Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good . CHAPTER XXXI POLICY AND METHODS OF THE METROPOLITAN PARKCOMMISSION, 1896 The only failure a man ought to fear, is failure in clinging to thepurpose he knows to be best. — Geokge Eliot. A LAUGE number of bills calling for various park or park-way appropriations were presented to the legislature of presentation of these bills and the reception accorded tothem seemed to Charles to prove that the principles on whichmetrop
Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good . CHAPTER XXXI POLICY AND METHODS OF THE METROPOLITAN PARKCOMMISSION, 1896 The only failure a man ought to fear, is failure in clinging to thepurpose he knows to be best. — Geokge Eliot. A LAUGE number of bills calling for various park or park-way appropriations were presented to the legislature of presentation of these bills and the reception accorded tothem seemed to Charles to prove that the principles on whichmetropolitan money could alone be equitably expended forpark and parkway purposes were but imperfectly understoodby the legislature and the public. He thereupon addressedto the Metropolitan Park Commission, in February, the twoletters with which this chapter opens; and later (April 1st)he read before a meeting of the Commission with the Com-mittee of the legislature on Metropolitan Affairs the convin-cing paper which follows the letters. Having thus definedanew what he believed to be the true principles in selectingparks and parkways for the metropolitan population,
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