Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-02-19
New Mexico Agricultural College is
in a Most Flourishing> and Sat-
isfactory Condition,
LARGE NUMBER OF STUDENTS
A New Mexican Staff Correspondent Has
Prepared Careful Description of This
Noble Institution and It's
Good Work.

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friends of education in the territory wi
be pleased to learn that the Agricu
tural college Is in fourishing cond
ton, and is rapidly extending its fel
of work and usefulness. This year tn
attendance numbers o12, the largest i
the history of the institution, and dun
ing the spring term that number vii
be increased by students who will cnte
to take special studies.
The large enrolment naturally fill
every department in manner that in
creases interest in the class work b.
reason of numbers. Since somethin,
OF the work of the farm and college ha
been outlined in the New MEXICAN a
different times in the past. it is not nee
cssary at this time to go into that mat
ter again, although it is intcrestin,
enough to bear repeating time an,
again. The one thing which the boart
of regents, the faculty and the student
are congratulating themselves over, i
the completion of two new buildings
the scientific hall and the young ladies
dormitory.
The scientific hall. which stands a
short distance north of the college build
| ing proper, is a more commodious build
ing than any heretofore erected. and
has been planned and built with special
reference for the purposes for which it
will be used. 1t contains Is largo rooms,
II on the first floor and seven on the
second. The rooms are all finished.
ready for use, and the fixtures and fit
tings used in the college building proper
have been moved in, but since the new
furniture ordered has not yet been re-
ceived considerable disorder obtains for
the present. But making the best of a
chOatic condition, classes are using the
various rooms assigned them.
The lower floor contains the labora-
tories, both for the students and the ex-
perimental station work. the assay fur
naces, six in number, and various
scientific instruments for experiments
In chemistry. Since many different
kinds of acids are used, some of them
given to kicking up deleterous atmos-
phcrlcal disturbances, the most of the
rooms are not plastered, and while
everything is nicely finished not much
style is put on. The second floor is de-
voted entirely to recitation purposes for
classes in the sciences, with the excep-
tion Of one room in which the govern
ment bugologist holds supreme sway.
This part of the building is nicely fin
ished. and when the new desks and
tables are in place will be the most at
tractive part Of the school.
During the Christmas HOLIDAYS the
fittings used in the old laboratories, for
merly located in the basement of the
college building. were moved into the
new quarters. The rooms thus vacated
have been fitted up as study and recita-
tion rooms for the preparatory depart
ment, and the crowded condition of the
Institution very materially relieved,
something much appreciated by every
one connected with the school.
The ladies dormitory is located in the
valley below the college grounds, about
a quarter of IL mile from the other
buildings and is a credit to the terri
tory The first floor is divided into: Re-
ception room, matrons room. dining
room, kitchen, pantry and china closet.
The reception room is furnished in cx-
cellent taste, having homelike and
cheerful appearance; the dining room is
very large. and will also be used by the
students when social affairs are given;
the kitchen is supplied with large
range. water heaters for supplying hot
water in every room, and other furnish
ings calculated to make life pleasant |
and indigestion impossible.
The second floor contains II large
rooms and bath room. The
sleeping rooms each contain two single
beds--two, three beds--bureau, dresser.
table and chairs. The furniture is sub
stantial and the beds are supplied with
the best in the way of mattresses and
linens. The dormitory now ready for
will remove one great diff
Guilty the college has had to contend with
that of finding homes for the young
women who wish to attend the institu
tiOn from distant parts of the territory. |
Charges for board and rooms will be
made sufficient to cover the actual cost
of running the table and caring for the
rooms and no more, which will bring
that item of expense to the young ladies
to very low figure.
The two buildings here described were
planned and erected under the super
vision of Rapp Bros, the Las Vegas
architects, and are standing monuments
to the ability and carefulness of those
gentlemen. The cost was SIT 200. SC. 900
for the dormitOry and $11 200 for the
scientific hall; nothing but the best of
was used in their construction,
and they are so built that whenever ad
iitiOns are necessary they can be made
without bungling the arrangement of
halls and rooms.
The machine, blacksmith and wood
shops, which were erected last
year, are fully equipped with the most
modern appliances and machinery, and.
while eastern schools have larger man
nal training departments, they certainly
have none that are better.
The question of an adequate water
supply has been puzzling the board of
regents for some time past, the increased
use of water made necessary by the new
having proved too much for
,he present supply, but that difficulty
will soon be overcome. The work Of
irving large and deep well has just
)egun, and when it is finished the pump
ng will be done with steam pump,
aking power from the boilers used in
he machine shops.
On March IA the scientific hall and
will be formally opened and
dedicated by appropriate exercises, and
cordial invitation Is extended to the
,eople of New Mexico to attend in q
,ody, or at least as many as can find 1t
and desire to visit the build
ngs become acquainted with the insti-
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