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The thing most needed in Cambridge.
We need the
Metropolitan Park System completed.
Then
Cambridge will have one of the most superb driveways in
America, bordering the
Charles, with the handsome fronts of stately residences facing the water.
We need a fine fountain on the common.
We need — alas!
that it should be so!-an Art Museum that will be a joy to the eyes.
As has been suggested, it should stretch its beautiful colonnades and graceful arches of stone and brick-harmonizing with old “
Massachusetts” in line and color-along the great green terrace, between the
President's house and Gore Hall.
With its stately beauty, what an impressive approach to the
University, as we came up Massachusetts avenue!
We need a large, commodious hall for lectures and concerts.
We need a small, but perfectly kept, hotel.
Many other things for use and for beauty we need; but most of all, we need in our city of rapidly increasing population, good homes for our working-people — model tenements.
In a few years the park system will render “The
Marsh” too valuable for its present occupants.
Its shabby, dirty tenements, with slimy pools surrounding them after a rain, must then be swept away to