Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-06-21

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The four medals for good conduc
and department during the recreation
and study hall hours, We're awarded t,
r. Mrabal, b. Otero, F. Martinez, anc
p. Gonzales, respectively.
There were no graduates at thi:
the two young men, who might other
wise be entitled to the honor, We're pre-.
vented during the year by sickness
from completing the required course
st. MichaePS has not such a far-fetched
or pretentious curriculum as some of its
younger competitors; it aims at thor
oughness in the knowledge of the ele-
mentary branches, and of such SUBJ
jects as fit it's students to grapple with
the onerous realities of common life,
and in addition to this, it lays broad
and solid educational foundation, which
it's students If so inclined, may contin-
ue into the technical avenues of
professional life. Latin and Greek have
no place in the curriculum but then
they are more than replaced by such
useful languages as French, German,
and Spanish. In addition to English,
there is scarcely a brother at the
college who is not thorough master of
| these languages. The experience of
educators the world over, proves that
unless boy is thoroughly grounded in
his own language and in such branches
| as arithmetic, geometry, and algebra, 1t
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the intricacies of the ancient tongues
st. Michaels College aims to impart a
| thorough knowledge of such branches
as above and others, the study of which
develop the memory and expand to
their utmost degree, the thinking fac
| ulties Of the students. 1t is a fact that
pupils of this college, have gone to in
| stitutions of higher education, and out
stripped, in year or two, in linguistic
acquisitions, those who had many years
precedence of them in the study of lam
guages. The secret of this success was
| due to the fact that the early training
of these pupils at st. Michaels, had
prepared the mind for such acquisi-
tions, while the studies of those whom
they outstripped in the race for knowl-
edge, were not calculated to prepare
the mind for such difficult contingent
cies.
The present high status of the college
is entirely due to the solicitude and la
| bors of it's energetic, and far-seeing
president, Rev. Brother Botulph. Com
! ing to Santa Fe thirty odd years ago
! from New York, he was the first to pro-
mulgate, and make popular, the sys-
TENS of public and parochial instruc-
| ton that have since become wide
| spread. Long before there was a
| thought of territorial institution, or a
government free school, he had built
and superintended fourishing colleges
in Santa Fe, Mora and other centers of
population; while the parochal school
system, inaugurated by the brothers,
extended under his direction, through
out the length and breadth of New
Mexico. He is not only the pioneer but
the patriarch of our educational sys-
tens. He was teaching here in his
| quiet, unpretentious way, before many
of the presidents and principals of our
colleges and public schools were born,
| and it is the hope of all that his years
of usefulness in our midst, will be still
! further extended.
| A closing word as to the present con-
| ditions of the college. The past year
was one of the most successful in it's
history. The number of it's students
was greater than that of preceding
years, and its staff of teachers would do
credit to more pretentious institutions
| in the east. They were all men who
brought to their work the knowledge
| and experience acquired in the great
Catholic educational establishments Of
such cities as New York, Chicago, and
| st. Louis. knowledge and experience
! shared by the teachers of no other
school in the territory. Present indica-
tions all point to the fact, that the COM
! ing scholastic year will be still more
prosperous than the past one; up to
date many parents from different parts
have made arrangements for placing
their children in the college during the
coming year, fact which augurs well
for the future status of the institution.
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