El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-23
COLLEGE NOTES

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Latest Dolngs At the New Mexico
Agricultural CoI1ege-Bdsket
Ball-prof. Refers Farewell
Minor Matters.
Will Walthall, of Tulaross !,
New Mexico, recently enrolled as 9
student.
A large number of college people,
both teachers and students, have visit
ed Ell Paso during the last two weeks
for the purpose of making Christmas
purchases. The trade received bv EI
Paso from this institution il conside-
rable.
The Christmas vacation commences
on Saturday, the 23rd, inst, and CON
tinues until Monday. January 9Th. A
number of students will spend their
vacation at their homes.
Ralph e. McFie, son of Judge John
r. McF'ie of Santa Fe, is q visitor at
the college. aud will remain until af-
ter Christmas. Mr.. McFie is grad
uate of the steuography departments of
position as sten0grspher and deputy
clerk In the first district court of Santa
Fe.
A reception was given at the ladies'
dormitory on the night of Thursday,
the 21st inst, In honor OF Professor G.
A. Keffer, who leaves on Friday for
Tennessee. The reception was largely
attended, in spite of the Indictment
weather, by the many friends of
the college and from Las Cruces.
The failure to bring off the proposed
foot ball match between the Kansas
University team and the college team,
which was billed for the Goth inst, to
be played in Ell Paso, was a source of
much disappointment. The Kansas
team found it would be Improbable to
account of the few engagements booked,
and accordingly their team has dis
banded for the season.
Athletic interests in the college now
centers around the basket ball game to
be played with the Albuquerque bas-
ket ball team on Saturday evening, the
23rd inst, and the Christmas day foot
ball game with the Albuquerque In
dian school team. The muddy grounds
have prevented practice during the
last few days, but the college team is
confident OF a victory on Christmas
afternoon. Admission to the game is
81. 90 and q large visiting contingent
from Las Cruces ia looked for. The
game will be the leading one of the
season and will decide the champion
ship of New Mexico, as the Albuquer-
que Indians recently defeated the Santa
Fe Indians by score of II to 5.
Professor Charles A. Keffer has re-
signed his position from the chair of
agriculture and horticulture in this in
stitution to accept the chair of h0rti-
culture In the University of Tennessee,
at Knoxville, Tennessee, to which he
was recently unanimously elected.
Professor Refers action was largely
Influenced by the condition of his sis-
ter's health. During the short time
that Professor Keffer has been with
he has made many friends. His en-
desvors to build up his department to
what 1t ought to be have met with
success, and his
work has attracted oon-
siderable amount of attention
throughout the territory, for its prac-
tical features. The newspaper bulle-
tins issued during the spring and sum-
mer, every week, were always found to
contain practical and needed Informs
ton of use to the farmers and fruit
growers of this part of the country.
Professor Keffer will carry with him
to his new field of labor the heartiest
good wishes of his numerous friends.
No successor has as yet been elected,
and it is possible that the position will
remain vacant for short time.
At the general exercises, held on
last, Professor Keffer made
farewell address to the student body.
He confined his remarks to discussion
Of the value of college training as
3 means of aiding in the enjoyment of
life. ''We should" he said, study
everything that will best help Us TO en-
Joy life fully, for this I conceive to be
The leading object OF existence. The
man whose education in botany, the
study of the soil and of animal life and
similar subjects, is such that
things is immeasurably in advance of
that man who sees them yet knows
nothing of them. The great end of
education is to add to the enjoyment of
life. believe that there will come
time when the colleges of our country
will take this view-that the purpose
Of q college course is to give q proper
basis for future
The ",. reg regular ae.n, col d.
of college work and thought,
pines science with the old-time human
ties. The one great defect in our
modern colleges is the ignoring of
these regular lines of study, and I be-
ieve that as the years 60 by there will
oe, as there should be, fewer and few
n of the special courses of study and
# special students, and more OF the
ocular work on the lines of the regu-
ar college courses of this institution"
Railroad Company Will Appeal.
Judge Kemp, attorney for the South
rn Pacific railroad company, in the