The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-07-07

~ " m 'uIfI Hf HtNf W ~
Du' 1i Chat uHf.t 600, "ne hundred.
Coon. \.-.l.w many If that hun.
drcl would bee likely to 90 away
NJ. About 80 might 90 away
To olhcr schools aud 60 or 40 remain.
Gen Armstrong said the question
Wa-, we're they likely to come, and
"hal were the prospects for educat-
Ing more children on that island.
lie had gone with Mr.. Atkinson to
kUlua and llanaci and seen Hawai-
ians and Portuguese together IN the
schools. Did these 20 well together Z
1t took some time to av id friction
| IN that regard in the States. The
testimony of teachers here was that
they saw no trouble on that score.
Most remarkable! 1t must be due
TO The good nature that shone in lIa-
waians' faces.
Mr. A kinson-There is no trouble
whatever in Hawaiian schools. In
San Francisco schooiboys stone Chi
nese children but here Chinese
children ningIe with others with
out any trouble, and after awhile
they aI1plaX in English.
Gen. Armstrong Aid that'eis
great point gained With regard to
The sexes, there are children up TO
the aye of Il going to school. Has
there ever been any trouble?
Mr.. Atkuson-None whatever to
my knowledge that is, from con-
tact in school.
Gen. Armstrong we must
learn to swim by going into the wa
ter, so we must Learn society by 60
ing into society. Hawaiians have a
pride about them which can be APP
pealed to. The schools must be
either Christian or non-Chris tan
my opinion is that they should he
evangelical. There should be no.
thing, however, that would wound
tie religious feelings of any child.
The plan for next year was to have
the school IN the hands of Miss Ken
will, who was one of Hampton's eff
Gent instructors, and Miss BatcheI.
Ter from Massachusetts. 1t was still
question what men to get. DR..
Smiths own foreman, Mr.. Farley,
was willing to engage for half his
salary in order to make the work a
success. If he was what he appear
ed to be the Kauai school could get
no better man. Other men, perhaps
shoemaker and carpenter, might
be got. DR.. and Miss Smith had
carried on this Mork at their own ex-
pense, bnt they felt that they could
not do 80 any more. 1t was out of
debt and it was important that a
push should be made to carry it on
II there was to be any doubt about
this matter, let the boys department
go on as it had been. The speaker
went into some details Hf require
ments and closed by saving. II only
hope this idea of co-e ttt,tion will
be taken up earnestly ...I worked
for all it is worth"
Mr. Atkinson, at the requ st Of
DR.. Smith, presented his views. The
Doctor had asked him to let the
meeting know what were some of the
needs OF boarding schools. There
were 10 boarding schools on the isl
ands. One is mixed school Oahu
College --with about 40 pupils. Ka-
mehamcha, he was quoting figures of
1890, had 80 boys in the advanced
grade and 40 in the preparatory St.
Louis College, 80 boys; Iolani Col
lege, 80 boys; Kawaiahao Seminary,
l23 girls; Sisters of the Sacred
Heart, 100 do. ST. Andrews Priory,
"a do; kaplolani Home, II do
Lahainaluna, 40 boys st. Anthony's,
Y do. East Maui Seminary. 105
girls; Iiilo Boarding School, 45 boys;
Christ Church, Kohala, 8; Kohala
Girls School, 81 in all 1872 boys
and 453 girls, or percent of total
school population of 10000. If 8
percent was sufficient proportion to
have in DO riding schools, they had
nearly enough of those schools now.
Kauai, however, had no boarding
school, and the question was whether
each island should not have its own
boarding school. AT first he was
opposed to having one on Kauai, but
on coming to think it over he had
concluded that the island ought to
have its boarding school, with its
nearly 1000 children and its good
common schools for all who chose to
go. When the Government provided
schools for teaching reading, writing
and arithmetic, it did all it should be
expected to do. He did not think
the people should be taxed for higher
education. He was much pleased to
see the lines on which DR.. and Miss
Smith intended to work. They
meant to make the children work.
Ii they could not make the school
self-supporting, they could make
the boys think they were sup
porting themselves. At Hamp-
ton the boys must earn their
board, clothes, light and medi
cal attendance. He had opposed
proposal to give up taro-planting at
Lahainaluna. AS to co education,
when he came here % years ago he
believed in keeping boys and gills'
schools separate, but modifying his
views he proposed that Fort Street
school should be a boys and girls
school, That was done and there
had never been any trouble in conse-
quence. He believed in co-education