Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-04-29

hospita, the Samaritan hospital, the Free hospital for Women, and, prob- ably. the Brigham hospital. for which a fund of several million dollars was raised.
 This university of the Fenway i'll it's completeness will represent the joint efforts of the community which has tf0usht together the finest park sys= fem in the United States and of q number of great giters who have made it possible to utilize a portion ei one of the parilways for educational purposes The Harvard Medical | school, whose marble buildings upon which work was begun in September 1@13, are soon to be occupied by a throng of graduate and post graduate students, is largely the product of the gifts of millionaire New Workers and example, gave the three buildings at the back of the group Mrs. Collis P. Huntington and David Sears provided tie funds for the buildings ill the foreground. while for general equip i rlent a million dollars mere We're re- efived from JO!n D. Rockefeller. near 1 ly $4e0,o0o from Henry l.. Pierce of [ Boston, and about half a million from 1 ether sources, The total endowment Of the school when it first occupies it's new quarters will be more than five million dollars.
 Other institutions of the Fcnway al so represent the generosity of Ameri: can philanthropists. The school of the Museum of Fine Arts, some Of the 1 classes of which are now conducted in the Fanway Studio building is heavily endowed Simmons college exists n5ainle through the beneticence of the late John Simmons of Boston. who left somewhat mere than a million dollars ton In such branches of art science tand industry as will enable women to earn an Independent livelihood.
 One of the earliest of the Fenway group to get into active operation was the New England Conservatory of Music which in 1902 moved into it's handsome new building on Huntington avenue, about block from the Fen way. Although the millionaires of this country are only beginning to consid CT the needs Of musical institutions, which are in reality more dependent upon endowment than almost any oth- er class of educational institutions. va riOus benefactors have already done enough fer this conservatory to make it beyond peradventure the best equip ped musical school in the world. It's board of trustees includes, of course, number of Boston's eminent citizens who have given generously from their resources. Perhaps the largest single giver is Eben b. Jordan, the Boston merchant, whose munificence made possible Jordan hall, the best equip ped concert auditorium ill America Because of the financial support that has been given and that can still be counted upon, a marked character istic of all the schools composing the FenWay group is the attention that has been given to adequate education al equipment and physical comfort '.he pathological and bacteriological laboratories of the Harvard Medical school soon to be opened represent ta2 most advanced type of medical school workroom. Similarly in such building as that of the New England Conservatory wonderfully complete compartments are found-sound proof rooms where singing can be taught without disturbing the students of in- ftrumental music; concert halls with carefully developed acoustic proper ties: a greater array of pianos and more pipe organs than have been brought together under any other roof in the world.
  vi pr9Yeil in thn living accommoda- ti'"s throughout the group. The dorm i'ories of the New England Conserva- tory of Music represent probably a i ea'" trnn of the places of residence that will be established in great num- ffrs in and around the Fenway. They are not wildly luxurious. but they are absoutelv comfortable. The old idea of quartering students in barracks, l which prevailed in so many of the ear lv American colleges. has gone out l The modern university student no l longer rises in the morning to wrestle ! fer three-quarters of an hour with i rzeractory stove, nor does he have to seize 8 water pitcher and, shivering :,