University of New Mexico - Mirage Yearbook (Albuquerque, NM)

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Tihealof the University of ngeW mexico ; The'Sealwas designed by Dr. Edward Dundas MacQueen Gray Sometime between ,1'909-and 191 2 when he sewed as president of the University of New Mexico. The motto beneath the shield, Lux ' Hominum. Vita, was proposed by' Dr. Lynn B, Mitch'eH at; the re quest of UNM President David R, Boyd and was added t0 the $6211 about 1 g 14'. The metto in translation is Light is the Life of Man. The Great Seal Of'the State of New Mexico is superimpeSed upon a shield, The upper left and lower right quarterings :show the UnfiteCI States tshi'eild. The upper right quartering shews symbols from the I coatof aims of Spainrepresenting the provinces, of Spain as fellows: top right, Castile; top left, Leon; hlewe: right, Aragon; blowerr left, Navarre; rose in extreme lower left, Granada. The three heur de list in the coat of arms :repreSent France, uadded by Philip V as an ' escuteh'eon 0f pretense? , The IOWCI left'quartering has in the chief an Aztec sun in gold on .a blue held. In the base of the quartering are three Aztec bUZZEtde ml gold and black on a White held. The Shield is flanked by a Spanish conquistader sinister. and an American frontiersman dexter. The shield is surmoumed by a r911 , Of. red and White bunting, an. Open book, and a blazing torch.