chemistry. Frank W. Brady, B. M. E., Purdue University, 1888: M. E., ibid., 1894: professor of mechanical engineering and superintendent of buildings. Hiram Hadley, A. M., Earlham College, 1885: professor of history and philosophy. Elmer O. Wooton. B. S., Earlham College, 1889; A. M., ibid., 1896: professor of biology and in charge of geology and physics. Frederick F. Barker, LL. B., Cambridge University (England), 1891; p ofessor of rhetoric and literature. John Dabney Tinsley, B. S.. New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 1899: professor of soil physics. Alice Horning, B. S.. Agricultural College of Oregon, 1882; professor of domestic economy. dean of women, and matron of the women's hall. John J. Vernon. B. S. Agr., Iowa State College. 1897; professor of agriculture and horticulture and superintendent of grounds. Raleigh Frederick Hare, B. S., Alabaina Polytechnic Institute, 1892; M.S.. ibid.. 1893; assistant professor of chemistry. Fabian Garcia. B. S., New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 1894: assistant professor of horticulture. Charles Mills; assistant professor of mechanical engineering. D. M. Richards, A. B., Oberlin College: principal of the preparatory department. William Alexander Sutherland, B. S.. New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 1898; instructor in Spanish and Latin. Geraldine Combs. assistant in the preparatory department. Helen Mar Macgregor, assistant in the stenography department and college stenographer. Archie Bruce Sage, B. S., New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 1900: assistant in mechanical engineering department. Charlotte A. Baker, librarian and assistant in English. Lavinia Lea Brown, assistant in preparatory department. Fannie Elizabeth Blakesley, B. L., Washburn College, 1895; assistant in the preparatory department. The board of regents as at present constituted is as follows: L. Bradford Prince, LL. D., president. Santa Fe, N. Mex.: P. H. Curran, secretary and treasurer, Las Cruces. N. Mex.: Granville A. Richardson Roswell, N. Mex.; A. A. Jones, Las Vegas, N. Mex.: H. B. Holt, Las Cruces, N. Mex. Advisory members: Hon. Miguel A. Otero. governor of New Mexico, Santa Fe, N. Mex.: Hon. J. Francis Chavez, superintendent of public instruction, Santa Fe, N. Mex. The demands of this wonderfully active and practical age are so numerous and varied that the whole educational facilities of the world are taxed to their full limit of ability in attempting to partially meet the demands. There is scarcely a college or university of any kind that does not feel its poverty and is not asking for greater revenues. This is equally true of Harvard, with its annual revenue of more than $1,000,000, and the small college, with its few thousands. It is the mission of the college to seek for and occupy new fieids for the advancement of the development of the human race. To do this requires ever-increasing revenues. Such has been the experience of all progressive educational institutions. It will be the experience of the college of agriculture and mechanic arts. Each succeeding year will call for more revenue to meet new demands, and this is just as it should be. The past year, in other parts of our country, has witnessed most wonderful public and private benefactions for educational institutions, and this gives us faith that as New Mexico grows her educational enterprises will correspondingly grow. Respectfully submitted. Hon. M. A. OTERO, FRANCIS E. LESTER, Executive Officer in Charge. Governor of New Mexico. NEW MEXICO MILITARY INSTITUTE. The Territorial school of arms, the New Mexico Military Institute, is located at Roswell, N. Mex.. and although it has only been open to students for three sessions, it is one of the most flourishing institutions of its kind in the entire Southwest. The New Mexico Military Institute opened its doors for the first time for the reception of students in September. 1898, and from the very first it has been filled to its utmost capacity. At the opening the buildings consisted of a threestory barracks building with a basement. In this basement were located the kitchen, dining room, armory, bathrooms, and closets: on the first floor were the four class rooms, and in the two upper stories 30 bedrooms, each room furnished for two cadets. During the first session (1898-99) a 10-room frame cottage was built and paid for out of the school earnings. Both day and boarding students were admitted and the enrollment was 105, 60 of whom were boarders from all parts of New Mexico. It was thoroughly demon strated the first year, however, that the school could not be made a success as a military school so long as the regents admitted day students, the boarders doing so much more work and advancing so much more rapidly in their classes than the day pupils who boarded at home and attended classes at the institute. They therefore