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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, "The Cambridge of 

 Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Six," just issued 



