tary Institute has been singularly free from the rowdyism and immorality of which so much has been recently said and written. No case of hazing has ever been known, and in all respects the discipline has compared most favorably with the very best schools of the Union.

"The military department has been well managed, and already the institute is an important adjunct to the National Guard of New Mexico.

The commissary department of the institute has been well managed. Only the best and cleanest food is provided, well cooked and well served. No school in the Union makes better provision for its boarders.

The fees of the institute, $200 per session for tuiton, board, lodging, laundry, and medical attendance, are lower than at any school of the same character in the United States. It was necessary to take and teach students almost at actual cost, not only in order to successfully compete with Eastern schools, but because the Military Institute is the property of New Mexico, and hence not founded as a speculation. The money thus earned should be directly applied to the uses of the school, in line with the purposes of its creation. If its earning power were largely increased, as would happen with ample buildings and equipments, it would soon have funds sufficient for ordinary needs, the fact having been demonstrated that it can educate a student for less money than a similar Eastern school, with as much thoroughness, and in a far better climate."

Section 2 of house bill No. 169. passed by the thirty-fourth legislative assembly, provides: The superintendent of the Military Institute shall have power to divide the students of the institute into companies and battalions, and to appoint company and battalion officers and noncommissioned officers, who shall hold their offices at the pleasure of the superintendent. Commissions shall be issued by the superintendent to company and battalion officers to be known as cadet commissions, which shall be signed by the superintendent and commandant of cadets, and a record kept of the same by the commandant, showing the date of all such commissions, and the expiration of the same and for what cause. The superintendent shall have power to prescribe the number and rank and duties of cadets and noncommissioned officers, conforming so far as practicable to the laws governing the National Guard of the Territory.

Section 5 of the same act provides: "The two cadets of the Military Institute who shall at graduation have the highest standing in the graduating class, shall receive from the governor and commander in chief commissions as second lieutenants in the National Guard of the Territory, and be assigned to duty to fill any vacancy in that grade occurring in any National Guard organization stationed in the county of their residence, without examination."

The school receives an annual levy of thirty-five one-hundredths of 1 mill of the taxes of New Mexico, but this amount is mostly used in furnishing lodging, laundry, and tuition to the thirty-seven Territorial cadets.

As soon as the bonds for the new barracks building can be negotiated, the regents expect to erect a large brick building to accommodate a hundred and fifty or two hundred cadets, whereby the revenue of the institute will be greatly increased, and the school will be very much better equipped for all scientific and technical work.

Following is the table of receipts and disbursements from the foundation of the school to September 5. 1901. All original bills and receipts are required to be itemized, and are carefully filed and preserved, and are subject to inspection at any time:

SIR: In compliance with your request for a report concerning the progress of the New Mexico School of Mines for the year ending June 30, 1901, I have the honor of submitting the following:

Never before has the School of Mines been in so flourishing a condition as at the present time.

I herein incorporate the report concerning the finances of the institution, by its secretary and treasurer, Mr. C. T. Brown, ending with the fiscal year June 30, 1901, as follows, to wit:

Statement of receipts and disbursements of funds of New Mexico School of Mines from June 30, 1900, to June 30, 1901:

In addition to the above the institution has also on deposit with the Territorial treasurer the sum of $13,368 as a permanent improvement fund, derived from the sale of lands donated by Congress; also a balance of $1,428.48, to be used for general running expenses.

The past year has witnessed a material increase in attendance over that of the preceding year, and from the numerous inquiries now being received from over the Territory and various States for information regarding the school there is every reason to believe that the enrollment during the session of 1901-2 will exceed that of any previous year.

The enrollment of the session just closed numbered: Male. 36; female, 30; total, 66. Out of this number there were 17 pupils doing advanced work; thus placing more than 25 per cent of the total attendance in the technical department of the school.

The majority of the pupils are from the Territory, as we should expect, although nearly 17 per cent of the total attendance were from the outside. The States represented were Iowa. Kansas, Louisiana, Ohio, Missouri, Colorado, and New York, besides the two foreign countries, Mexico and Canada.

Through the wise and liberal legislation of the thirty-fourth general assembly the levy for the support of the New Mexico School of Mines was increased 54 mills on the dollar, making now a total sum of 33 mills which the school annually receives on every dollar of the assessed value of the Territory. This increased levy has enabled the board of trustees of the school to employ another teacher, in the person of Miss Anne W. Fitch, of Cleveland, Ohio, whose duties will begin at the opening of the session in September. Miss Fitch's work will lie chiefly in the sciences of botany, zoology, biology, and physiology,

Prof. Francis C. Lincoln. B. S., of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been elected to the chair of chemistry and geology, recently made vacant by the resignation of Prof. William C. Phalen.

The faculty for the session of 1901-2 will consist of Fayette A. Jones, E. M., C. E.. director and professor of mining, metallurgy, and engineering: Francis C. Lincoln, B. S.. professor of chemistry and geology: Emmet A. Drake, A. M., principal of preparatory department; Julia F. Atkinson, B. L., assistant in preparatory department: Oliver R. Smith, B. S., assistant in engineering and drawing; Anne W. Fitch, instructor in general science.

The recent appointment of Capt. A. B. Fitch, of Magdalena, as a member of the board of trustees, vice W. S. Hopewell. resigned, has been received with universal satisfaction by the friends of the institution.

The present board of trustees are Juan Jose Baca, president, Socorro; C. T. Brown, secretary and treasurer, Socorro: A. B. Fitch, Magdalena; Frank G. Bartlett. Magdalena; Joseph E. Smith, Socorro.

