Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-09-18
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
This Splendid Territorial InstItutio \
Opened With Large Attendance.
Bis ENROLMENT.

from Las cruces Progress.
1t has been a busy week at the col
lege. Either students are entering a
great deal more promptly than ever
before or else this years enrolment Is
going to be a record breaker OF no
small kind. At the close of business
on the third day the total enrolment
listed in the Office of the registrar was
greater than the enrolment in the first
ten days of any previous year. UP to
noon on Friday 156 students had duly
been enrolled and classified and a large
number of old students are yet to en-
ter. 1t will not be surprising If the to-
tai enrolment for this new year runs
close up to the 300 mark.
Good times and prosperity" are not
the chief reasons for this great enroll
ment. More than anything else it Is
due to the fact hat the college is get
ting much more closely in touch with
that class of citizens of New Mexico
who need a practical and industrial ed
ucation, and in this respect the college
Is fulfilling its mission better than ever
before. This is shown by the heavy
enrolment in those courses offered by
the college which are Of the above
character. The stenography depart
ment, as in recent years, has attracted
a large number of young men and
young women both from this territory
and outside states as well as Mexico;
and the new two years course estab-
lished last year in practical mechanics
has enrolled already about twenty
students. These young men and young
women taking these courses constitute
a class who otherwise would not come
to the college and who are bent on
fitting themselves in as short a time as
possible to fill positions as wage earn
ers in respectable and lucrative call
ings. 1t is especially significant to no
tice this year the heavy enrolment OF
young Mexicans in the practical me
: chanics course. These young men
while in some cases not having re
, ceived as good educational advantages
!, in the past as might be desired, are al
: of them earnest and determined il
| their ambition to fit themselves al
: trained mechanics, competent to fill
higher positions in life than they woult
5 be able to take without the advantages
r of this short course which the college
offers. Indeed, it becomes more ap
parent each year that the advantage
a of the college are rapidly being recog
nized and seized by the native borl
people who are citizens of u terri
S tory and in this line alone the institu
+ ton has a large field for good before il
The extension of the work in domes
tic science heretofore provided and tn
+ addition of a thoroughly equipped dc
partment and a well trained instructo
to teach the subjects of sewing, dress
making, and allied practical studies
6 have made up a woman's course in dc
S nestle science hat is both complet
and strong. The opportunities afford
" ed to the young women of the territor
n for training themselves to becom
n managers of homes have never bee
O anything like that what they now ar
It in the college.
l.. The new officers in the college fo
the coming year are as follows:
Prof. NJ. l.. Hoblit, who ha hereto
fore had charge of the correspondent
courses in spanish in the University
Chicago, succeeds w. A. Sutherland
who resigned in June TO take a pos
ton with the government in Manila
Y as additional assistant in the depar
y, ment of domestic science n in chars
,e of the work in sewing, etc, Miss Clan
T. Foster, completed a full course in d
I'd nestle science in the A. & M. colleg
of Utah, taking a post graduate cours
therein and teaching in the departmel
also; in charge of music Miss Maj
Waters, who has just completed eigl
years study of music in the best &c