Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-10-24
THE MILITARY
INSTITUTE
It Is Located at Roswell and Is the
Most Successful Territorial
School.
ACCOMMODATIONS CROWDED
The New Mexico Military Institute Is an
Ideal School for Boys-Its Superin-
tendent Is a Scholar and Good
Disciplinarian.

WOfQ comes from ROSWELL tnat the
New Mexico Military Institute is hav-
ing a more successful year ever han
last year., when it stood as a peer Of all
the other educational institutions in
New Mexico, both as to the number of
actual students and their attachments.
Two days before the opening of the
school for this term the barracks were
filled to the last bed, and work on the
new dormitory had to be completed be-
fore another student could be taken.
This gives promise of the institute soon
becoming s~elf-sustaining. This is due
t., the good management and indomita-
BILE energy of the superintendent, Col. j..
G. Meadors, supported by a board of re
gents who are men of affairs in every
respect. During the summer Superin-
tendent Meadors covered $4,000 miles in
his travels on behalf of the school, n
that is what brought the rush of appli-
cants to the institute. Colonel Meadors
Is not only a scholar, but also a fluent
and energetic speaker, and he knows
the value of printers ink better than do
most business men. His Photographic
outfit which he carries with him on his
travels is a decidedly original idea, and
brings the school and it's surroundings
very vividly before those who have new
err seen them. Says a Texas newspaper
of the school in a recent issue:
Never in the history of western edu-
cation has any school attained within
,, ~ ou+ n ,uL;1o ,,,ol, x,,o11. oo -, al ,on,, ~
tation. Founded only two years ago, it
is to-day unquestionably the strongest
boys training school in the southwest.
Last session it was simply first among
the first in everything. Its students not
only learned books, and really went to
school, but did everything else equally
we'll. The N. M. I. ball teams and track
teams were the best in the whole west:
the military work receives high com
pliments from every army man; the
commissary is praised by the best no.
tel men.
Truly, it is a remarkable piece of or
ganization and management. The
school has been fortunate in having a
body VI lS6CIto II wei az jim nun"
est men and business men. They had
more good fortune in their choice Of a
superintendent. Colonel Meadors is a
man of affairs. He is a good scholar and
a ready writer, a fluent speaker, and
very energetic. 1t is doubtful If the
vasser.
He knows printers ink as few men
do; his little circulars, etc., are perfect
gems of concise business English. His
photograph outfits are delightfully."- orig
inal and very effective. He is a fine
mixer, and has by far the largest ac-
q~uaintance of any of the school men.
The result is that the New Mexico Mill
tary Institute is getting students from
Minnesota to Mexico, and from Dallas
to San Francisco. It is the only school
in the southwest not chiefly supported
by local patronage; several towns in
western Texas each send more students
than Roswell.
But the school itself is we'll worthy of
a good %canvasser. The management of
all departments exhibits the same ener-
getic and businesslike methods. There
is an earnestness of purpose n an
honesty of action about the military in
stitute hat commends it to all classes
of people; the school grows every day
in public esteem, and las a strong flu
ture.
It's location could not be surpassed;
the climate is almost perfect; all APP
pointments and equipments are strictly
modern, and the very best. The fees,
5000 per year, are lower than at n
school Of the kind in the Union. The
six instructors are all graduates, and
honorable men at that, of the very best
colleges in America and E~urope-and
one familiar with the history of west
ern education, and especially New Mex
leo schools, finds himself astonished at
discovering what this school has ac-
complished with the money at its COM
mand.
The school is a credit to New Mexico,
and we'll worthy of the liberal patron
age it is receiving from all parts of the
country.
The New Mexican described the
school and its methods at length only a
few months ago, and will therefore re-
frain from doing so at this time, but in
formation about the institution can be
obtained by writing to Col. j. G.. Mead.
ors at Roswell, who Is never too busy
Or too tired to speak Of the New Mexi-
&C Military Institute and the good 1t is
doing for the young men Of New Mex
leo.