El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-20
LAS CRUCES AND
MESILLA VALLEY
CAMPAIGN FOR
4. { NJ. COLLEGE
Enrolment at Mesilla Park
This Year Expected to
Reach Limit.

Agricultural college, n. NJ. June 20
Reports from the registrars office OF
the New Mexico Agricultural college
indicate that the most successful yeaI
| of the institutions history, in point OF
/ attendance, is at hand. Never before
have inquiries from prospective. patrons
about the college and applications for
admission been received as early and in
| such numbers as at the present time,
| declared the assistant registrar, j. A.
Anderson. Judging from this" he fur
| Their stated, Il should say that we are
J assured of a 20 percent increase in the
number of students" At this rate, presi-
dent Garrison's plan for the 1923 club,
which means a sufficient number Of
| students to fill the 523 seats in Had
| ley assembly hall, are rapidly material
izing Efforts are behind the attain
ment, however, for at the present time
Dr. Garrison is out in the territory, and
has been out off and on since early
in May, working in the interest Of the
college. The points being visited in
his present extended trip include Ala
mogordo, Tularosa, Santa Fe, AIbu-
QUerqque. including a few more towns
in that part of the territory; then he
will visit Belen, and towns in the Pecos
valley, where we find him at present
He spoke at Portales on last Thursday.
On the 21st and 22nd he will be back at
college, but on the following day will
leave again, going to Silver City, where
he will speak on June "a. These trips
are part and certainly the most i'm
portant part of the big advertising
campaign of the college. Every import
ant point of New Mexico has been or
will be visited by the president, where
he addresses meetings of all kinds par
ticularly educational, and does per
sonal work
Other representatives of the college,
heads of departments and assistants,
will be scattered about the territory
during the first half of August. J. A
Anderson, assistant registrar and for
mer football shark, and s. R Mitchell,
assistant professor of chemistry and
general manager Of the athletic asso-
citation, plan a few weeks camping In
the White mountains, where they viii
go prepared to gather in a few huskies
who should be in school and on the
football team.
In the meantime literature has its
share in the advertising propaganda
The sending out of illustrated booklets,
numbering 1000 TO every postoffice In
the territory was the first step. Fol-
lowing this there were issued a thou
sand artistic posters which reached ey-
cry city, town, village and burg in New
Mexico. The catalog was rushed
through to an early completion and
100 names were added to the regular
mailing list They are all out a lit
tie later in the summer more posters
will be sent to ell the old students and
last multi graph folder to be printed
in the commercial department of the
college is to be sent out
The college has more to offer as in
ducements to the students than it ever
had before IN the way of more and bet
ter courses. a larger and more efficient
teaching force, extended laboratories
and equipment, improved grounds, and
last but first in the hearts of the stu
dents, a professional athletic coach or
nhySiciaI director