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 New England Conservatory of Music.

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��of this institution, due in such large measure to the courage and faith of one man, has been remarkable, and it stands to-day self-supporting, without one dol- lar of endowment, carrying on alone its noble work, an institution of which Bos- ton, Massachusetts and America may well be proud. From the first its invi- tation has been without limitation. It began with a firm belief that " what it is in the nature of a man or woman to become, is a Providential indication of what God wants it to become, by im- provement and development," and it of- fered to men and women alike the same advantages, the same labor, and the same honor. It is working out for it- self the problem of co-education, and it has never had occasion to take one backward step in the part it has chosen. Money by the millions has been poured out upon the schools and col- leges of the land, and not one dollar too much has been given, for the money

��that educates is the money that saves the nation.

Among those who have been made stewards of great wealth some liberal benefactor should come forward in be- half of this great school, that, by eighteen years of faithful living, has proved its right to live. Its founder says of it : " The institution has not yet compassed my thought of it." Cer- tainly it has not reached its possibilities of doing good. It needs a hall in which its concerts and lectures can be given, and in which the great organ of Music Hall, may be placed. It needs that its chapel, library, studios, gymnasium and recitation rooms should be greatly enlarged to meet the actual demands now made upon them. It needs what other institutions have needed and received, a liberal endow ment, to enable it, with them, to mee'c and solve the great question of the day, the education of the people.

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