean. The indigenous Massachusett named it Quinobequin, meaning "meandering" or "meandering still water".
Longfellow Bridge (center) connecting Boston and Cambridge crossing a frozen Charles River
View of the bridge over Charles River, an illustration now housed in the New York Public Library
View of the Charles River and Memorial Drive in Cambridge (foreground), and the Back Bay skyline of Boston at night
A sunny day on the Charles River Esplanade
Boston University
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Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodists with its original campus in Newbury, Vermont, before being chartered in Boston in 1869. It is a member of the Association of American Universities and the Boston Consortium for Higher Education.
688 Boylston Street, the early home of the College of Liberal Arts, the precursor to the College of Arts & Sciences
Helen Magill White, the first woman to receive a PhD from an American university
Marsh Plaza and its surrounding buildings were one of the first completed parts of the Charles River Campus