Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-11
PRESIDENT FOSTER
OF the Agricultural College, MesiIla
Park, Here Today.
SOME INTERESTING FACTS.

President Luther Foster, of the New
Mexico College of Agriculture and Me-
chanic Arts, a valuable territorial in
stitution, located in the Mesilla valley,
is in the city today and was a pleasant
caller at this office.
One of the most important steps that
has been taken by the board of regents
of the Agricultural college, at Mesilla
Park, in recent years, and n of vital
Importance to young ONE of the
territory, Is the Inauguration of a new
course in domestic science. This new
course is largely the outcome of Presi-
dent Fosters ideas in urging the i'm
p~ortance of the college offering more
than 1t heretofore has done in the way
of Industrial training for young wo-
men. The course Is a complete one,
and cover a period of four years be-
ing similar in this respect to the other
three college courses provided. The
work provided includes plain, fancy
and invalid cooking, canning and pre-
serving. home nursing and household
management, the science of nutrition.
sewing, dressmaking, fancy work. etc.
The, work of the course is intended to
be both theoretical and practical, in
cooperating enough of each to give a
well rounded training and culture to
the young women pursuing 1t. 1t is in
tended to train them to become skill.
full and competent housekeepers.
President Fosters brief connection
with the college has been, therefore,
already productive of an enlarged field
of operations for the institution. He
became connected with the institution
for the first time last December. being
elected by the board of regents at it's
meeting held on November 81. 1901. At
the recent meeting of the board. he
was reelected for the ensuing year.
President Fosters life and record
have beer in continual preparation for
his present work. Practically his whole
lifetime has been devoted to the cause
OF education, in it's connection with
such application Of educational theo-
ries as are found in the work of an
agricultural college. Born AND raised
on an Iowa farm, his earlier years
were spent in teaching in the public
schools OF that state. He is a grad.
uate of the Iowa Agricultural college.
an institution which is acknowledged
leader in its field of work among the
Agricultural colleges of the country.
For a lumber of years he was city SUI
p~erintendent of schools, and in 1885 he
entered upon the field of work he has
since been in, that of agricultural col.
leges n experiment stations. He was
successfully eight years professor of
agriculture in the South Dakota Agri.
cultural college, part of which time he
was also director of the experiment
station; acting president of the Mon.
tana Agricultural college, with which
institution he was connected for three
years; professor Of agriculture and 81.
rector of the experiment station of the
Utah Agricultural college from 1896 to
1900; and for one year professor of ag-
riculture in the University of Wyo-
ming. From the latter position he was
called last autumn to accept the presi-
dency of the College at Mesilla Park.
President Fosters work has always
been along those lines In which he has
secured and held the interest of the
educators and the farmers of the west.
He may be expected rapidly to bring
the work Of the Mesilla Park college
into touch with the people of New
Mexico. and to bring to the attention
of the young people especially, the
manifold advantages of an industrial
training in such an institution as the
Agricultural college.
President Foster has a family of four
daughters. two of whom are at present
students in the Mesilla Park college,
and one of whom will graduate with
the senior class of the present year.
His pleasant home in Las Cruces is
made a place where ali students and
friends of the college are delightfully."-
welcomed and entertained.
Today and tomorrow he will he in
the hands of the local instructors in
education, and will visit the university
and other institutions of learning of
the city. He will return south tomor-
row night.