Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-02
PRESENT PROSPERITY
WILL CONTINUE
THROUGHOUT 1920
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1t may be a real profession the people
who are to teach must be trained. The
outlook for added training for teach
erS is good as we start the new year.
The New Mexico state normal school
is ready and expects to play it's part
In giving this added training which
the state will undoubtedly demand of
its teachers. AS the new year opens
we extend to the teachers of the state
and to the friends of education,
wherever they may be, our greetings
and best wishes.
CDR, David s. Hill. President of the
State Univcrsity.)
During the summer of 1919 prac-
ttcally a new board of regents took
charge of the state university. with
Nathan Jaffa of Roswell as president.
and Dr. j. A. Reidy of Albuquerque
as secretary treasurer. AT this writ
Ing the remaining members of the
board are Messrs. A. A. Sedillo and
Nestor Montoya of Albuquerque, and
w. A. Gortner of Las Vegas The new
board called to the presidency David
); HUI, q professor in the University
of Illinois.
To make of the institution one serv-
hg the whole state Of New Mexico to
elevate its standards beyond useless
competition with preparatory schools.
TO introduce efficiency in its business
affairs, to enlarge and improve the
Faculty and to increase salaries to the
level of living wage, to build up stu
dent no: al- ana to increase the com
fort AMI hs3lth of students. to i'm
prove ard Il enlarge the inadequate
Ohysleal nGt1t and to work in more
effective articulation and co-opera-
ticn with all other educational insti-
tutions of the state-all these are aims
that are under accomplishment At
the beginning of the year much re-
Anains to be done, and there is no oc-
casion for empty boasting, neverthe-
less the atmosphere at the university
is full of hope and energy.
One of the most encouraging signs
today is that citizens in Albuquerque
and throughout the state are show
ing more and more realization of
the essential value of a state univer-
sity as the climax of a well co-ordi-
mated system of public education
which is abundantly proven by the
experience of other states of the
union. There is in this state not one
worthy institution of learning that is
not deserving Of greater financial and
moral support but what we need now
is more rigid definition of functions
as between preparatory schools, nor
NAL schools, the College of Agricul-
ture and Mechanic Arts-a valuable
factor for the welfare of the state. and
the state university The experience
of other states in the development Of
public education should be valuable
to us in working out this problem in
a spirit of cooperation. Our public
schools and higher institutions are
not the property of politicians or of
boards, or of presidents or of facul-
ties. or of students. They belong to
the whole people, and We are realizing
that our schools must be administered
as sacred trust at the hands of
boards and officers into whose tenn
porary care the institutions have been
placed The few persons who remain
in the attitude that our higher insti-
tutions are to be regarded as legiti-
mate prey for incompetent job-seek
ers, political spoils. or commercial eX-
ploitation must be pushed aside, if
New Mexico is to achieve the poten-
tial greatness now inviting us to re-
newed effort in the direction of higher
ideals in commerce, in legitimate poll
tics, in craftsmanship and in the
physical and moral elevation of all OF
our people and of the children of to-
morrow
Building upon the substantial
foundations laid by predecessors and
tearing down so far as possible the
results of any mistakes of the past
the present administration of the uni.
versity has made some notable prog
ress during the past six months. Bus
mess methods in financing the insti-
tuition upon its inadequate state ap-
propriations are being introduced. AL
financial transactions are centralized
in the office of the financial secretary
Miss Parsons The physical plant un.
der the supervision of Business Di.
rector williams is being renovated
and improved, including the dining
hall under the direction of Mrs
Walter Simpson of the department OF
home economics. The internal organ
ization has been revised with Dean L
B. Mitchell as dean of the college o.
arts and sciences. Acting Dean Coah
ran as dean of, the college of engi
neering, and Dean John d. Clark II
charge of the graduate school, which
is making beginning in the matter o
advance work for graduate students
The new bureau of hygiene main
tanned In cooperation with fedora
authorities at washington is under tn,
direction of Professor Weese, who in
cludes in his staff Doctors Twitchel
and Frisbie and Eller of Albuquerqut
and Edna Mosher. Phi. D. a graduate
of Cornell and of Illinois OF grea
potential value especially to the poo
of the state will be the new stat,
health laboratory. to be opened with
in few days at the university in CO
operation with the state department
of health of Santa Fe.
New Faculty Members.
In addition to DR.. Mosher and those