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

OLnef institutions OF the fenWd4
also represent the generosity of Ameri-
can philanthropists. The school of theI
museum of fine arts. some of the
classes of which are now conducted in
the studio building, is heavily en-
dowed. Simmons college exists
mainly through the beneficence of the
late John Simmons of Boston, who
left somewhat more than a million dol
lars to create an institution giving in
struction in such branches of art
science and industry as will enable
women to earn an independent liyeli-
hood
One of the earliest of the Fenway
group to get into active operation was
the New England conservatory of mu-
sic which in 1902 moved into its hand
some new building on Huntington Ave
nue., about a block from the Fenway,
and at the same time into three new
dormitories for young women students,
directly overlooking the Fenway.
Although the millionaires of this coun-
try are only beginning to consider the
needs of musical institutions, which
are in reality more dependent upon
endowment than almost any other
class of educational institutions, va
rious benefactOrs have already done
enough for this conservatory to make
it beyond peradYenture the best
equipped musical school in the world.
Its board of trustees includes, of
course, a number of Boston's eminent
citizens who have given generously
from their resources. Perhaps the
largest single giver is Eben d. Jordan,
the Boston merchant, whose munifi-
cence made possible Jordan hall, the
best equipped concert auditorium in
America.
Because of the financial support that
has been given and that can still be
counted upon, marked characters
tic of all the schools composing the
Fenway group. is the attention that
has been given to adequate educational
equipment and physical comfort. The
pathological and meteorological labo-
ratories of the Harvard medical school
soon TO be opened represent the most
advanced type of medical school work
room. Similarly in such a building as
that of the New England conservatory
wonderfully complete compartments
and apparatus are found-sound proof
rooms where singing can be taught
without disturbing the students of in
strumental 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
The same degree of completeness
will prevail in the living accommoda-
tions throughout the group The dor
mitories of the New England con
servatory of music represent probably
a fair type of the places of residence
that will be established in great num-
bers in and around the Fenway. They
are not wildly luxurious, but they are
absolutely comfortable. The old idea
of quartering students in barracks.
which prevailed in so many Of the
early American colleges, nas gone out.
The modern university student no
longer rises in the morning to wreStle
for three-quarters of an hour with a
refractory stove, nor does he have u
seize water pitcher and. shivering
with cold, make for a pump in the
middle of the yard. He no longer even
burns the malodorous midnight oil;
electric light at one cent per hour
serves him better Gathered in three
thoroughly modern buildings over
looking the Fenway, with Mrs. Gard.
ner's palace in the middle distance and
the great white mass of the medical.
school buildings on the other side.
cleaning against the hills of Brook
line and Jamaica Plain, the young
women musicians were the first to be
permanently CHARTERED on the campus
Of the big nameless university. In
another angle of the Fenway Simmons
college has more lately opened the
first Of series Of students residences.
IN all these the young people live the
life that is common to communities Of
college girls everywhere. with plenty
Of serious studies and also not a few
fudge" parties