The Museum of Science in Boston awarded him a special gold medal for "leading children down the path to the wide wonderful world of the outdoors".
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For his efforts, an Honorary Literary Degree was bestowed upon Burgess in 1938 by Northeastern University.
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Graduating from Sandwich High School in 1891, Burgess briefly attended a business college in Boston from 1892 to 1893, living in Somerville, Massachusetts, at that time.
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He moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he took a job as an editorial assistant at the Phelps Publishing Company.
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John Crowley's 1980 novel Little, Big includes allusions to locations and characters in Burgess' stories.
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