Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1899-08-18
Something About the Aim and
~ Scope Of IFS. worktbE
The First Annual Catalogue lust
Issued-The School OF
Commerce.

slty building offers pleasing lntr0duc
tory to the book. The university COM
prises five separate departments, VIZ
Normal school, 2 graduate school, faca
demic grade, manual training schoo
and commercial school. The board oi
regents consists of Frank Springer
president; M. w. Browne, secretary
treasurer; Charles .Ilfeld, Rev. Geo
SelbY and A. B. Smith. The calendar
year consists of four quarters OF terms
beginning October and ending. Sep
I.tepberNSe following titus constituting
faSconfinuous session throughout the en-.
tire year, winter and summer. The
week of June 10 81 is commencement
week proper, concluding with gradual.
ing exercises and music festival. The
speeisl lsummer term begins July and
continues until the registration day of
the fall term on October 2. The faculty
consists of the following: Edgar L.
Hewett, pedagogy, educational psyche
Iogy, sociology; Richard II. Powell,
librarian. literature and history; Will
matte Porter pfeceptress, biological
science and training work; Inez d. Rice,
physical science and mathematics;
James Graham McNsry, languages and
vocal music; w. L. Edwards, principal
commercial school; Wellington B. Civ.
ems, principal training school; Eleanore
NJ. Hill, reading, physical culture and
training work; Grace. G. Dickinson, art
and training work.
/ The model school faculty consists of
the following Maggie ]. Boucher,
pripcipaE EJessie M. Hines, model
teacher, grammar grades; Florence
Harley, model lteaoher, grammar grades;
Elba d. Stoneroad, model teacher,
primary grades; Martha p. Owen, mo-
del teacher, primary grades.
1t is not possible in this article to give
synopsis of the contents of the cata-
logue, which is pamphlet of fifty
seven pages. Extracts as follows from
the general statement will no doubt
prove of general interest:
BY an act of the territorial legisla-
ture of 1893, the New Mexico Normal
School at Las Vegas was created. The
proceeds of the special tax levied at
that time for the erection of building
wlth<the addition of $4,000 appropri-
ated by the legislature in 1895. and the
sum of Sl9,70O advanced by the citizens
.efTLas Vegas in 1898, were applied to
the erection and equipment of the beau
tifni brown sandstone-building now oc
cupied by the school.
On Oct. 3, 1885, the institution was
opened with ninety-two students en-
rolled, and before the end of the first
quarter the number had increased to
one hundred and fifty. 1t appears that
the4frst years enrolment will reach
two hundred.
The 33d legislative assembly, in Feb
|ruary, 1899, extended the scope Of the
institution Ly creating 1t "The New
Mexico Normal University" and by d.
recting that a Manual Training School
and kindergarten Training School be
established in connection with it. An
ERppropriationof $4,000 was. made .fel
| the purpose of reimbursing the citizens
of Las Vegas for the amount advanced
by them.to complete the building, and
an additional mlllage tax was levied fol
Ilmaintenance,a 2hlIi iiW
On the 4th of March, 1899, the build.
ing was. completed, and dedicated to
the purpose for which it was created.
The institution is only what its name
implies. Courses of university grade
will be offered in no other subjects than
which properly come under the head Of
higherpedagogic degreess y
Forthe training of teachers for the
pd9lie schools, higher pedagogic educa'
ton, general academic work.. manual
training and comnsrcial work, the in
lstitution will offer excellent facilities.
SCHOOL OF COMMERCE.,
In a brochure of eighteen pages the
advantages Of the School of Commerce
ian integral part Of the New Mexico
Normal University" are set forth by
the principal, Professor w. l.. Edwards
Aihthe detaiisyofs modern business op'
erations are taught In the School OF
IC6mmeres, such as bookksepi1gs com
Emsreial afithmstic, commercial law
business correspondence. penmanshiI
and rapid calculation, typewriting
grammar. economies and government
Commercial and shorthand students are
given the same gymnasium privileges
as other stadsnts Of the university.
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