Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-05-02

But these pilgrims are beginning 10
discover that engineering skill is also
building up a Boston that is a place.
One of the most spectacular evidences
of the new city which is enveloping
the little old town is the group of edu-
cational institutions now in process of
construction about the Fenway, a part
of the city's park system created by
the genius of Frederick Law Olmsted
out of the scraggly marsh that form
erly separated Boston from its suburb
of Brookline.
The various schools of this group
constitute a university to which no
name has been given. 1t has no com
mon president, no faculty You can
not get a catalogue of it by writing to
the secretary, for there is no secre-
tary. But It is going to be some
thing of a university just the same,
even If it has no legal existence, for a
lot of institutions of higher education
growing up side by side, each with its
quota OF students from every part of
the country, win come pretty near con
shutting a great unnamed university.
Schools with an aggregate attendance
of more than 5000 students have
either already settled or are about to
settle where but few years ago only
the dump-cart and the goat had en-
croached upon the primeval marsh
which earlier protected the beleag
uered British from General Washing
toms cannon shot. The present as
pect of the Fenway is still little raw
and ragged but the Fenway of ten
years hence, one that may yet interest
Americans as much as they are now
interested in Bunker Hill and Lexing
ton ana the Washington elm and Har-
ward college, is beginning to appear.
The completion of the white marble
two milion-dollar Harvard medical
school, endowed by J. Pierpont Morgan
and John d. Rockefeller, which is to
be opened for students next fall, will
mark another step forward in the
building of the Fenway university,
which in point of material equipment
is certain to compare fayorably with
those other great groups of American
educational institutions, the acropolis
on New York's Morningside Heights
or the grey city of schools and labra-
tories about the site of the Columbian
exposition on Lake Michigan.
Already several important schools
of the Fenway group are in operation,
amongst them the New England con
Servatory of music, with upwards of
1000 students, Simmons college for
women, attended by about 600 stu
dents. Tufts college medical and den
ia! schools, with over $50, the Elmer
son college of oratory, with about 400,
some of the classes of the 0chool of
the museum of fine arts, and the stu
dios of the Epic Pape art school, each
of which has upwards of 200 students.
Right in the center of the group is
Mrs. ], L. Gardeners celebrated Italian
palace, legally denominated The lisa
bella Stuart Gardner museum, and on
the north side are the buildings of the
Massachusetts medical society and
the Massachusetts historical society,
CdCH NuLn 'NbllCCtiOlS iIleit SiJll at
special students. Within a short time
the museum of fine arts will be re-
located with its treasures in a new
building on the Fenway, and all the
classes of the school connected with it
will then be brought together under
one roof. Other Institutions which
are shortly to follow in the trek to the
Fenway are the Boston normal college.
the Harvard dental school, the girls
Latin school of Boston and several
others of minor Importance. A num-
Der of hospitals are also scheduled
for location or relocation in the i'm
mediate neighborhood of the mei."al
schools, amongst them the chifdr ems
Al of Boston, the Thomas Nor
gan Rotch infants hospital, the Samar-
itan hospital, the free hospital for
women. and probably. the Brigham
hospital, for which a fund Of several
million dollars was left by the late.
Peter Brigham.
This university Of the Fenway in its
completeness viii represent the joint
efforts Of the community which has
brought together the finest park sys-
tenn in the United States, and of a