Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-08-12
TO SURPASS
ALL RECORDS
Professor Lester Talks Of Bright
Prospects Of the College Of
Agriculture.
GIRLS NEW D0RMITORY
The one.Year Course in English and
Spanish Stenography Has Proven
Very Popular.

college of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts, is in the city on business connect
ed with the college. He will leave fol
the south this evening, going from
here to Belen. When seen last evening
Professor Lester spoke of the bright
prospects of the college for the COM
ing academic year which begins or
September 8. Last year we had ar
enrolment of 221, but this year We ex-
pect to surpass all previous records,
said Professor Lester. "This you can
understand when tell you that all the
available room in the girls dornitOry
has already been assigned and actual
work on the new addition, which will
just double the present capacity, will
be started this month and rushed to
completion. We expect to have the
new building ready for occupancy in
November We already have six large
buildings and a fine location for the
carrying on of our work. You may
know that in all our courses offered
we aim to give that practice and ac-
tual experience in any branch which
means so much to the student and
which is the essential to his success
Our two years course in practical me-
chanics has been exceedingly popular
the work of the course being intensely
practical.We receive liberal federal sup
port and that means much to us and
receives $4,000 annually from the gov
ernment and that sum enables us to
keep thoroughly up-to-date in securing
text books and adding to our equip
nent. Then the government expert
ment station is located at Mesilla
Park and you know the great work that
is being done toward the solving of
The irrigation question. There is at the
school pumping station and the six
inch we'll has flow of over thousand
gallons minute.
''The college offers four complete
courses of four years each in agricul-
ture, mechanic arts, general science and
domestic science, the last named being
for women Then we also have shorter
courses in agriculture and practical
mechanics, and very popular one
year course is that in English and
Spanish stenography. We are the pio-
neer school in this work and our sue
cess has been very marked. This
course has proved stepping-stone to
many you7g men and women and today
the demand is ten times greater than
the supply. There is no doubt that the
new possessions of our country will re-
suit in making Spanish of greatest i'm
DC rtance in the commercial world and
We have found that the course has
proved a most powerful help in the ad-
vancement of quite number of our
students. AS 1 have said we were the
originators of the course and it has
been esta blished with us for some sew
en- years. We worked out our own
plans and compiled our own text book.
That book is now in use in other
schools. It is an adaptation of the
Pitmanic system of stenography to the
Spanish.
''But what is most encouraging just
now is that everyone is working in har-
.nony and the college is in most -four
ishing condition. You know how it is
with all new institutions, and for some
years the. college of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts experienced some
stormy times Now, however, all
things seem to have common end in
view and all efforts are put forward to-
ward it's attainment. Harmony is the
keynote of the present condition Of the
college, both within and without the
institution, and the efforts alike Of our
Board of Regent, of the faculty and
of the local community seem all to be
centered in the highest and truest well
fare of the college. Our local people
are more loyal to the college than ever
before. In short, everybody has got
ten together.
t.President Luther Foster has done
much to bring about this favorable con-
dition of affairs and his administration
has been most successful. The college
is now In a flourishing condition; we
have mahy advantages that no other
institution in the southwest can offer.
we have library of 10000 volumes and
over s1vo,oo0 has been expended in the
equipment Of the school TOR practical
ork in the various departments. we
have fine location and every induce
ment. to the student is offered. There
is no tuition charge and only a nomf-
nal fee for matriculation is asked.
Then we furnish the student with board
and dormitory services at actual cost.
The college also furnishes the text
books, so you may readily see what a