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...Patriotism. These figures, which will be about four feet ten inches in height, are to occupy the greater portion of the spaces above the ventilators, in the two parts of the window under the trefoil; around them, in a style corresponding with the subject, will run a decorative border, which, in the Sidney window, will properly be Elizabethan, and in the Epaminondas window, Grecian, and, above, there is to be a belt with the names of the subjects. The ventilators underneath are to be occupied by representations of episodes appropriate to the figures, together with suitable inscriptions...
...here is our plan. Let two such discordant elements as Old Cambridge and the new and very manufactured Port be divorced. Prospect Street could be made the border-land of the finite and human, while Cambridge, Old Cambridge, would know no other law than the philosophy of the Unconditioned, transcending all the petty efforts of a Port government. The students and professors would be the voters of the town; and every ambitious Sophomore might air his rhetoric at the caucus, and possibly taste the sweets of office. The voters would parade the town in caps and gowns, and listen...
...madness being on the border...
...madness I am on the border...