The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-07-30
ICorresponaence of .he Pacific Com. Advertiser,

Correspondence of The Pacific Com. Adyertiser.l
In the .ddcerfiser of yesterday the editors inform
their correspondents and readers that 6 by all rules
of honor they Gournalists) are bound not to notice"
anonymous communications assaulting them in their
own journals. Though i demur to this rule, because
1 believe that an editor is specially bound, on the
contrary, to notice every communication-anonymous
or not-that rejects upon his own course as a public
writer and public man, provided such communication
is written in unobjectionable language; yet l rejoice
that the editors stretch a point of their rule and no
tice as a literary curiosity what they would not have
noticed out of regard for themselves. 1t would have
been q grave error and an acs of journalistic vandal-
ism not to have noticed this special curiosity of lit
erary dilettanteism, and passed it around for the in
spection of others.
Care hominem unius Iibri, is an old saying but
very applicable to the writers in behalf of the Oahu
College. Gentlemen with names and nameless gents,
Sfudsnts and .Magistri, see nothing in the movement
agitating the public mind but a most unwarranted
attack on the President of the Board of Education
and the President of the Oahu College. The magni-
fed proportions of the two presidents prevent those
writers from seeing the travestied form of education
suing for a hearing and a rational treatment.
The last Of these literary &c Pusses in boots'' is a
Mr.. .fagister, whether artium or ~partium, depo-
Ache s"yCth uOtsJ uc u Wuut LII s1uCeTttSeF Truly
calls him, :. . literary curiosity The consummate
assurance with which he enters the arena and repeats
the stale fallacies of his predecessors is very amusing.
He is apparently not sure, however, of his own iden-
tity; and there is a delightful confusion ir his mind
whether he is an . ~ or a WEI He spurports
to throw a small : flood of light upon educational
matters" and he has truly kept his word, for it is
so small that nothing but the darkness of his own
composition can be seen by it. His allusion to, and
defense of, 8 the little, old man who is so unfortunate
as to stand at the head of the Department of Public
Instruction is = novelty in polemics. 1 have hitherto
been taught that public men were only known in
controversy by their proper names or those Of their
offices, and that personal sou5riguefs were inadmissi-
BILE. 1 agree however with him that it is particularly
unfortunate that this ss.ittle old man. should 'sstand
at the head, . for it is now perfectly evident thai. by
so doing, he only stands in The ,cay of the Board Of
Education.
The .Nagister further says: " The sacrifices which
they (the President and Professor of the Conege) made
in accepting the places which they occupy forbid the
suspicion that they are the subjects of favoritism,
and that for both Of them there were not wanting
posts of distinction. Perhaps not. Like M.
.Micam5er they we're g only waiting for something to
turn up" en- attendant those 9 posts of Distinction -
but the very scicitLdc with which they, or their
friends orsthem, are airing their expectations, is an
offence against good taste, very reprehensible in a
.6fcgisfer.
Spesking of the college, the .Magister says, g that
those Who had studied the subject in all its bearings,
had caught an idea of progress 1 would respect
fully propose as an amendment of the text, that it is
mors likely that they had .scaught a Tartar,'' than
an = idea of progress : Coming events cast their
shadows before" The idea of a college is worthy of
l,x .;+r ,o,1;e.x;oc ss4t.o-, H. Ill
studied the subject overlooked the relations and
conditions Of the present and the future, and in their
eager hurry to avoid present and personal inconveni-
ence are going to compromise future and permanent
prosperity.
The yMagisey's reflection upon the separate educa-
ton of boys and girls ii worthy of the best times Of
the Spartan commonwealth. "As though NATURE
h essays. 6 had she intended boys and girls to be edu-
Gated separately, would net in some way have in IL
Gated the fact, Well said, Lucy Stone the world
is a race-course and competition should be free, for
Nature never indicated whether the winner should be
male or female. l admire !. strong-minded women,''
with . strong dash of b!1e about the lips, and so@
IDENTIFY does Mr.. JMagister. There is nNressd1nce in
their composition. nothing o. that noli me tangere
sensitiveness, nothip Of that childish simplicity and
fond trusting SO often and so cruelty deceived, but the
stern, stark, staring reality of a woman, able to go
hereown errnnds and do her own counting, conscious
of her rights and capable to defend them, apt to chop
1ogio though inexpe t in mutton chops, aspiring, am
bitiocs, bold And how could such q Minerva he
formed, Nefe In not for the community Of education !
To be sure " Mature would in some way have indi-
Gated the fact although 81. Paul says: ssI suffer
not the woman to teach'' (publicly). But then St.
PsulsMas rather a hereto in g female rights and
Had not 9 caught the idea of progress"