Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-03-07


liberal appropriation by the territory !
for its necessary and increasing cur. !
rent expenses and for the erection OF
new buildings.
Additional Buildings
Absolutely Necessary
The attendance is so large and the
scope of work has so increased. that
the college can no longer properly
carry on it's work without additional
Luildings. II has reached the point
where the existing conditions can he
no longer overlooked by the territory
| IL II Is going to make any pretense to
even support its territorial institutions
with those things that are absolutely
| essential The preparatory depart
mcnt of the college Is crowded into a
/ basement. since no ether part OF any
! building is available for II. over 100
young men and women are packed into
! four small rooms in this basement that
are absolutely unfit for school room
purposes. They are improperly ventil
ated. badly lighted, and the rooms are
lees than nine feet high For the ter
ritory to allow in any of its institutions
such crowding and such conditions is
little short OF disgrace. and yet there
Is no other part of any building where
this work can be carried on. The Span
ish department of the institution, in
which seventy-iive students are doing
work. has no class room assigned to
IL and Is temporarily doing its work in
! l..l.. Lnt Lat Il cd
for class room. The departments of
agriculture and horticulture have no
home for the carrying on of their i'm
portant class work. The instructors in
charge of these departments are com
PEELED to move from one room to an
other. holding classes where they can
secure a room through the courtesy of
some other department. The college
Is receiving, as has already been point
ed out, large store of supplies for the
equipping of It's military department
am. there is literally not a room In any
building of this institution where these
supplies can be stored. II is the duty,
and should be considered the privilege,
of the territory to provide ample &C.
|
equipment. The registrars Office,
which is the business Office of this in
stitutlon is SO crowded that the Office
work Is seriously hampered and inter
fered with: and the one assembly hall
of the college has been divided up into
four class rooms, none of which is fit
for the purpose.
n uh 10 nf
! the best In the southwest and for
which the territory has given practic-
1 ally nothing for equipment has reach.
= ed such proportion that the purchase
of additional books will have to cease
Z II the territory does not provide proper
: accommodations for housing them
+ The library, under the existing condi-
lions, has been as we'll classified and
D arranged as possible, but the room
q Ehich II Is in must he used for study
= purposes and Is so crowded that the
work Of the library cannot much longer
j he properly conducted in its present
quarters. Large numbers OF books ant
I" valuable pamphlets that should b,
made available for the work of the
G goods boxes and stored away because
l. there are no rooms In which they cal
l. be properly shelved Books are piled
) up on shelves not suited for the pur
u pose and the work OF the library II
q being seriously hampered through III
Y cramped condition.
p In the mechanical engineering de
:. | mn ~ mani Is room, ,.yhfnh ,uao daui an
J. ed TO be the foundry for the depart
! ment which has never been used TO
J. that purpose. since from lack of suita
" BILE accommodations, Il has had to b,
" used as store room. Although equip
4 ment for the fitting up of foundr.
u has been purchased With government
H. funds, yet this equipment has neve
been made available through the lacl
D. Of the territory to provide accommoda
e tions for its use.
e insufficient Dormitory
!. Accommodation
The girls dormitory of the colleg
. is crowded to OVERLOOKING three stud
eats being crowded into the sam
room. II has been compelled to re
fuse admission to a number OF tn
young women of our territory VIII
:. have applied within the past fe,
months for admission and who hav
% consequently been turned away. Their
!, is great need of a boys dormitory, tn
,u young mon coming from a distanc
=, =. now attending the institution bein
"A crowded into small shacks, or woodc
- buildings, that have been put up &
:, the absence OF insufficient territoria
J. appropriations for buildings. The fac
=, that 1877 students OF the past year
enrolment come from outside the v
:, cinity of the college shows the cryin
- need for greater dormitory accommC
dations.
ia An Imperative Duty.
n. II therefore becomes the duty OF tn
as present legislature to see that the M
ID satisfactory condition of things at tn
n. Meslla Park college shall no longe
continue. The welfare, not only OF th