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for it. A word must be said of the Episcopal 

 Theological School, based upon ideas as sound and 

 broad as Christianity ; and of the New-Church 

 Theological School, more recently founded. We 

 must hail such indications of the tendency toward 

 making our Cambridge the centre for the untram 

 melled study of the most vital problems that can 

 occupy the human mind. 



But the day we are celebrating is a civic, not 

 a university occasion, and I must dwell no longer 

 upon academic themes. We are signalizing the 

 anniversary . of the change which we once made 

 from government by town meeting to city govern 

 ment. Have we a good reason for celebrating that 

 change? Has our career as a civic community 

 been worthy of approval ? In answering this ques 

 tion, I shall not undertake to sum up the story of 

 our public schools and library ; our hospital and 

 charity organizations ; the excellent and harmonious 

 work of our churches, Protestant and Catholic ; our 

 Prospect Union, warmly to be commended ; our ar 

 rangements for water supply and sewage ; and our 

 admirable park system (in which we may express 

 a hope that Elmwood will be included). This 

 interesting and suggestive story may be read in 

 the semi-centennial volume, &quot; The Cambridge of 

 Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Six,&quot; just issued 



