Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-09-20

This Splendid Territorial Institute
Opened viii Large Attsadaacs.
sls ENROLMENT.
From Las Cruces Progress.

/ Ttpih LUIS NiuNtc IIOkTeSS.
IL has been 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 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 40
noon on Friday i5G students had duly
been enrolled and classified and large
number Of old students are yet to en-
ter II viii not be surprising IL the to-
ia! enrolment for this new year runs
close up To the 300 mark.
Good times aud prosperity" are not
the chief reasons for this great enroll
mcn;. More than anything else It 10
due To the fact that the college is get.
ting iAuch more closely In touch with
that class o. citizens OF New Mexico
who need 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 Inc 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
class VINO 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. II 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 all
OF them earnest and determined In
their ambition To fit tbemse, es as
trained mechanics, competent to fill
higher positions in life than they would
be able to take without the advantages
OF this short course which the college
offers. Indeed. Il becomes more APP
parent each year that the advantages
OF the college are rapidly being recog-
nized and seized by the native born
people who are citizens of our terri
tory and in this line alone the institu-
ton has large field for good before IT,
The extension OF the work In domes-
tic science heretofore provided and the
addition of thoroughly equipped de-
partment and "A well trained instructor
to teach the subjects of sewing, dress
making, and allied practical studies.
have made up woman's course in do
nestle science that Is both complete
and strong. The opportunities afford
ed to the young womca OF the territory
for training themselves to become
managers Of homes have never been
anything like that what they now are
in the college.
The new officers In the college for
the coming year are as follows
Prof. NJ l.. Hoblit. who has hereto
fore had charge of the correspondence
courses in spanish in the University of
Chicago. succeeds W. a. Sutherland,
who resigned In June To take posi-
ton with the government in Manila
as additional assistant in the depart.
ment of domestic science and In charge
of the work In sewing. etc, Miss Clara
Foster, completed full course in do
nestle science in the A. a. NJ 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
advantages; Miss Elizabeth Sinner,
who succeeds Mrs. l.. l.. Brown as as
slstant In the preparatory department,
and who has heretofore been connect.
ed with the Albuquerque public schools
and In which she has achieved a repu-
tation for careful and successful work
II. G. McLallen. who is graduate of
Cornell university, as assistant pro.
fessor In the department OF agricul.
ture; and Miss Pinkie Ford. who sue.
ceeds Miss Helen Macgregor as college
stenographer and assistant In the de-
partment of stenography.