New Mexico State University - Swastika Yearbook (Las Cruces, NM)

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WITHIN THE PAST YEAR, or since the last Swastika was published, many things have taken place which have materially changed the appearance of the College grounds and the personnel of the Faculty. Soon after the passage of the Bond Issue which gave the College additional funds for the erection of new buildings, the Board of Regents began the work of making the best use of the money; and, as results show, most efficiently. Three buildings have been erected: the central portion of the Administration Building, which contams the library, assembly hall — also used for gymnasium purposes — the Domestic Science Department, and the Administration offices. The Board of Regents at a recent meeting named this building Hadley Hail, in honor of Professor Hiram Hadley. It is rightly named and rightly deserved, for away back in 1889 Professor Hadley could have been seen tramping around through the thick and thorny mesquite with axe in hand cutting his way through it to locate the boundaries of the present College Grounds. For several years (Thr (rnllprlp served as the first President: and but for a year or two only has he been separated from the College, and then only bodily and not m spirit. Ptlirr trip How the old Klondikers who first assembled in the small building around the one small table, and the later Klon- ' no iifii;ttl ' t dikers of the seven or eight tables and the many two-room houses, would be lost in the new and comfortable Boys ' Dormitory now standing a little to the rear and to the left of Science Hall. The Agricultural Building which gracefully stands west of the Engineering Building gives to that department a home of its own. One night they dreamed of such a home and on waking found the reality staring them in the face; the Agriculturalists are now in clover. With the recent moving of offices, libraries, with the tearing out of partitions and the moving of the Preps, up from below, the old Assembly Hall and its memories have vanished. About the middle of July, Dr. W. E. Garrison, but recently elected President of the College, took charge: and he has had the supervision of the final completion and acceptance of the new buildings, the removing of many of the old landmarks, and the erection of the new buildings made necessary. More about him and his work will appear elsewhere in this number. The Young Men ' s Christian Association Building which was started during last year was completed and made ready for occupancy by the opening of the College year. It has been the center of student social life, especially among the boys. The growth of the College has been steady and consistent. Although the total enrollment this year will not be so high, the al- tendancce is considered an increase over last year. The work offered in the lowest class in the Preparatory Department last year is not given now, the College having raised the entrance requi rement one year. This class usually had a registration of about fifty, which, if added to the present enrollment, would make the total somewhat ahead of any previous year. Throughout the Territory the College is becoming mere widely known and the work it is doing is more clearly understood and ap- preciated. In fact, the College at the present has a right to be called THE educational institution of New Mexico. The College work is gradually growing and expanding. The attention the Faculty is giving to secondary education is providing a place in the institution for the student who has only a few years for school, as well as for the student who wishes to get all the information a College of this kind can give along lines of study offered by Colleges of Agriculture and Mechanic arts.

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