Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-07-02
NEW MEXICO MILL
TARY INSTITUTE
In Many Respects it is the Best
Military Training School in the
Entire Southwest.
MORE THAN LOCAL SCHOOL
A Faculty Of Seven Good Instructors The
Superintendent is a Young Man Of
Many Years Experience Pros
porous Year Just Closed.

many 1o0IS 1xporlonCo "A IToS-
porous Year Just Closed.
Colonel j. w. Wilson, superintend-
ent of the New Mexico Military Insti-
tute, arrived in the capital city yester-
ldaY and will spend few days in look
ling IN the interests of that young but
nRat prosperous military training
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| Colonel Wilson Is making a canvass
of the territory examining the appoin-
tees and becoming acquainted with
the patrons of the school throughout
the country. The New Mexico Military
Institute is the only territorial school
which is not in a measure a local
school. All cadets are required to live
| in the school and be under regular gar
rison rules. Every part of the terri
last year cadets were enrolled from as
many as six states.
Cadets are required to stand phys
ical examination upon entrance. 1t Is
therefore impossible for latent diseas-
es to escape prompt attention, and IL
others the applicant is not permitted
to enter the school. Special pains are
taken to give plenty of good wholesome
food; clean, comfortable quarters and
as good a living as can be found at
any school of this kind in the world.
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required to live at the institute and
take their meals in the mess hall with
the cadets.
The cadets are under the immediate
care of instructors both day and night,
it is therefore impossible for boys to
haze or bully each other.
The course of study is thorough and
embraces all of the studies taught in
the training schools and colleges Of the
union. At present two preparatory
classes are necessary in addition to the
four usual collegiate classes.
Cadets holding county appointments
must be able to enter the fourth or
lowest collegiate class, for 1t Is not
probable that an appointee will hold
his commission longer than four years,
and it is to the interest of all that ev-
cry cadet should finish the entire col
legiate course.
The superintendent is young man,
30 years Of age, but with fifteen years
experience as cadet and commandant
in military training school work. He
has been with the New Mexico Mill
tary Institute ever since it was open
ed by the regents in September, 1873.
The faculty consists of seven vIgor-
ous young men, five of whom are hon
or men of good northern and eastern
colleges. The regents selected two
members Of the first class to act as as
sistant instructors In military tactica
and IN the preparatory department.
Major Martini Mancini, the profess
sor of modern languages, Is native cf
Italy and Of Spanish extraction. Be.
fore coming to this country he was a
lieutenant in the Italian army. The
other members of the faculty are well
fitted for the places which they fill and
two of them are splendid athletes. I'm
til the new building Is completed the |
regents do not admit more than 100 |
Cadets last session the school was full |
from September to June, and from the |
present prospects, Major Wilson |
thinks he will be able to fill the |
school and be forced to reject students |
by the time next session opens.
The regents of the school are Hon. |
M. A. Otero, governor of New Mexico, |
and Colonel J. F. Chaves, superintend-
ent of public instruction; Nathan Jaf-
ia. w. M. Read, j. c. Lea, R. S. Ham
ilton and e. A. Cahoon. These men
are all practical business men and
highly respected by the people of New
Mexico, they take especial pains to |
make the school worthy of the sup
port and patronage Of the citizens of
the territory. and 1t is fast becoming
one of the best schools of it's kind In
the entire southwest.
The national government and indi-
viduals agree in expressing a prefer
ence for young men who have receiv-
ed a military training and under pres
ant political and Industrial conditions
there is a stronger demand for such
than ever before in the coun-
try's history. The far reaching effect
Of the present national policy is likely
to have no parallel. For this cause
the New Mexico Military Institute lays
stress upon military training
and perfect mastery Of the Spanish
language, designing to fit young men
,or that peculiar form Of civil life up
,n which 1t seems probable that large
will shortly enter.
The New Mexico Military Institute is
at Roswell. the best watered and sha-
ied town in New Mexico. Roswell is
supplied with abundance Of fresh wa
ter from its artesian wells and the
cotton woods grown to a magnificent
size, supplying good shade. The town
s growing and will soon be one of the
leading cities of the territory.
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