Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-02-27
RUGBY OF
NEW MEXICO
Military Institute at Roswell Z
Boon to Boys Of the
Territory.
A PROBLEM SETTLED
This Excellent College Answers the
PerpIexsd Parents Query Of What
to Do With Growing Son.

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The Boy-the most perplexing prob
physically and mentally, that is the
question that puzzles the father and
the mother everywhere. New Mexico
has offered one successful solution to
the problem by establishing and main
tanning the New Mexico Military In
that financial limitations compel 1t to
refuse admission to more than 120
boys. 1t should accommodate 1900
boys and it would do the common
wealth power of good if every one of
it's 10000 boys could have several
whose motto, "a sane mind in a
healthy body" holds up the highest
ideal of education.
Military schools for boys are almost
as old as civilization but it is wonder
full how the idea has expanded of late
years. how New Mexico especially,
has built up successful military
institution of learning from a small,
inauspicious beginning. But the sue
cess lies in thu idea itself. The school
has made strong, we'll balanced, ener-
getic men out of material that at times
appeared, to say the least, unpromis-
ing Take a puny and backward boy
and make out of him strong, healthy,
sOundly educated man who can take
his own part in the world and you
have wrought great work, master
piece, second to no marble bust OF
Phidias or canvas by Rafael. And
that is precisely what the Military
School has done, and is doing. The
place of such school in any common
wealth need not be pointed out; 1t Is
self-evident that it should be the model
and inspiration for every public and
private school in the Territory
l. The Military Institute at Roswell is
positively successful in an admins
trative way. Comparisons are invid-
ious, but the fact is that the trustees
OF the Military Institute have accom-
plished more with a little than have
the trustees of all other Territorial in
stitutions. The appropriations given
| this school have been less, rather than
greater, than those given most Of the
others. But. by charging tuition, by
careful management, sufficient was
saved every year to pay for the con-
struction of building after building
until now the value of the real estate
alone is as much as the Territory
has ever expended upon the
school. The Institute has been
blessed, in addition, with an en-
ergetic faculty from its very beginn-
ing. It's present commandant Colonel
j. w. Wilson, is not only a man of
culture, a successful teacher, an in
spiration to the boys, but he is
thorough business man, good mana
ger, hustler Under him the school
is flourishing as it has never flourish
ed before.
The location of the school in the
rich Pecos Valley at the growing, mod
ern town of Roswell, is an item de-
cidedly in it's favor. The climate Is
salubrious, the sanitation good. the
surroundings pleasant The buildings
are well arranged upon a large cam
pus that crowns a plateau that looks
down upon the business part OF the
city. Scattered over this same plat
eau are the finest farms and some OF
the prettiest homes in New Mexico.
The elevation Is 3,700 feet and the
sun does business almost every day
in the year. There is only one
SUMMER spot in New Mexico and that
is Santa Fe. You can appreciate what
that means to a boy. 1t means out
door exercise the year around and
when such exercise Is under the train
ed supervision of a faculty Of seven
bright men who make the training OF
boys their business and their only
business. then it must spell Health"
with capital H for the pupils. Dur
ing the six years that the Institute
has existed there has not been a case
of serious illness among the students.
However, delicate students are not 80
licited and the candidate for admis-
sion must stand physical examina-
tion. The Territory Of New Mexico
maintains no sanitarium for consump-
tive boys and the parent who sends
his boy to the Military Institute Is
assured that his companions will not
be of the kind that will communicate
disease or frailty to him.
But not only from q physical stand
point is the student taken good care Of.
The course of study is thorough and
comprehensive although all unneces-
sary frills upon which 80 many schools
waste their time, are cut out. The
school Is especially strong in mathe-
matics, English and Spanish and the
students are given a thorough course
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