The New Mexico School of Mines is to be congratulated on its management, due to its efficient board of trustees, for the businesslike manner and methods in adininistering to the wants of the institution. The $13,368, now available, derived from the sales of a portion of the lands belonging to the school, has made it possible to undertake extensive improvements in building and apparatus during the summer vacation. Among the improvements which have now been agreed upon are the entire renovation and overhauling of the present chemical laboratory, and inaugurating a new hot-water heating plant in lieu of the old inoperative furnaces of the Smead system. Three new muffle. coke, assay furnaces are to be erected in the assaying wing of the main building, which will give facilities for doing assaying equal to those of any mining school in the West. A complete line of chemical and physical apparatus of the most modern construction will be added and ready for use at the opening of the school in September. Many volumes on the scientific subjects of chemistry, geology, mineralogy, metallurgy, etc., will be added to the library during the summer and early fall.

The mineralogical and geological cabinets are having a steady growth, and will soon represent the complete collection of all the rock and mineral types common to New Mexico.

The south wing of what will be known as the Metallurgical Building will be completed by the middle of September; it is the intention of the board of trustees to add to this latter building, from time to time, as means will permit, and install the same eventually with metallurgical machinery. Respectfully submitted.

Hon. M. A. OTERO,

F. A. JONES, Director.

Governor of New Mexico.

THE NORMAL UNIVERSITY.

LAS VEGAS, N. MEX., July 22, 1901. SIR: In compliance with your request, we submit herewith a report of the condition and operations of the New Mexico Normal University up to June 30, 1901. This institution was established by act of the thirtieth legislative assembly, Chapter XIX, approved February 11, 1893, as one of two normal schools established for the Territory of New Mexico. After procuring a suitable site, the construction of a building for the use of the institution was begun, but owing to an insufficiency of funds remained unfinished and unfit for occupation, in whole or in part, until 1898, when a movement among the citizens of Las Vegas resulted in

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the raising by subscription of a fund of $19,335, in the form of an advance to the Territory, for completing and equipping the building. This was done and the school opened in October, 1898. Provision was made by the legislature of 1899 for refunding the money thus subscribed in three yearly installments, and by the same act the name of the institution was changed to that of the New Mexico Normal University. Since the opening of the school in October, 1898, it has steadily progressed in attendance and also in facilities for instruction.

In organizing the work of the New Mexico Normal University, the board of regents and president were guided by the various legislative acts pertaining to the institution and by the manifest needs of the people of New Mexico. The departments that make up the normal university are: (1) The normal school, with its accessory schools. which make up the training department, viz., the model schools, comprising ali grades froin kindergarten to high school, inclusive, and the practice schoo; (2) the academic school; (3) the manual training school; (4) the graduate school. It is believed that this plan of organization embodies the highest ideal of a normal school as a training school for teachers, and at the same time serves the purpose of bringing the advantages of good general education in elementary, secondary, and higher grades within the reach of every young person in New Mexico who is mentally and morally qualified to receive it.

The management holds that the mission of the normal school is threefold: (1) To educate teachers for the public school service: (2) to develop a model system of public school education for the guidance of the schools of the State; (3) to promote the vital relations which should exist between the home and the school. The ideal training for the teacher is the ideal training for the parent. No other course is such a direct and efficient preparation for home making as the normal

course.

The work of the normal courses is largely professional. Students taking these courses who are found deficient in general education are required to take the necessary preparatory work in the academic school. The aim is to give professional training to students who possess the requisite natural qualification for the making of teachers. In order to carry this unction of the normal school to the highest standard of efficiency the model school has been organized. The model school comprises kindergarten. primary, and secondary grades. It is a complete public school from kindergarten to high school inclusive. It is one of the essential departments of the normal school. The aim is to make the model school an institution which may become the pattern for the public schools of the Territory. To that end only the best of training teachers are placed in charge. The pupils of the model schools are under the direction of expert teachers from the beginning of their work in the kindergarten to the end in the high school. All the resources of the Normal University in the way of apparatus and appliances are used by the pupils of the model schools. The pupils have the full benefit of the museun, physical apparatus. library, laboratories, gymnasium, and athletic field. The school rooms are models of cleanliness, and every means known to pedagogic science is used to promote the health, comfort, happiness, and morals of the pupils. The rooms are made beautiful and home-like. The school hours are materially in the interests of health, and with actual gain in intellectual progress. There is no crowding of the course of study. By eliminating from the commonly accepted branches all that has been found to be lifeless and useless matter, and enriching the course with nature study, music, art, physical culture, manual training, and literature, the physical, mental, and moral vigor of the pupils is conserved. All students of the normal school have access to the model school for the study of methods, management, organization, classification, supervision, hygiene, course of study, and all other phases of public school work. The aim has been to make this a model course for the public schools of the Territory.

The academic school is another important department. The purpose of the academic school is twofold: (1) In carrying out one of the purposes of the normal school, i. e., to develop a model system of public schools for the guidance of the schools of the Territory, it is necessary to develop not only the elementary, but the secondary school as well. The academic school serves as a model high school in the development of the model school system. (2) The academic school affords the necessary opportunity for general education which very many young people of New Mexico need and are unable to secure elsewhere, as a preparation for entrance upon normal school, technical school, college, or university courses, or as a general preparation for life for those who will get no higher education. The requirements for admission are fulfilled by a good elementary school preparation, which includes the branches usually taught up to and including the sixth grade in public schools. The academic course will furnish adequate preparation for entrance upon the professional work of the normal school, or for entrance to the A. B., Ph. B., and B. S. courses in all American universities.