Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-04-29
AGREAT BUT NAMELESS UNIVERSITY

Boston, April 2l.--One of the larg est-dcstined perhaps to be the very largest-of the universities of the world is rapidly coming into existence in this city, having for it's campus what short time ago was t stretch of salt marsh threaded by a muddy little river, tianked on one side by base ball grounds and terminating in all unsightly tidal estuary DOW in process of conversion into an ornamenta fresh water lake.
 Boston used to be called 2 state of mind. That in reality has been chief asset of the community. Because of the state of mind that produced Longfellow and Emerson and the Al tucrat of the Breakfast Table and all the rest. thousands of Americans from every part of the United Statts make pilsrimages to the New England city.
 But these pilgrims are beginning to discover that er<aeering 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 cid town is t1e group of etl ucationai institutions now in process of construction about the Fenway. a part of the city's park system created by the genius of Frederick. Law Olm- sted out of the scraggly marsh that formerly separated Boston from it's suburbs of Brookline.
 The various schools of this group constitute a university to which no name has been given. l. nas no com mon president no faculty You can- rot get catalogue of it by writing to the secretary, for there is no secre. tary. But it is going to be someth- ing of a university, just the same, even if it has no legal existence, for a lot of institutions of higher educa-
 
 with it's quota of students from every party of tho country, will come pretty Lear constituting a great unnamed university. Schools with an aggre- gate attendance of more than 5000 students have either already settled Hl are about to settle where but a few years ago only the dump-cart and the goat had encroached upon the primaeval marsh which earlier pro- tected the beleaguered British from General Washington's cannon shot. The present aspect of the Fenway is still a little raw and ragged, but the Fenway of ten years hence, one that may yet interest Americans as much as the are now interested in Bunker Hill and Lexington and the Washing tor Elm and Harvard college, is be. ginning to appear. The completion Of the white marble two million dollar Harvard Medical school, endowed by .. 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 tnway university, which in noint of material equipment is certain to com. pare favorably with those other great groups of American educational insti- In ,s- Morningside Heights or the grey city of schools and laboratories about the site of the Worlds Columbian Expo- sition on Lake Michigan.
 Already several important schools of the Fenway group are in opera. tion, amongst them the New England Conservatory of Music, with upwards of 2,000 students. Simmons collage for women, attended by about GOO stu dents, Tufts College Medical and Den. tai schools, with over G5O. the Elm. erson College of Oratory, with about 400, some of the classes of the school of the Museum of Fine Arts, and the studios of the Erie Paper Art s.nool, each of which has upwards of 200 stu dents. Right in the center of the group is Mrs. J. l.. Gardner's cele. trated "The Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum in the Fenway, Limited" and On the north side are the buildings of the Massachusetts Medical society and the Massachusetts Historical SO ciety, each with collections that at tract special students. " thin short time the museum of Fine Arts will be relocated with it's immense treasu- res in a new building en the Ferway and all the classes of the school con- nected with it will then be brought together under one roof Other in stitutions which are shortly to follow in the trek to the Fer NY arC the