The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-05-26

| nave been IN your city was some SIX
or Seven years ago., when | stopped
over for a couple of hours on my way
to Carlsbad where | was going to
hold a term of court. This was just
before my honored friend, Chief Jus
tiCe POPE. was appointed an Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of this
territory. The term of our which |
came into the valley to hold, lasted
tor something over two weeks N
during hat time | was in Carlsbad,
and | grew To like il and its people
very much, for net only did its tree
lined streets. and pretty ranches sit
Iated in its immediate neighborhoOd.
app al to me. but it's people We're kind
and h~ospitable. 81 that / very greatly
enjoyed my stay in hat pretty town.
During my soiourn there | made nan
warm and true friends WAC since /
first met them have shown their
friendship for me in many ways. and
On my part | n always esteemed it
an honor to be able to call them my
friends. 2
On my return to my Las Vegas
home. after completing the term of
our which | went to Eddy county to
hold. | stopped on here for some ~
hours. and after attending to some
court business took a drive about YOU
city and saw it and the country conti-
gious to it.
Roswell and its surroundings pleas
ed me then, but since that time il has
grown SO much that one would
scarcely recognize it as being the
same city Although there are some
spots in il which | still recall, and
which. rs l remember then, have not
changed or altered to any considerable
extent. One of the points of interest
which | visited during my brief stay
here was the New Mexico Military In
stitute. whose annual commencement
exercises are being held here today.
Six or eve years ago this school
was a credit not only to Chaves Coun-
ty. but to the territory as a whole.
With h intervening years Ii has i'm
proved and expanded greatly, and
there is every reason to believe that
1t viii continue TO thrive and increase
not only in h number Of it's students
but also in the quality and quantity
If the education which 1t gives to the
young men who attend II.
Do610 III Ih1S0AN9 mAo
general charge of this school have
been wise in the selection of the men
who they have from time 10 time Sc
lected as its principals. They have
shown that they are men of affairs
and know what they are about. They
have not followed the policy which
I have read was pursued by a body of
men who were chosen to erect the
buildings and organize a university
in N of the great nations of the
orient. / will give this story almost
n h. words / read it. The men di-
rected the erection of the necessary
buildings in which to conduct their
school, and when they were completed
they looked about for a faculty, so
that The youths Of their countr might
be properly instructed in languages,
arts and the sciences. They had no
ticed that Americans and Englishmen
were a superior class of people, and
that they seemed to know a good deal
SO they concluded that any men Sc
lected from these races would b com
pelent to teach. They accordingly
secured their seaports and selected
taeir professors from the sailors
whom they found. The results were
highly Interesting hut hardly satisfac-I
tory The professors did teach their
charges language, SO far as oaths were
concerned, but there were times when
the entire faculty were disabled for
days at a time. az a result of a too
prolonged investigation of tae physi-
cal qualities of spir:tus fermenti. The
university made no progress and the
officials In charge gradually arrived
nj the conclusion that all f~oreisners
could not teach The sailors were &C.
cordingfy dismissed and faculty
composed entirely Of missionaries
were selected to take their places The
result was nm enormous Improvement.
as languages We're taught and the IN
v~estigation or tae physical qualities ofl
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