The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-11-30
Th. Ixerornatory school.

IN ancient lore We read Of a certain sJd-likc
youth. namei NsEcissrs. who pinned away in love
and admiration Of his own perfection. Our Hon
Orzble B5ard Of Education VO--e-- a remarkable
similitude o. this -elf-loving hero Of antiquity.
They seen to be - completely Lost in the admin
ton Of their own superior wisdom, that such
eunmOn virtues n foresight, discretion, consist
eney, or the possibility Of the failure Of any Of
their numerous experiments, never fit before
their euraptured minds.
by Authority in the GG=ene, We find that
a Female Department Of the R~eformatory i open
Ell on the same ground ~ that Of the boys, ut
Kapalama. Now with what cOnsis .ency can the
sexes be placed together in n Reformatory. and
separated in the common schools? Had not the
Honorable Bard better reconsider all the argu-
ments ON the subject they have put forth from time
To time or are they ~ iar gone a. to imagine that
tie discipline Of this model school is 50 perfect,
that even the mighty bug-bears raised by the
Honorable Board can be safely defed?
Again,-bow often has the R~eformatory School
and it, Director been held up as the very acme Of
success? What endless twaddle has been talked
I about the great good that must result from it to
the Hawaiian race, ..Call at our Office -
=. come out with Us am see for yourselves WAS
the invitation Issued by tine Government paper,
generally. The boys well fed and clothed, well
looked after and taken care of, and made 10
work was the puff in the daily Herald. The
Re 4uok04 held fEth on the economy with which
the institution was managed. The Honorable
Board in fact have LIST NO opportunity, either
privately or publicly Of firing of this big gun
the only shadow Of success they ever had, by the
way.
Whence then this rumor this sIeck on the
polished mirror? Can il be true that this :. only
eligible candidate has failed? Can il be true
that this perfect Director has been suddenly and
TcTemVtorily dismissed by the Beard? Oh, how
are the mighty fallen Such however. i the
rImOr abroad, AMI that u SUCCESSOR from Kauai
has been appointed.
IL j. MT our province to enquire into the quail
fsltiJns II hs rumOrcd succcssJr. II he j.
among tie prophets the Honorable Board
have dygbtlc-- done that, and have satisfied them
selves a. % biz activity, energy AMI experience in
training Hawaiian boys and girl bat how has
it ~haTIeuei that this model Director Of such vast
experience, who has 80 often been danglcd before
our eyes a. the fright man in the right Place
las found his way down among the fallen sin-
ners?
II the umOred -ueccs-or j. appointed. why j.
the appointment not sazetted, a. in the cas- u
many minor oucs? Why was not the situation
fairly advertised that all might hare a eAsHoe?-
that the H,noahlc BoaTd might have an oppor-
tunity Of getting the best qualified for the situa-
ton? But two reasons suggest themselves l.
The fact that this model image which tie Honor
able Bard has set NJ, but which has cracked in
the baking and fallen to pieces, i a Reformed
Catholic and his failings must be concealed -
That n public advertisement might possibly
produce another eligible candidate who was neither
Catholic nos Rformod. but a Protestant.
80 this institution. which has been bOasted Of
~ such n perfect success, has all along had in il
the same GERM Of failure which i found in n1st
Of the experiments VI tie honorable Board. SIC