FAREWELL, CAMBRIDGE!

"The Cambridge city planning board has recommended that Cambridge should be consolidated with Somerville, Medford, Arlington, Belmont and Watertown, in a great Middlesex city."

Shades of Emerson and Longfellow! Will the Juggernaut of modern progress have no mercy? Is Cantabrigian conservatism to die without a gasp? Consider the awful consequences of such a vulgar union!

Students will soon be actually playing tennis on Sunday; clanging trolley-cars will destroy forever the sacred quiet of Brattle street itself. It may even happen that those gentle hurricanes of dust in Harvard square will yield to the unctuous persuasion of a modern water-wagon, and the secluded dusk of our streets will be lightened by the brazen rays of a real are-light.

Citizens of Cambridge, rise in wrath! It can never be!