The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-07-09
A NEW HARVARD.
Plans For Making the Univer-
sity More Beautiful.
EXTENSIVE CHANGES PROPOSED.

RnmshaclxIe Tenement District o.
Cambridge TO BE Handsomely
Transformed--A second Campus 70
BE Laid ont ana stately pormi-
tories Erected Along a magnificent
boulevard.
II plans now fully decided upon are
realized, Harvard university within
tie next few years VIII expand its pre-
cincts into one Of the richest and.most
beautiful panoramas imaginable, says
a special dispatch from Cambridge to
the New York World. For some time
It has been known in Cambridge that
n biz real estate syndicate has been
buying property between Mount Au-
burn street and the Charles river-op-
lions are held on every piece OF and
obtainable. Although no one knows
exactly who the holders Of these op-
tons are, It is known that the persons
enga ged in the scheme are old Har-
yard graduates living in Cambridge
and Boston, and that they plan to
make Harvard a college magnificent"
with a second campus facing wide
spreading bay and stately dormitories
adjoining a magnificent boulevard.
The scheme is to change the whole
section Of Cambridge between the
streets mentioned into part Of the col
lege grounds; to erect there dormi-
tories Of the most stately and magnif-
cent style; to connect these buildings
with the yard proper by means Of
broad new park boulevard, such as
President Eliot Of Harvard and Mayor
AIcNamee OF Cambridge have adyo
Gated 50 long, and BY means Of this
boulevard to connect Harvard with its
valuable property in Brookline, where
the new S4,000.000 medical school IS
to be erected soon. This scheme,
backed as 1t is by some Of the leading
business men in Cambridge and Bos-
ton, is said to be almost certain Of
execution.
OF course, The whole scheme hinges
on the new dam which is TO be erect
ed at the mouth Of tile Charles, chang
ing the present squalid river basin into
a beautiful lake. When this dam Is
built, the part of Cambridge now lying
between Mount Auburn street and the
river win be changed from a disrepu-
table, wretched tenement district to
the finest part Of the whole city.
Trees will adorn the banks, the Cam
bridge Park driveway will sweep In
beautiful curves along the shore, beau
tiful buildings Will face the water and
the aristoeratic people Of Cambridge
will forsake their present dwellings to
occupy new places on Boston's beautl-
full, broad bay.
Already the tendency is setting III
that direction This has been partic-
ularly noticeable the last few years,
when such buildings as claverly hall,
Randolph hall and Westmorly court,
all big private dormitories at Harvard,
where the very wealthiest students
/ live, have been built In Mount Auburn
| street in what formerly was eonsid-
cred the least desirable part Of the
whole city Of Cambridge. In these
dormitories the young millionaires
from New York. Boston, Philadelphia,
Chicago and all the big cities have
congregated The explanation is that
the men interested in these dormi-
tories are now backing the movement
to erect a new Harvard" near the
L river bank
| The changing Of the Mount Auburn
section into a part Of Harvard, hing
| ing, as It does, on the laying of a new
parkway from Massachusetts avenue
to the Charles, would have a wonderful
/ transforming effect in Cambridge
/ President Eliot has long been DESTROYS
Of putting the boulevard scheme
through and has even spoken before
the legislature to that end. His pur
pose in so doing is now evident. Will
i broad boulevard running from Quin
! ey square, OFF Massachusetts avenue
! to the Charles and there connecting
J with the Cambridge park system Har
yard would have almost immediate
connection with its proposed mediea
school across the river as well as Will
j Tufts Medical school which has re
Gently been shifted from shawmu
avenue to adjoin the Crimson school IL
! Longwood avenue.
From Harvard, In Cambridge. to this
other part Of the university would
+ mean a drive about a beautiful boule
| Ward following the river basin as fnl
as tie Longwood bridge and then, jus
! across the river, traversing Common
! wealth avenue into the center Of
Brookline the richest and most beautl
full suburban city III the United States
Cambridge, in other words, would b,
Immediately connected with Brookiine
and as the two cities are each beautiful
and aristocratic the change Is ont
greatly desired The new part o
? Harvard would come directly along thu
line Of this boulevard or at least along
that part Of It leading from Massachu
setts avenue to the Charles.
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