Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-07-16
Opens September Next With Full
Corps of Teachers and Thor
oughly Equipped.
ITS MAGNIFICENT LOCATION
Healthy, Beautiful Grounds Strand Build
ing-Able Observation-Disclosures Train
ing Institution for Boys-Ample
Facilities for All Purposes.

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throughout the country. Having learned
the lesson that in peace we must prepare
for war, and in view of the problem of
new found possessions. the school of the
soldier is henceforth indispensable to the
republic.
Military discipline, always conceded
to be a valuable aid in the education of
a citizen, now finds a practical demand
such as we have not felt for a whole
generation. 1t is fortunate that just at
the moment that demand becomes a
reality, New Mexico is ready to meet it
with her Military Institute, located at
Roswell, and to be opened for the first
time next September.
The New Mexico Military Institute
was really created by the legislature of
1895, though the bonds issued for its
erection and equipment were not nego-
tiated until May, 1897.
The deliberate and careful manage
ment of it's regents, who are all well
known business men, is highly commend
able, the school is ready for occupation
at the very time when needed, and with
no debts or en%cumbrances Upon it.
The buildings have been completed,
furnished and equipped within the past
four months, and in every particular are
thoroughly modern.
The grounds, embracing 40 acres up
on the high level table,land above Ros-
well, were laid off, fenced, planted with
trees and irrigated two years since.
They have recently been sodded in Ber-
muda grass.
1t would be difficult to find a more
admirable location. The altitude of
3,7OO feet is unquestionably the best OBJ
tainable for growing youth; the abund-
ance of excellent water at Roswell is
well known; while the climate during
that portion of the year when schools
are in session, has hardly q rival in the
world.
The buildings are four stories, includ-
ING the splendid basement which is al
most perfect.
The subsistence department is en-
tirely in this basement, where are locat-
ed the mess hall capable of seating 100
people, the kitchen with a magnificent
double range large enough to feed $50
cadets daily; the laundry, boilers, bath
rooms, water-closets, armory, and the
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battle at the same time. The pressure
from the 5000 gallon tank, So feet high,
is sufficient to throw water over the
highest parts of the building.
The ~section-rooms and assembly hall
are all in the first story, most of the in
ner walls being Wilson's rolling parti-
tions of hard pine. The school-rooms
are seated with the best chair desks.
The second story has the offices, par
lors, intirmary and bedrooms for 80
students. all built around and opening
upon a large drill-hall lighted from
above and from smaller halls.
In the third story are the library and
reading room, music rooms and bed
rooms for so cadets. All furnishings
are the very best now in use at American
boarding schools.
The building has hot and cold water
on every floor, as well as complete fire
apparatus, is heated by steam and light
ed by gas from top to bottom, and has
throughout a perfect system of water
works and sewerage. The main sewer
ends 400 yards from the grounds and so
feet below them.
1t would be difficult to surpass the
heating, lighting and ventilation of this
admirable building; it is doubtful if there
is a building in all the west so well
adapted to the purposes of erection.
There is no reason why a boy here
should not be as we'll cared for as at the
best hotel in the country, for all things
are provided necessary for his health,
development, education, happiness and
substantial comfort.
Ample facilities are afforded for foot
ball, baseball, tennis, and even swim
ming and boating. No point in the ter
ritory can surpass Roswell in such ad-
vantages.
In the selection of their faculty, the
regents have shown much practical
sense; in taking for the work, five vigor-
Gus, able-bodied young men, all of whom
hold the degrees of the best colleges in
America, they give the people of the
territory a guarantee that their teachers
will be neither feeble invalids nor ig-
norant a%dventurers.
One teacher is a native of Maine, an
other of California, another of Massa-
chusetts. another of Louisiana, another
of Virginia-which would seem to in
dictate that sectional lines and preiudices
have not been consulted or regarded.
\ 1t is, however, in the proposed course
of study and system of management
! that the New MEXICAN finds most to
commend.
The regents compel all officers, teach
ers, cadets, and employees to reside to-
gether in the school buildings, to eat at
the same tables, wear the same uni
forms. and use the same sort of rooms
and furnishings.
The officers of the institute are re-
sponsible for the student at all hours of
the day and night during every week OF
the session, responsible for his work,
his health, his comfort, his bearing, his
mental, moral and physical development,
The admirable announcement OF
the regents is full Of common sense; in
so emphatically declaring their inten.
ton to make and maintain a practical
training school they have struck the
keynote to real education in this terri
tory. 1t is perfectly absurd to under
take high-grade university work, or
even low-grade collegiate work, with
boys who have not completed a respecta'
BILE high school course.
Moreover, it is clearly impossible tt
make strong students out OF material
that has no inherent power, none OF
that budding virility which a first-class
training school, seems to impart. The
elements of a man must be provided be-
fore much real scholarship can be Sc
cured, and to those Of us who regard
: citizenship of greater Importance than
scholarship, the action of the regents of
the New Mexico Military Institute is
extremely gratifying. The New MExI-
CAN wishes the school unbounded sue
cess, and we hope 1t will continue, as it
now is, free from all political and sec
tartan influences.
The school should from the start re-
ceive o liberal patronage from all parts