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Title: The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Gilman, Arthur, 1837- (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Cambridge, Mass. (from old catalog) Cambridge, Mass. -- History. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Cambridge, Riverside press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ve ideals, and has thus been, in very deed, laying aside everyweight. And as I believe it is true that, in our university,civics and economics are taught as they are nowhere else taughtin America, so I believe that the young men let out from its lec-ture-rooms have only to repair to our city hall, and to walkthrough, all our borders, to find practical illustrations of goodcivics and economics which cannot be paralleled in the NewWorld. 10. Thus has it come to pass that, two hundred and sixty-fiveyears from the founding of Cambridge, and fifty years from theorganization of its present form of government, the most glori-ous decade of its entire history is also rounding out. For thesole purpose of great history, of high intellectual privilege, andof the blessings of poetry and other supreme manifestations ofgenius, is to produce fruit. Noblesse oblige. And all thatThomas Shepard and the bringing hither of the college and theglorious storied days of the municipality, all that the Washing-
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the secret: 99 ton Elm and Craigie House and Elmwood and our cis-AtlanticWestminster at Mount Auburn might presage, have begun tofulfill themselves in that high place, as regards civic and ethicalvalues, out into which Cambridge has been girding her loinsto march, and unto the realization of which her plainest andhumblest people, and her most intelligent and highly endowed,are alike consecrated. Thus, moreover, was it, that when, fouror five years ago, there broke into Cambridge speech — so sud-denly, with such energy, and with such large significance, thatthese can hardly yet be realized — the phrase, The CambridgeIdea, that spiritual ideal, that conception of a city of God onearth, that indefinable aspiration through which alone eitherindividuals or communities may come to their highest, found alanguage and a watchword which held within itself the secret ofour citys destiny. — Should I be quite true to my profession, or to a habitwhich I have had in Cambridge during the best y

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