Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-07-12
The new MEXICO
NORMAL UNIVERSITY
1t is Among the Leading Educational In
stitutions of the Southwest and is
Drawing Pupils from Every Part
of the United States.
AN EMINENT FACULTY AND A
COMPREHENSIVE COURSE OF STUDY

From the press OF the New Mexican
Printing Company was issued this week
the well printed and comprehensive
catalogue of the Normal University of
New Mexico. A perusal of it's 70 pages
is interesting and instructive and would
to many prove a revelation as to the
thoroughness and the high standing of
the Normal University among the cdu-
| cational institutions of the southwest
The greatest need of any common!
wealth, and Of New Mexico especially
is we'll trained teachers for the public
schools. and this demand the Normal
UniversitMis IN position to supply. 1t
owes it's existence to the wisdom of the
legislature of 1893 and in part to the
energy and liberality OF the citizens
OF Las Vegas who s1Yanced $19,7oO
toward the building of 6he school,
which sum was repaid in due sea-
son by the territory. The main
building is situated on an eminence in
the center of the city of Las Vegas, easy
of access from all directions and sur
rounded by perfect sanitary conditions.
1t is built of sandstone in the Roman
esque style of architecture and is as
beautiful school building as is to be
found in the southwest.
1t was less than four years ago that
the school was opened with ninety-two
students enrolled. By direction of the
33d legislative assembly a manual train
ing school and kindergarten training
school were established in connection
New Mexico legislatures have been and
ahead of them. The University is main
tanned by half mill tax upon all tax
able property in New Mexico, by an in
come derived from the sale of $4,000
acres of land granted it by the United
States and by occasional special legisla-
tive appropriations.
The departments that make up the
Normal University are: The normal
school with its accessory schools which
make up the training department, viz,
the model schools, comprising all grades
from kindergarten to high school in
elusive and the practice school. The
academic school. The manual training
school. The graduate school. 1t is be-
lieved that this plan of organization
embodies the highest ideal of the normal
school as Il training school for teachers
and at the same time serves the purpose
of bringing the advantages of a good
general education in elementary, Sec
ondary and higher grades within the
reach of every young person in New
Mexico who is mentally and morally
qualified to receive it,
THE MISSION OF THE SCHOOL.
The mission of the normal school is
threefold: 10 educate teachers for the
public school service; to develop model
system of public school education for
the guidance of the schools of the
relations which should exist between the
home and the school. The ideal train
ing for the teacher is the ideal training
for the parent No other course is such
a direct and efficient preparation for
home making as the normal course. The
work of the normal course is largely
professional. The aim is to give pro-
fessional training to students who pos
sess the requisite natural qualifications
for the making of teachers
Inc mOuel ScnOOl cOlHpTlSeS kInuef-
garten, primary and secondary grades. 1t
is complete public school from kinder
garten to high school inclusive. 1t is
very important part OF the normal
school. The aim is to make the model
school an Institution which may become
the pattern for the public schools of the
territory 10 that end only the best of
training teachers are placed in charge.
The pupils of the model school are un-
der the direction of expert teachers from
the beginning of their work in the
kindergarten to the end in the high
school. The school rooms are models of
cleanliness and every means known to
pedagogic science is used to promote the
health comfort. happiness and morals
of the pupils. The rooms are made
beautiful and homelike.
The purpose OF the academic school is
two fold. To develop a model system OF
public schools for the guidance of the
schools of the state, the academic de-
partment serving as model high school
in the development of the model school
system. The academic school affords
the necessary opportunity for general
education which very many young peo-
Pile of New Mexico need and are unable
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