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��New England Conservatoty of Music.

���should not be narrow, one-sided special- ists only, but that they should be cul- tured men and women, to add depart- ment after department, until to-day un- der the same roof and management there are well equipped schools of Music, Art, Elocution, Literature, Languages, Tuning, Physical Culture, and a home with the safeguards of a Christian family life for young women students.

When, in 1882, the institution moved from Music Hall to its present quarters

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��in Franklin Square, in what was the St. James Hotel, it became possessed of the largest and best equipped conserva- tory buildings in the world. It has upon its staff of seventy-five teachers, masters from the best schools of Europe. Dur- ing the school year ending June 29, 1884, students coming from forty-one states and territories of the Union, from the British Provinces, from England and from the Sandwich Islands, have re- ceived instruction there. The growth

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