Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-04

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of those expenses which are necessary
but which may not be paid out of gov
eminent funds.
Your committee was greatly sur
prised to learn that the institution is
today receiving no more support from
the territory than when it was first
create. In the fourteen years, during
which the college has been in exist
ence, it has made steady and rapid
growth and this growth has naturally
demanded increased expenditure for
those things which car only be paid
from territorial funds. When the in
~stitution was first created il was at
tended by a mere handful of students
and was prosecuting very few lines of
work. 1t has grown from that day to
the present one until today its scope
and field of work is ten-fold greater
than in its early days. In spite of this
fact we find that the institution is
dlOuS WIFI ne Sdiit lloull
cient territorial support that was
granted it when it was first created
and which has never since been in
creased.
Buildings in Need Of Repairs.
AS a result, your committee found
the older buildings of the institution
in serious need of repair. The main
building of the college, erected when
the institution was first created. is in
bad condition, the woodwork requiring
to be painted, the plastering of the
walls cracked. and the ceilings in some
parts in very bad condition. The older
building of the mechanical engineering
department which was put up On in
sficient territorial support is now in a
condition that almost units 1t for prop
erly conducting the work of the de-
| partment. No criticism can he passed
on the management of the institution
for this state af affairs; the fault lies
entirely with the territory in not hav-
ing adequately supported the institu-
ton with funds sufficient to keep its
buildings in a satisfactory condition.
The greatest need of the college is a
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
buildings. 1t has reached the point
where the existing conditions can he
no longer overlooked by the territory
if it is going to make any pretense tC
even support it's territorial institutions
with those things hat are absolutely
essential. The preparatory depart
ment of the college is crowded into
basement, since no other part of an,
building is available for it. Over 1O'
young men and ome are packed int
l four small rooms in this basement tina
are absolutely unfit for school roon
purposes. They are improperly ventil
ated, badly lighted, and the rooms ar,
II less than nine feet high. For the tel
u ritory to allow in any of its institution
II such crowding and such conditions i
} little short of a disgrace, and yet Their
c is no other part of any building wher
Il this work can be carried o n The Spar
I ish department of the institution, i
{ which seventy-five students are dom
Il work, has no class room assigned t
y it and is temporarily doing its work i
u a laboratory that was never intende
for a class room. The departments c
agriculture and horticulture have n
4 home for the carrying on of their in
&c portant class work. The instructors
charge of these departments are con
&c PEELED to move from one room to al
= other, holding classes where they ca
II secure a room through the courtesy {
l some other department. The colleg
I is receiving, as has already been poin
Ut ed out, a large store of supplies for tn
81 equipping of its military departmeI
IL and there is literally not a room in an
III building of this institution where thes
IL supplies can be stored. 1t is the dut
Oh and should be considered the p~rivileg
III of the territory to provide ample a
hs commodations for the storing of tn
We equipment. The registrars offic
3 which is the business Office of this /
stitution, is so crowded that the Off,
Is work is seriously hampered and int
N fered with; and the n assembly ha
of the college has been divided up in
oil four class rooms, one of which is
N for the purpose.
OF The college library, which is n
lg the best in the southwest and f.
is which the territory has given practi
a ally nothing for equipment, has e a
n ed such proportion that the purcha
es of additional books will have to cea
if the territory does not provide prop
'e- accommodations for housing the.