The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-02


the circumstances and needs of our
island community, present and pros
pective, with no rigid requirements
designed to turn out finished pro-
ducts of one particular pattern but
under regulations, sufficiently flexi-
BILE not to exclude on the one hand
any boy whom it may be deemed
advisable to welcome, nor on the
other hand to keep on any boy in u
prolitless round of perfunctory
tasks. Ii is desired that the Kane
hameha Schools shall be help and
u stimulus in their relations to the
public school system of the King
dom, in no sense or shape to inter-
fere or compete with the govern
mental provisions made for the
general good. Such qualifications
will be required for admission as
will make it an honor and q prize
for any public school scholar to
secure the highest privileges of these
advanced schools. While they will
be conducted with special reference
to advantages to be afforded to
Hawaiians by preference, as the will
requires, they will not be exclusively
Hawaiian. Hilo and Lahainaluna,
Mqkawao and Kawaiahao may well
be devoted to such special work:
but the noble minded Hawaiian
chiefess who endowed the Kameha-
meha schools, put no limitations of
race or condition on her generous
Request. Instruction will be given
only in the English language, but
the schools will be opened to all
nationalities. Hawaiians must COM
pete with other nationalities in the
struggle for national existence. 1t
is wise to recognize this benefcent
but memorable law of competition
in human society, fundamental
law of all physical life. 1t is hoped
to help the young Hawaiian to hold
his own from the first in this honora-
bic rivalry, so that he shall work out
his own future under the conditions
most favorable for his success. To
this end some industrial training is
for the great majority more essential
than any high degree of literary
qualifications. The course of study
will require several hours of manual
labor every day, the controlling
purpose of the school being to fit
the boys to take hold intelligently
and hopefully of the work of life.
The best methods in vogue in other
countries will be adopted, so far as
they are adapted to our social con-
ditiOns and needs.
To how large a proportion of the
scholars these advantages will be
furnished free of cost the trustees
are not prepared now to say; but
they do deem it advisable that
specific though moderate charges
should be made for the advantages
offered by the school, any exception
to the rule to be considered on its
own merits, the testator's designs
being evidently not to establish an
orphan asylum or charity school
but to furnish advantages for the
education of Hawaiian youth. to
supplement the ordinary means and
methods, not to supplant them.
The Principal and his associates
will be chosen with reference to
their special fitness for the work
thus marked out, knowledge of Ha-
waiian character being considered
in the appointment, as well as the
social and personal attainments Of
the appointees. The wise provi-
sions of the will in regard to moral
and religious training are in full
accord with the sentiments of the
trustees, who hope to carry out such
measures and methods as will tend
to make good and industrious citi-
zens, interested in maintaining and
developing the principles, usages,
and institutions of the highest
Christian civilization.
The Course of Study, the Rules
and Regulations adopted in regard
to admission, and expenses in the
Kamehameha Boys School will be
prepared and published in due sea-
son-some time before the opening
of the school, which the trustees
now hope will be at the beginning
of the school year in September,
1887"
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