Musical Education in America

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In respect of educational equipment, America just now is like a sponge filled with water in every part of its organism. Schools, colleges, universities, abound in every State, and the mechanical means provided for their efficiency are unequalled in the case of any other country. If time had permitted, I should have liked to have described some educational centres, such as the finely equipped universities of Stanford, California; Cornell, New York; Urbana, Illinois; Madison, Wisconsin; Yale, Connecticut; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Lawrence, Kansas; Seattle, Washington; and others at which I have lectured. It is sufficient to say that, in external appearance, in general facilities and breadth of opportunity, these places are probably second to none of the kind in the world.