Excerpt from Annual Catalog 1917-1918, Calendar 1918-1919 In 1893 the Honorable Felix Martinez and Senator Albert B. Fall, members of the Territorial Council of New Mexico, prepared a bill and secured its passage, creating the New Mexico Normal School at Silver City and the New Mexico Normal School at Las Vegas. By special law the name of the Normal School at Las Vegas was changed to the New Mexico Normal University in 1899, and its powers were enlarged: so that the school might exercise the functions of a college of education. Such a school has a double purpose: to train young men and women to be efficient teachers, who are leaders in the higher and better phases of the social life of the state; and to furnish a pedagogical laboratory, where theories of education are tested. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.