Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-01-20
Rev. Gray Comes to
the Front With a
Proposal
UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN
The Establishment of Which
Will Draw the Lime Light
Upon New Mexico.

The plan to found a university for
women in the United States. in some
respects the greatest educational in
stitution in the United States, is tax
ing definite shape and is gaining
many jealous supporters for the idea,
when presented by Rev. Mcqueen
Gray is convincing and imposing in
its magnitude and Importance. The
Oxford and Cambridge idea of uni
Versity with no attempt at housing
and boarding students, but an institu-
tion clustered about by cottages and
foundations endowed by people of
wealth, underies the project Co-edu-
cation is not the brilliant success it
was anticipated and an institution Of
learning for women, of the pure uni
versity type, such as made the uni
versities of old at Padua, Salamanca
and other places famous and which
today attracts the students by the
thousands from all parts of the world
to Berlin, Paris, Goettingen, Marburg
and other great universities of the Old
World, is one of the coming necessi-
ties of this nation and will be sup
piled sooner or later. New MeXicos
magnificent climate is an inducement
but the locality Of the university will
have little influence upon it's fame,
which will lie in the greatness of it's
instructors and the fact that it will
be of the classic university type, for
the students will flock to the point
where the great minds impart instrnc-
tion. Munificent endowments will be
procured for this institution and New
Mexico will become like great light
upon high mountain on account of
the carrying out of this magnificent
project. The following is the bill as
drafted:
An Act to establish a University for
Women in the Territory of New
Be it enacted by the Legislative AS
sembly of the Territory of New
Mexico.
Section /. That whereas there
does not exist any university for the
exclusive instruction of women, and
whereas the need for such an institll-
tion is widely admitted there is here
by established in the Territory of New
Mexico university for women.
Sec. 2. That this university shall
be non-sectarian in character and that
! it's objects shall be to provide in.
struction of the best university type
| in literature, science and art, and also
/ in those branches of technology, the
industries, applied arts, and other de-
ipartments of economic effort for
which women are adapted, to women
! of sixteen years and upwards.
j Sec. 8. That this university shall
be purely a teaching, governing, and
examining body.
Sec. 4. That the Governor of the
Territory shall forthwith appoint for
| ty men, to be selected from the citi
zens of the Territory, and in such
manner that the principal cities and
towns and each county of the Terri
tory may be represented therein
and that the men thus appointed
shall, together with the Governor o.
the Territory, form the foundation
committee of the university and be
charged with the promotion and locat
ing of the university, and that al
vacancies occurring in the foundation
committee shall be filled by the gov
ernor of the Territory.
Sec. 5. That the Governor Of the
Territory shall forthwith appoint ;
President of the University, who ma,
hold office as such during the periot
of the promotion of the University
and who shall be charged with th'
duty of advancing the interests of th'
University; and that the Treasurer O
the Territory shall act as Treasure
of the University during the aforesaid
period of the promotion of the uni
versity.
Sec. 6. That the services of tn
foundation committee, the Presiden
and Treasurer of the University AM
other committees appointed during tn
period of the promotion of the Uni
versity shall be wholly gratuitous dur
ing said period.
Sec. Z. That said Foundation Con
mittee upon the concurrence of me
iority of it's members may cause sal
University to become body corpol
ate under and in pursuance of Set
tions 462 to 466 inclusive of the con
piled laws of this territory as compi
ed in the year 1897 and that said SET
! tion 462 be and is hereby amended b
inserting the word universities" a
ter the word of and preceding th