The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1903-05-30
A NEW HARVARD. !"
Plans r., Making the Univer'
sily- More Beautiful.
EXTENSIVE CHANGES PROPOSED

EXTENSIVE CHANGES PROPOSED.
Ramshac<le Tenement District Of
Cambridge to De Handsomely
Ne Laid Out and Stately DOrmi-
tories Erected Along Magnificent
Boulevard.
II plans now fully decided upoo
realized, Harvard university within
the next few years will expand its pre-
cincts into one OF the richest and most
beautiful panoramas imaginable, says
Q special dispatch from Cambridge to
the New York World. For some time
II has been known in Cambridge that
big real estate syndicate has been
buying property between Mount Au-
burn street and the Charles river-Op-
tions are held on every piece OF land
obtainable. Although no one knows
exactly who the holders Of these Op-
tions are, 1t is known that the persons
engaged in the scheme are old Har-
ward graduates living In Cambridge
and Boston, and that they plan to
make Harvard college magnificent"
with a second campus facing a wide
spreading bay and stately dOrmitories
adorning 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 magnifi-
cent style; to connect these buildings
with the yard proper by means Of a
broad new park boulevard, such as
President Eliot Of Harvard and Mayor
McNamee Of Cambridge have adv0-
Gated SO long. and by means Of this
boulevard to connect Harvard with its
valuable property in Brookline, where
the new $4,OOO,OO0 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 the Charles, chang
ing the present squalid river basin into
q beautiful lake. When this dam is
built the part OF Cambridge now lying
between Mount Auburn street and the
river will 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 tn
beautiful curves along the shore, beau
tiful buildings will face the water and
the aristocratic people of Cambridge
will forsake their present dwellings to
occupy new places on Boston's beauti-
full, broad bay.
Already the tendency is setting in
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 consid-
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 dorlni-
tories are now backing the movement
to erect a new Harvard" near the
river bank.
The changing of the Mount Auburn
section into part Of Harvard, hing
ing, as 1t does, on the laying Of new
parkway from Massachusetts avenue
to the Charles. would have a wonderful
transforming effect In Cambridge.
President Eliot has long been desirous
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. With
Il broad boulevard running from Quin-
cy square, Off Massachusetts avenue.
to the Charles and there connecting
with the Cambridge park system Har-
ward would have almost immediate
connection with its proposed medical
school across the river as well as with
IT, 3 Medical school, which has re-
Gently been shifted from Shawmut
avenue to adjoin the Crimson school In
LOngwoOd avenue.
From Harvard. In Cambridge. to this
other part Of the university would
mean a drive about beautiful b0uie-
ward, following the river basin as far
m the Longwood brtlge and then, just
across the river, traversing Common
wealth avenue into the center Of
BroOkline, the richest and most beauti.
ful suburban city In the United States.
Cambridge, In other words, would be
connected with Brookline,
and as the two cities are each beautiful
and aristOcratic the change II one
greatly desired. The 'snew part, Of
Harvard would come directly along the
line Of this boulevard Or at least along
that part OF It leading from Massachu-
setts avenue to the Charles.
NEED or ZIONlSM.