Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-03-03
UNIVERSITY OF
NEW MEXICO
Report Of Investigating Committee
Appointed by the Council, to
Members of Legislature
SCOPE OF THE INSTITUTION
Something of the Work Being Done by
Students and Faculty Recommends
lions Regarding Walter 9. Hadley
Memorial Hall.

The following is the report on the
University of New Mexico, located at
Albuquerque, made by the legislative
committee to the members of the legiS-
lature:
To the Members of the 33d Legislative Assem-
bly, of the Territory of New Mexico.
Santa Fe, N. M, March 1, 1s99.-Mr.
President and Speaker of the House:
Your committee appointed to investigate
the condition of the territorial Univer-
sity located at Albuquerque, N. NJ,
would report that it visited said institu-
ton and inspected the management of
the same and would beg leave to submit
| the following as the result of said in
vestigation:
The University of New Mexico is =
years old and furnishes the opportunity
of securing a complete college course
leading to the degrees of Bachelor of
Arts and of Science as well as the Mas
ter's degrees corresponding thereto. The
entrance conditions are substantially
the same as those of the leading older
colleges. There is also a fully organ
lied normal school and business col
lege.
The course of study in these depart
ments is fully abreast of such courses
offered in normal and business colleges
generally, and both these departments
have the advantage of the assistance
and influence of the instruction and
equipment of the academic departments.
There is a full four years course in each
college department, preparatory to
which is a three year preparatory course
for the benefit of those who live at a
distance from high schools. The most
complete high school course at present
given in the territory, that of the high
school in Albuquerque, prepares stud
ents to enter the second year of the
preparatory department, and students
of the high school in Albuquerque are
expected to complete that course before
entering the university preparatory
course. In this way a close connection
between the high schools and the uni
versity is kept up, and a similar ar
rangement to receive students with high
school credentials wherever the work in
those schools is sufficiently thorough is
provided for. As quickly as the high
schools will increase the scope of their
work and adopt a proper grading, the
lower classes in the university will be
curtailed or dropped. No %trenching on
the work of the public schools has been
permitted and it is desired that every in
ducement be offered to the latter to in
crease their efficiency.
There are no students in the university
who should be in the grammar grades of
the public schools. Four students are
at work in post graduate courses leading
to the masters degree, about a dozen in
the newly organized college courses and
in the applied science course of the lat
ter. The remainder of the enrolment
of over 100 students is distributed be-
tween the normal, business and prepara-
tory departments.
In addition to the work of instruction.
there is carried Of by the university
faculty a department of bacteriology
and pathology, which has been investi-
eating the climate and disease germs
and has assisted the physicians through
out the territory in the examination of
sputa and the study of diseased animals
and tissues. This department. which
has entailed very little expense, has done
a great work and is publishing the re-
suits of its Investigations in eastern
journals. Hundreds of examinations
have been made and statistics of great
value ale being gathered.
The gymnasium department is well
equipped and has well qualified instruc-
tors, for both men and women, in phys
lcal culture.
There has also been carried on a
geological and geological survey which
has cost the territory nothing, but which
has published over 200 pages of original
matter relating to the resources and the
products of the territory.
The faculty of the university is COM
posed of 16 instructors, nearly all of
whom are graduates of leading UNIVERSE
ties in this country and abroad. Yet
the salaries paid are less than in any
similar institution in the country, only
one member receiving more than 81, 200,
while the most of them receive much
less, and some are giving expert service
for simply the privileges of the labara-
tory and assistance in research. In this
way even the small classes in the uni
versity are receiving the guidance of
able and experienced professors. Much
of what has been done thus far has been
accomplished as the result of personal
sacrifice on the part of the instructors
employed, and the extent and efficiency
of the work done during the past two
years has almost doubled with no in
crease In appropriation.
The work of the University is carried
on in a single building of four stories
with the addition of a frame gymnasium
building, The main building contains
sixteen rooms used for class room s,
laboratory, offices, study rooms, library
and assembly hall. OF these only eight
are available for class purposes and lab
oratories. About twenty different SUBJ
jects are taught and each is often divid-
ed into several classes. For example,
there are six classes in mathematics,
five in English, four in Latin, etc, All
these classes with the accompanying
laboratory work must be crowded into
the eight rooms. Two classes must often
be at work in the anne room. In one
laboratory the work in geology, zoology,
botany, comparative anatomy, and
bacteriology, is all crowded into o single
apartment. 1t Is obvious that this con-
gested condition interferes with the eff
~ticiency of the work.
The proposition by Mrs. Walter {.
Hadley to donate ten thousand dollars,
If a like sum can be otherwise secured,
for the erection Of a Hadley Memorial
Hall is worthy the attention of this
legislature. While the hall is to be dedi-
Gated to Walter c. Hadley it is to be
used by the University as a hall having
for it's principal purpose scientific re-
searcfrof all kinds but more particularly
to be devoted to the study of climat-
ology and the effects of our climate
upon diseases. The health and life
giving qualities of Il climate
have been long known, but unfort-
.tunately only known to a very limited