Eureka Reporter | 1905-06-02 | Page 5 | College at Short Notice

college at short notice in springfield mass there Is a tain fash enable part of the city known as the mcknight district named after A S mcknight who was the original promoter and developer of what was a quarter century ago a wilderness each street in the district bears the name ot a university or col lege in america or great britain street after street was laid out but soon the long list of college be came exhausted i 4 jb what are we going to name this streeta asked a clerk ot mr me night they searched in vain for a colle diate cognomen but even the most obscure institutions for learning had been already u ed mr mcknight thought a while and then exclaimed wire andrew carnegie tell him we re badly in need of names for streets in our ask him to found a university and wire me th at once new lork