Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-12
QUARTERCENTURY
/. ANNIVERSARY TO
I. Be CELEBRATED
Commencement at State Col
Iege This Year to Be One of
Unusual Interest 10 Friends
of Institution,


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state College, N. NJ. May ii.--Ths
twcnty-fifth annual commencement
will be held at the New Mexico state
College, beginning on Sunday morn
ing, May 2S, with the haecaiaureat,
sermon and ending on the night OF
the 2S, with the commencement dance
The baccalaurcate address, on the
morning OF May 23, will be delivered
by the Rev. r. II. Mathes. pastor ol
Mesilla Park Presbyterian church
That will be followed in the evening
by Joint meeting OF the Young Mems
and Young Womens Christian asso'
Citations. and a speaker representing
both will give an address.
Monday and Tuesday of that week
will be taken up in the final evamina.
tons. However. on the evening OF
May 30, the annual graduation exer-
cises of the Preparatory department
will be held.
"Wednesday, at 10 a. M. will occur
the annual meeting of the college
board OF regents. In the afternoon
at two-thirty, the senior class will
hold their graduation exercises. In
the evening will occur a grand Jubilee
in the college gymnasium, in honor OF
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the
college This takes the place of the
regular alumni banquet, which this
year gave away for the jubilee.
Thursday. the 27th. will close the
scholastic year. At ten in the morn.
ing, the commencement exercises viii
be held, Rev. 4. l.. Lallance, of the
Albuquerque Methodist church, deliv.
ering main address. The class orator
will be Burton Fite. In the afternoon
meetings Of the Old Students associa.
ton and the alumni will be held. Fina
ball will occur at the gymnasium al
eight p. M, and will be given IN honor
OF the departing seniors.
The alumni and old students asso.
citation have arranged for a grand
jubilee TO be held in the college gym
nasium, on the evening of May 20, tt
take the place of the regular alumni
banquet.
An alumni old students, present
students, faculty members, and friends
Of the institution are urged to come
and to assist in making this gathering
one to be long remembered; for ii will
be the quarter centennial OF the state
College Of New Mexico.
An effort is being made to secure
Governor Mcdonald as speaker fol
the evening though as yet he has
given no definite information as tC
his being able to attend. Professor
Hiram Hadley, founder of the college
and for many years the acknowledged
educational leader of the state. will
appear on the program for a speech
and to a large extent the occasion
will be in honor of him.
Arrangements are being made &c
have some of the first years grad.
yates, the class OF 1896, take part II
the program and give the early his
tory of thes college as they saw 1t
Students who came at later period
will talk, and the present student vii
have a chance to tell why he is at.
tending the college,
1t is interesting to look back ovei
the twenty-five successful years tn,
college has had, and note the wonder.
full development. The organization
was effected in 1889, and the frs
years work began in 1890. The schoo
started with handful of students in
Las Cruces with Professor Hadley as
president and principal teaching staff
The Influence of the man at the head
of this school was too great for il tt
remain so. He secured an appropria.
ton from the federal government and
three years after II opened its door
the college, In name, was brought &c
what is now state College. Gradually
II grew until at the present time the
enrolment has reached the $50 mark
the faculty numbers 40, the campus
covers an area of over 100 acres, and
during the twenty-five Years, 1000 stu
dents have passed through its doors
100 of them having been graduated
The college is at present under a
very able corps of teachers. The or
ganlzation of the whole college is very
good. The teaching staff gives in
struction daily to $50 students, the ex-
pertinent station is proving more and
more indispensable to the farmers of
the state, and the extension depart.
ment is equal to any point of organi-
cation and effectiveness.
In view of these facts, the sons OF
the Institution fell 1t their duty to see
that the passing of the twenty-fifth
anniversary is heralded; for that rea-
son they have arranged for the quar-.
ter centennial celebration to be one
long remembered.