The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-05-18
~rhe IIilo boarding school.

THE Annual Examination Of the :. Hilo Boarding
School " took place on Thursday and Friday OF
last week, May Sd aud 4th.
Yhe young men, about Seyenty-SiN IN number,
acquitted themselves with much credit daring the
trying ordeal of two days.
1t was quite apparent to the many visitors
present that il was not gotten up for the occasion.
as many of these exercises are. This was evinced
by the readiness and correctness with which many
OF the young men selected at random, solved prob
lens on the blackboard which We're not in their
text books, and which they had not before seen,
showing d gratifying familiarity with the principles
underlying the branches OF study pursued.
But in nothing were we more Interested than IN
the young men themselves, in their bright intelligent
faces, their neat cleauly appearance, their admlra-
Die department III the Classroom, and during all
theAxercises. They have evidently been taught,
and what is more important still. they haze learned,
what young men III general are apt 10 learn Slowly,
the Importance of order, discipline and decOTunt.
There is about as much difference between the
educated and the uncducated youth oil Hawail, as
theIa is in the youths Of other lands the difference
between these young men, however, trained 10
habits of study and industry, and The young men
who run oar streets daily, Is too apparent not to
suggest the comparison.
l do not believe. Mr.. Editor, that the same
number of yoRng men could be found In any
country who could conduct themselves with more
propriety under similar circumstances.
This may not be surprising, however. when 1t is
member that they are under the able manage
ment OF Rev. ID. B.. Lyman, whom t~hirty-siX years
OF experience in this sort of work. has made master
of the situation.
There has been an average attendance during
the year OF about seventy young men, drawn hltler
from all parts of the Island.
The young men were examined by their teachers
in Arithmetic, written and mental. in Geometry,
Algebra. Moral Science. Natural Theology, Church
History, Geography and Reading. they were
trained also, throughout the yeaf, in Writing. Com
position. and Music. And last, but by no means
the least important, they are here trained to i0bOT.
For the school is conducted on the manual labor
system. An important element-by The way-ls
this labor department i'll the education OF tie
Hawaiian youth!
They are here not only given 4 knowledge of
for It. at the same time acquiring habits of industry
aud economy labor also. is digniied in their esI-
nation by a~rfording them the means TO their
mental and moral elevation.
fThe young men of this school pay all their per
sonal expenses by the labor of their hands. Mr..
Lyman has been very ably seconded in conducting
this interesting establishment during the past year.
sby accomplished assistants, Miss Elizabeth Lyons.
MI HuluhuIu. and Mr.. j. Nawahi. The last named
gentleman is now in the Legislature. he having
been chosen to represent his own district of Puma.
Mr.. Lyman has been engaged in the instruction
of Hawaiian youths for tie last thirty SIX years; his
has been a retired transformations work. bat no sin
ecure | assure yOu but a work calling for the
greatest sell-denial. the most indomitabie perse-
verance, and cOnsummate skill. Let the school,
now celebrating its thirty-Sixth year, tell the story
OF his trials aud his successes.
Truly. the words of the 4" Great Apostle y might
be most suitably expressed by his lips. Il have
laid the foundation. and another buildeth thereon. .
lIilo. Nay 9th, 1872. FIT.