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With Lincoln in Westminster Square

Honors history and classical studies student Joshua Windsor is spending the 2012-2013 year studying abroad as a Libby Finch scholar at Cambridge University, in Cambridge, England.

Lent term, the second term of three, flew by at a head-spinning pace. In frost and damp it began, and just a few days later – or so it now seems – the crocuses were in bloom and the Easter lilies starting up from the soil, roused by Spring’s ‘clarion o’er the dreaming earth’. These past few days have been especially glorious, as the sun finally warms to its work and the earth seems alive and relieved. Now I can comprehend that exclamation of Robert Browning’s – ‘O, to be in England/now that spring is here!’ Now, too, I can foresee what torture awaits; for the student whose busiest time of the year is the spring, the pleasantness of it all can seem almost cruel, as if Mother Nature were mocking the breathless rush from deadline to deadline.

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