Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...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 to stirring addresses in Greek and Latin; and the venerable College would flourish, unrestrained by other rule than that of the body which first founded it, the "General Court of Massachusetts...