The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-06-21

Wednesday morning public examin-
alton of the Kamehameha School for
Boys was held in the Gymnasium, one
of the half-dozen or so large buildings of
the imposing group now adjoining what
about year ago was an uninviting and
| uninhabited desert. ALI the reserve
| space of the main hall was thronged
with visitors from town, among others
being noticeable Princess Liliuokalani,
Mrs. j NJ. Damon, Mrs. J. o. Carter,
Rev. DR.. Hyde and Mr.. G. NJ Cooke of
the Trustees, Rev. S. E. Bishop and
| wife, Rev. DR.. Beckwith, Rev. George
Wallace, Hons. G. R. Bishop, w. H.
Rice, F. Gay, G.. N. Wilcox, J. U. Ka-
walnut and A. P. Kalaukoa, Messrs.
F. S. Lyman, Frank Pahia and other
gentlemen, together with large number
of relatives and friends of the pupils.
When our representative entered Miss
Reamer, first assistant teacher, was con-
Quoting a review of the junior class-a
bright-looking row of neatly clad young
| boys-the exercises consisting of read
ing, reciting passages of Scripture in
chorus and other language lessons. In
| the meantime written exercises of both
| divisions of the school, comprising dicta-
| ton in selections, grammar and arith-
| metic were quietly passed from hand to
hand among the audience. Everything
indicated that these youthful HaWaiians
| are being grounded on basis of thor
| ough knowledge of the English language,
thence morally and Intellectually built
up in principles drawn from the Chris
tan textbook and the elements of a
sound, practical education.
Rev. w. B. Oleson, principal of the
school, followed with a review of the
senior class. The drill IN grammatical
synthesis, or sentence-building showed
that the rule governing the institution
was to begin at the beginning of every
thing. Leaving out of discussion the
matter of novel terms in modern text
books, so strange to learners of former
day, it was evident to observers that the
pupils here were being thoroughly
trained to practical knowledge of rudi-
ments, as distinguished from mere
parrOt-like requirements of definitions
and rules. They evinced remarkable
command of arithmetical processes SO
far as they have advanced, solving in
scarcely a failure in recitatiOns from
memory. English is not lost sight of in
this branch, the solutions being written
on the blackboard at length after their
verbal production.
At intervals and the close of school
room work Miss Dressler, the teacher in
music, led the school in choral exercises.
And it was singing worth going some
distance to hear, being in perfect unison
and revealing distinctly many rich
voices in all the parts. Adjournment
was made from the Gymnasium to the
departments of manual training.
The technical department is housed in
a snug and shapely building at the town
end of the row. Visitors were admitted |
first to the sewing room, where a large |
quantity of exploits by the younger boys |
was shown. Leaving to a competent |
Judge an opinion upon the exhibit, the |
remark of lady visitor after inspecting |
the button-hole work is apropos, namely: |
'Girls could scarcely do better than |
that" From this room the carpenter |
shop is entered and quickly crowded so |
densely that the boys had room for little |
more exhibition work than their very |
interesting hammer drill. However, a |
graduated series of previous craftsman |
Ship from the opening of the school till |
now, in the shape of samples of mitring |
and dovetailing showed that the |
bows had made substantial progress, |
under the instruction of Mr.. Terry, the |
master carpenter of the institution. The |
printing office doors being thrown open |
the class in that branch all proceeded to |
set up an address to the visitors, first |
done having the honor of putting the |
form to press and striking off copies for |
distribution among those present. The |
young typos did not have justice in |
being too much crowded by the friends |
for facile work, yet evinced creditable |
degree of speed and accuracy consider |
ing the few weeks since instruction |
began. Mr.. Oleson himself directs this |
class and, although claiming to be |
an amateur of short experience, IS |
able to exhibit a variety of very |
tasteful samples executed by the |
lads. An excellent Peerless jobbing |
press is employed. The class is exer- |
cised regularly in newspaper compost !
ton, copied from the local papers, and |
in various descriptions of plain job |
printing-not for revenue but purely for |
instruction.
This evening at 7 80 O'Clock the first
annual exhibition of the school will be |
held at the Gymnasium, consisting of
singing by the glee club. declarations
and similar exercises.
There is at present lively scene to
be witnessed on the school grounds.
Mechanics are putting the finishing
touches on residence for the teachers.
A large force of workmen is employed in
erecting the frame of the Preparatory
School to be added to the monumental
establishment through the munificence
of Hon. G. r. Bishop. Quarrymen in
large numbers are operating on the dark
basaltic rock deposits, getting out a su-
perior quality of building stone both for
the Memorial Hall to be erected on the
campus and for the projected Bishop