The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . (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 anddisappo
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . (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. NU^ lag the judgment of the great masters,Mendelsshon, David, and Joachim, thatthe conservatory system was the bestpossible system of musical instruction,doing for music what a college of liberalarts does for education in general, in 1853, with what seems tohave been large and earnest faith, andmost entire devotion, took the first pub-lic steps towards the accomplishment ofhis purpose. During the long years hisplan developed step by step. In 1870 the institution was chartered under itspresent name in Boston. In 1881 itsfounder deeded to it his entire personalproperty, and by a deed of trust gavethe institution into the hands of a Boardof Trustees to be perpetuated forever asa Christian Music School. In the carrying out of his plan to es-tablish and equip an institution thatshould give the highest musical Tourjee has been compelled, inorder that musicians educated here 378 New England Conservatoty of Music.
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