Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-09-11
VERY SATISFACTORY
CONDITION
The New Mexico College of Agriculture
: and Mechanic Arts Opened Its Thir-
teenth Year With Exceptionally
Bright Prospects.
AIM OF The INSTITUTION
IsA PRACTICAL TRAINING

| MesiIla Park, Sept. 10.
The New Mexico College OF Agrlcul
ture and Mechanic Arts has opened 1T:
18th year under more satisfactory con
ditions than in any previous year. A
the close of business on the second day
| 109 students had been enrolled, which Is
about 40 per cent greater than any veal
| in the history of the college for the
same time. Today considerable num-
ber of new students have entered ant
the outlook for total enrolment this
wear of over 25O students is practically
, assured.
Several causes are responsible 1ol
this increase in enrolment. Perhaps
the most important of all is the fact
that the college is drawing a largely
increased and increasing number OF
voung men and young women who are
bent upon securing the benefits of an
intensely practical education. The IN
dustrial features of the institution are
becoming much more widely known
than ever before. AS an illustration OF
this fact, the short two years course IN
practical mechanics which has been
brought to the attention of the young
men of the territory during the past
summer. has already attracted an en-
rollment of nearly 20 students. These
are mostly young men who would go 10
school or college for no other purpose
than TO obtain the training which this
course affords, namely, the practlcal
use of tools and training which Will
fit them to become mechanics capable
of earning a good living The majori-
ty of these young men are natives or
New Mexico, which emphasizes the fact
that the college at Mesilla Park is
reaching the citizens of the territory
and providing them with a practical
education in a way that is being appre-
ciated to rapidly growing extent.
Another course that is proving ex-
ceedingly popular this year is the new
course for women which the college Of
fers in domestic science. To the work
in cooking and allied branches hereto
fore provided, has been added for this
year a complete course in sewing, and
the sewing department has been well
equipped by the purchase of furniture,
sewing machines, and other equipment.
Never before have such advantages
been offered in this territory
to the young women for practical work
in those branches that will prepare
them to manage the affairs of the
home.
been offered in this territory to the
young women of New Mexico for prac-
tical work in those branches that will
prepare them to manage the affairs of
the home.
The new teachers employed in the in
stitution this year are as follows TO
succeed, as professor of Spanish, w. A.
who resigned in June to
take position with the government in
Manila, Professor M. L. Hoblit, who
has heretofore had charge of the cor
courses in Spanish at the
University of Chicago; as additional
assistant in the department of domestic
science and in charge of the work in
sewing, etc, Miss Clara Foster, who
full course in domestic
science in the Agricultural College of
Utah, taking post graduate course
therein and teaching in the department
also; in charge of music, Miss Mary
Waters, who has just completed eight
years study of music in the best Ger
man methods and under very superior
and Miss Elizabeth Shim-
er, who succeeds Mrs. l.. L. Brown as
assistant in the preparatory depart
ment, and who has heretofore been
connected with the Albuquerque public
in which she has achieved a
reputation for careful and successful
work.
All department of the college have
received much additional equipment
during the summer. -Four new build
lngs have been erected in connection
with the boys club house, additional
In beingi En1T EFT e ETAOI ETAA
buildings erected a year ago still being
to accommodate the in
creased attendance of young men stu
dents.
The stenography department of the
college continues to draw its usual at
tendance of students, its work being in
line with the policy Of the institution
to make all its courses practical