History of the Cambridge Academy

A decorative woodcut initial 'Q' begins the text.

Because it has existed through grateful centuries, and in all human memory, and in the present, as if by a return from exile, it has revived. Having perceived this, and observing it as if in a metamorphosis that is permitted to be noticed in human affairs, I have seen the same face, the same habit, the same mode of speaking, and the same form of acting which was once uncultivated and unknown in Cambridge, and was almost unheard of. It has survived through this long and nearly brief passage of centuries and times, and it is the same ancient and praiseworthy commemoration. And it is there with witnesses, and in memory, and in it, and in vindicating injury, and in it, and memory, and in it, it conciliates. For the farmer, and in it, and the head of the family, who...