Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-12-15
SUMMER
COURSE
President {. J. Vert, Of the New
Mexico Normal University
Would Establish One.
TO BENEFIT TEACHERS
Would Especially Extend Field Of lnstl-
tuition so as to Reach Country
School Masters.
A summer course for teachers.

A summer course for teachers.
Edmund j. Vert, Phi. D., president OF
the New Mexico Normal University at
Las Vegas, is making trip through
the counties in the northern part OF
the Territory of New Mexico, for the
purpose of getting better acquainted
with the county superintendents, the
boards of education, and the leading
teachers, to acquaint them with the
plans of the Normal University of Las
Vegas and for the purpose of ascer-
tanning their views on summer
course at the institution.
81 am doing this said President
Vert, under the conviction that there
is a large field in the Territory Of
New Mexico that has not been covered,
viz, the country schools and these in
the small towns. The New Mexico
Normal University is now doing suffi-
of the institution getting closer to the
masses of the teachers has appealed
to me very forcibly I am submitting
the following six questions to county
superintendent, members OF the var
ious boards of education, and the lead
ing teachers generally:
Proposition Submitted.
l. What do you think of the ad-
visibility of our organizing in the New
Mexico Normal University summer
course especially adapted to the needs
of teachers in country and small town
schools?
2. If such a course should be or
ganized it would begin June 6. How
many weeks do you think it should
continue?
8. What branches should be includ-
ed in such course? What subjects in
the several branches should receive
special emphasis? please be explicit
as we wish to meet the real needs of
the teachers.
| A. What prospect is there that there
are teachers Tor those who expect to
teach) in your locality or county who
would be likely to attend, provided
thorough course is offered? Qf you
can state the approximate number,
please do sO.)
give the names and addresses of teach
ers (or prospective teachers) who are
likely to be interested.
6. We desire to make the New
Mexico Normal University of the great
est possible service to the teachers in
the country and small town schools.
We shall esteem it favor if you will
give us the benefit of any suggestions
to this end you may have.
Il am gathering this information"
continued President Vert, "for the pur
pose of making a report to the board
of regents of the Normal University,
in hope that such summer course
may be established. l have met with
the greatest possible encouragement
at every hand, and there is a strong
probability if there are sufficient
funds, the course will be established.
Ii the course is established it will be
for two months and the most thor
ough work will be done. If it should
prove that there is demand for this
kind of work, the summer course
which will be commenced June 6,
1904, at the end of the school year,
will be continued during the year.
President Vert's Career.
President Vert has been identified
with educational work in Minnesota
and Wisconsin for eighteen years,
prior to assuming the helm at the New
Mexico Normal University last June.
The progress made during his incum-
bency has far exceeded anything ex-
pected by the board of regents of the
institution. The standard of the work
is being steadily raised, and the stu
dent body has been materially increas-
ed. The faculty today consists OF
twelve teachers under President Vet,
while he himself has one class day
on school management.