New England Conservatory of Music - Neume Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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905 THE NEUME Board of Edltors -AL Editor in Chief WILSON TowNsEND Mooc Associate Editors SUSAN EMMA DROUGHT ANNA IRENE NIORRIS HARRY B. KEELER VIOLA MAY SHAW CLARA FRANCES MALLORY CARRIE BISHOP STANLEY flrt Editor FLOYD BIGELOW DEAN Business Manager ROBERT ROSCOE STEEVES I . 'X Tb ,eff N- I l 4 A fe 0 XSL ffr Ragga? x vs

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BOARD or EDITORS

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I0 THE NEUME 1905 Progress of the Conservatory By H. N. REDMAN AL O be so devoted to an ideal that its realization becomes the chief object of an individual's life is, indeed, true evidence of that strange power which manifests itself in all leaders of a nation. The successful development of any enterprise demands from its creator strength of purpose, unconquerable will, and a faith which rebuilds after every defeat. The New England Conservatory of Music, incorporated in 1870 by a special act of the Legislature of the State of Massachusetts, claims 1853 as the date of its origin, since in that year its founder, Dr. Eben Tourjee, first introduced into America the conservatory system of musical instruction. Dr. Tourjee had for some time been impressed with the value of the class system as it existed in the foreign music schools, and his earliest experiments were made in Providence, R. I., these resulting in the Providence Conser- vatory of Music. This institution having outgrown its environment was removed to .Boston in 1867. Rooms were secured in Music Hallg the public became interested in the new school, and three years later it was incorporated under the present name. E The attendance became large enough to compel the removal of the Conservatory to more commodious quarters, and as Dr. Tourjee found it advisable to obtain a building suitable for teaching purposes, as well as affording enough room for a home department for the accommodation of the young women students coming from all parts of the country, in 1882 he secured the large building on Franklin Square, then known as the St. James Hotel, and for twenty years it was the home of the institution. In 1885 Dr. Tourjee, finding the increased responsibilities of his enter- prise too great for him to bear alone, a Board of Trustees, composed of representative men of Boston, was organized, and thereafter this Board managed its affairs. The founder of the institution was given the musical directorship for life. Fate seems at times most unrelenting in her cruelty, heartlessness, and ingratitude. To-day we may well stand with uncovered head before the bust of this man, who, because of his great art-love, counted