The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . anly minds are growing, womanly lives areshaping, and womanly patience is wait-ing until every barrier shall be removed,and all the green fields of learning shallbe so free that whosoever will m£.y the foremost of the great edu-cational institutions of the dav, the NewEngland Conservatory of Music takesrank, and its remarkable development and wonderful growth tends to pro^ethat the youth of the land desire thehighest advantages that can be offeredthem. More than thirty years ago theg
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . anly minds are growing, womanly lives areshaping, and womanly patience is wait-ing until every barrier shall be removed,and all the green fields of learning shallbe so free that whosoever will m£.y the foremost of the great edu-cational institutions of the dav, the NewEngland Conservatory of Music takesrank, and its remarkable development and wonderful growth tends to pro^ethat the youth of the land desire thehighest advantages that can be offeredthem. More than thirty years ago thegerm of the idea that is now embodiedin this great institution, found lodgmentin the brain of the man who has de-voted his life to its development. Be-lieving that music had a positive in- \^6 Neiv Englaiiil Conseriatoiy of Music. s^ ^M,^; ^i^ir^^pepartoef^t. (luence upon the elevation of the worldhardly dreamed of as yet even by itsmost devoted students, Eben Tourjeereturned to America from years of mu-sical study in the great Conservatoriesof Europe. Knowing from personal ob-servation the difficulties that lie in theway of American students, especiallv of young and inexperienced girls who seekto obtain a musical education abroad,battling as they mustj not only withforeign customs and a foreign language,but exposed to dangers, temptations anddisappointments, he determined to foundin America a music school that shouldbe unsurpassed in the world. Accept- New England Consefvatory of Music. 377 44. , ?^^!;^^~^ )&|9[\kk
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