determined to admit as cadets only those who enter as regular boarders, living in barracks and subject to regular garrison duty. It is the object of the regents to make the school a thoroughly military training school where boys and young men are furnished military training and instruction under a corps of officers selected from the best military schools and universities of the North and East. During the session of 1899-1900, another frame cottage was added to the school, and in the summer of 1900 a large gymnasium building was erected. Owing to the pressure for quarters, it was found necessary to partition this off into bedrooms and use it for cadet sleeping apartments. There were enrolled during the past session (1900-1901) 103 cadets, all of whom were healthy young men, averaging about eighteen years of age. They were from every county in the Territory, and no le s than six different States were represented. For the purpose of discipline and practical military instruction, the corps of cadets is divided into four companies, forming a battalion, and a staff. The commandant of cadets is charged with the command of the battalion, and is responsible for the discipline and for the theoretical and practical instruction of the corps. He is assisted in the matters of internal discipline by the officers of the institute in general and by the officers of the day. All cadet officers serve as officers of the day. The cadet officers are chosen from those cadets who have been most exemplary in conduct, most soldierly in bearing, and also most diligent in their academic work. This opportunity for promotion creates that esprit du corps and general sentiment which condemns at once any act on the part of one of its members calculated to reflect discredit upon the command at large. Feeling that he has been placed upon his honor, and that he has the confidence and support of the officers of the institute to aid him in the proper discharge of the duties of his position, a cadet officer becomes an efficient aid in the maintenance of discipline. It also causes the cadet to feel the responsibility of his position and makes him self-reliant and manly. Neatness of person and quarters is attained by frequent and strict inspections. The personal appearance of cadets is inspected at the morning study call and at the drill formation by the cadet officers and at the battalion inspection by the commandant of cadets. His clothes must be brushed and free from spots, his linen clean, his shoes polished, and in every way must he present a neat and soldierly appearance. Quarters are inspected daily by an officer of the institute, and a rigid inspection is made by the commandant every Sunday morning. The military work in no wise interferes with the academic work: on the contrary, it is a great help. It expedites the moving of classes, and insures prompt and regular attendance both upon the classes and upon the evening study hall. The course of academic study embraces six years-two of preparatory work and four of collegiate. The preparatory classes are maintained for the benefit of young boys or poorly advanced students old enough to do sometimes two classes within a single year. The collegiate course is mapped upon the West Point method and embraces the study of mathematics. English, Latin, Spanish, French, German, English and American history, civil government, geology, and astronomy, chemistry, and military tactics. The school offers particular advantages in and lays great stress upon the study of English, mathematics, Latin, and Spanish. These four studies run through the entire collegiate course, and care is taken that the student is well grounded in them. With these as a nucleus the departments of history and science are built up, and full and complete instruction is given. As the school has just finished its third year, there are no graduates as yet, but there is now a first class, and the members will be graduated in June, 1902. In his report to the governor of his annual inspection of the New Mexico Military Institute, the adjutant-general of the Territory, Brig. Gen. W. H. Whiteman, says: "On the 4th day of April, 1901, I made the annual inspection of the New Mexico Military Institute, situated at Roswell. The institute had a few days before made a change in the superintendent, made necessary owing to the illness of the former superintendent, Col. James G. Meadors. The former commandant of cadets, James W. Willson, was promoted to the office of superintendent, and owing to his long connection with the institute. his familiarity with everything pertaining to it, and his popularity with both regents and students, the change was made without any embarrassment to the school. "A few days prior to the inspection a number of students had been called home to assist through the lambing and shearing period, but on the day of the inspection there were 84 students in the