Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-06-15
ROSWELL SCHOOL
AGAIN PLACED ON
ROLL OF HONOR
For Eighth Consecutive Year
New Mexico Military Insti-
tute Designated as One Of
Leading Ten in u. S.
ESPECIAL eoaassrososres re sesn@a Iouns..

fsrsetst cosassFospENck TO sosntHa JOURNAL
Roswell, n, NJ, June lf.--Ifor the
eighth consecutive year the New Mex.
leo Military institute has been desig-
mated by the United States war depart.
ment as one of the first ten military
schools IN point Of efficiency in the
entire country This information was
conveyed to Superintendent j. w
Wilson in a telegram recently re-
ceived from Adjutant General Mccain,
and while not unexpected Is none the
less gratifying TO the faculty, students
and friends of the school as well as to
lall citizens who have a pride IN New
Mexico institutions.
The first year that the Roswell
school was placed on the "distin-
gulshed" list was in 1902 when Gov
ernor George Curry was in the execu-
tive chair at Santa Fe. and the mes
sage received by Governor Curry that
year from the war department giving
the news was received with the great
est satisfaction and pride by the
people of the state, especially In view
of the fact that the distinction was
won In competition with more than a
hundred military schools In different
parts of the United States, many of
them supported by liberal appropria-
lions and endowments far in excess of
the amount available for the New
Mexico school.
Standard Maintained.
The high standard attained by thu
institute in 1903 has never been low
cred. and each succeeding yea, has
seen the Roswell institution again des-
ignated as one of the ten best in the
TTnfind h,u
n growth in the attendance at the
school that has given It an established
place as one of the states leading edu-
cational Institutions and has attracted
"a large number of students from dis
tant states. 1t is not too much TO say
that the New Mexico Military Institute
Is one of the best advertisements that
New Mexico ever had.
What has done fully as much to-
wards maintaining the excellent repu-
tation of the institute as it's place of
honor on the distinguished list has
been the invariably excellent records
of It's graduates upon entering the
larger field of activity after leaving
school. The training received by an
ambitious boy at this institution liz
such as to fit him for any calling re-
quiring manliness and a wcll-rounded
and the physical and moral
discipline which Is part Of the routine
of the school i,s In itself an equipment
for the duties OF life that Is obtaina-
Bile in few institutions of learning in
the United States.
The New Mexico Military institute
IS no place for the mollycoddlo or the
Miss Nancy. The basic priciple Of the
school is to inculcate manliness OF the
highest typc-not the roughness that
too often masquorades under that
name, but the self-reliant vigorous
qualities that so TO make for whole !
some American citizenship It's sys- (
tenn OF management is In the truest /
sense democratic. Every cadet enters [
the institution as the equal Of every |
other, and differences that may arise |
thereafter are of his own making in I
short individual merit Is the only !
form of aristocracy that Is recognized t
Influence counts for nothing ability /
md enterprise for everything.
The need of military training cf the |
ioung men Of the country, Irrespective |!
IF the likelihood OF the country being
involved in war. has never been 80
generally recognized in the United |
states as at the present time The New
Mexico Military Institute is doing for
he country what the nation Is unable
o do--training men and fitting them
or business careers and at the same
ime turning out men who. in case war
houid come. will be equipped 10 take
Command az officers on q moments |;
notice. The ideal condition--pre-
'aredness without compulsion--is the |,
lin when is being achieved by this
Institution !,