barracks, 82 of whom turned out for inspection and drill, one was sick in quarters, and one was officer of the day. Battalion drill was conducted in a very creditable manner by one of the cadets commanding, the three companies also being commanded by cadet officers. I was profoundly impressed with the improvement made during the year in the soldierly appearance, carriage, and manner of the cadets. Their uniforms were in excellent condition considering that most of them had been worn for nine months, which spoke well for the neatness and cleanliness of the students and the exactions of the officers. Two-thirds of the students loosed fit to go into active service with an hour's notice. It speaks volumes for the healthy surroundings of the school that no student has died since the opening of the school four years ago. I found class rooms and dormitories, kitchen. and dining room in orderly cleanly condition, and the same may be said of all the rooms and buildings connected with the institute. In the military department the corps of cadets is organized into a battalion of three companies, having a full corps of cadet officers. The commissioned officers are as follows. viz: First captain. G. W. Read, Roswell, N. Mex.: second captain. E. R. Bowie, Gallup, N. Mex.: third captain. M. L. Kelley, Sierra County, N. Mex.; captain and adjutant, E. Patterson Roswell, N. Mex.: first lieutenant. S. W. Simpson. Taos County, N. Mex.: first lieutenant, Thomas Crumpacker, Albuquerque, N. Mex.: first lieutenant, B. R. Webb. Fort Worth, Tex.: second lieutenant, A. Ririe, Lincoln County, N. Mex.; second lieutenant. Richard Seay, Roswell, N. Mex. "Of the 45 rooms occupied by officers and cadets 30 are in the main building. 10 are in the new gymnasium building, and 5 in the officers' building. Besides these buildings there is the superintendent's residence. Four rooms are occupied by servants and domestics. The new building spoken of is a frame one-story structure, 75 by 40 feet. erected in the summer of 1900 to be used as a gymnasium, but the need of quarters was so great that it was fitted up temporarily and used for that purpose. As soon as the new building authorized by the last legislative assembly to be constructed can be built this building will be used as originally intended and fitted up with gymnasium apparatus under the charge of a competent instructor. "I was pleased to observe the patronage has broadened. Six different States are represented in the pupilage, some cadets coming from States as far distant as California. Minnesota, and Virginia. They are not health seekers, but healthy young men going through the regular work of the school. In my annual inspection reports I have described the location of the institute, its grounds. surroundings, buildings, and improvements so often that it seems to me unnecessary in this report to go into an extensive description of the same. The growth of shade trees, shrubbery, and grass in each recurring year adds beauty and comfort to the grounds, and nothing is left undone to make the surroundings attractive. The regents and officers of the school have their hearts in this work. They are proud of their success thus far, but, not being satisfied by past achievements, are increasing the capacity of the school and improving the quality in every particular. The legislative assembly at its last session authorized the issuing of bonds to the amount of $25,000 against the lands of the institute for the construction of new buildings and other much-needed improvements and equipment. This should double the capacity of the school and greatly increase its usefulness." By section 6 of council bill No. 9, passed by the thirty-fourth legislative assembly and approved by the governor, it is provided that The governor of the Territory and each member of the council and house of representatives composing the thirty-fourth legislative assembly and of each succeeding assembly thereafter of the Territory of New Mexico shall have the privilege of appointing one cadet from his district to said military institute. who shall be by the said board of regents received and furnished military training and equipment, tuition, lodging, and medical attendance free of cost and board at actual cost to the institute for the period of two scholastic years from the first Monday in September after such appointment: provided, however, said cadet so appointed must not be less than 14 nor more than 20 years of age at the time of entering the institute and subject to other quali ications required by the board of regents." By this act the regents take thirty-seven cadets, who are only required to pay $112.50 to cover actual cost of their table board. Appointees must enter at or above the fourth class. Quoting from the third annual report of the board of regents to the governor of New Mexico: "Compared with other schools of this order, the New Mexico Mili |