The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-06-27

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Another improvement of equal import.
ance vas the purchase of the Armstrong
lot at the head OF Richard street and the
opening OF the Preparatory School there
IN January, 1888, under Miss L. Moore,
which has supplied an urgent need.
During the summer of 1888, President
Jones retired after five years of faithful
service, and was succeeded by Rev. VIC.
Merritt. who for seven years more con-
Quoted the affairs of the College with
great energy, devotion and business abil-
lty. The following year the Bishop Hall
! OF Science Was built and furnished with a
lapora DRY, apparatus, etc., out of Hon C..
K. Bishops generous donation OF SIS 900
for the scientific department.
LII can no longer be said that "Chemis-
try has to be taught without a laboratory,
or Astronomy without telescope" The
chair OF Chemistry and Natural Science
has been ably filed, first by Professor Van
Sly Ike, and then since 1889, by Professor
A. b. Lyons, an alumnus of whom the
College is proud The Governme as
sists this professorship by an annual
grant OF 81 200.
The late lamented DR. S. G. Damon left
by his will s4 900 to the College. part of
the income OF which was to be set apart
tor the Library and in 1885, nearly
81 900 besides was raised for the pur-
chase of new books. The new building,
called the Presidents House," was
built by the liberality of friends of the
College in the fall of 1885. In 1888 a
fine swimming bath Was added to the at
fractions OF Punahou. to replace the old
bathing pond" which had been filled
up. In the following year, $50, 900 was
added to the Endowment. of which sum
SAC, 900 was given by Hon. G. r. Bishop,
and SIC 900 by other friends of the Col
lege. At the same time by the generosity
OF its patrons, the Preparatory School
building was reconstructed and enlarged
In manner that left nothing to be de-
sired. ]c1 ]
Alter .'seven years of plenty" and pros
perity. the College was obliged last sum-
mer TO lose the efficient services of MIR.
and Mrs. Merritt.
The torch has been passed on to ano-
ther hand, but its light still shines as
brightly as ever, land We may congratulate
PRESIDENT Hosmer on the suspicious be-
ginning of his administration.
The good work still goes on ,and as late
as March the College received another
muliiticent gift from Hon. G. r. Bishop
OF 1000 towards the Endowment Fund.
The noble donor evidently believes in
the maxim: Bis dat qui otto dat !" He
gives twice who gives quickly. Long
may he live to see the good results of this
wise investment. SD
1t is to be hoped, however, that this
will not close the series of benefactions to
Oahu College. Her friends have done
molly, but 1t still remains to provide the
institution with ample means for thor
ough course of physical training that she |
may send forth sound minds in sound |
bodies to meet the trials of life.
One impression which this historical |
review impresses on the mind is the de- |
siraoillty OF greater permanence in. the
Faculty Of the College. Yale College |
has had but five presidents since 1895.
averaging twenty-three years to an ad- |
rninistration. while Oahu College has had |
nile since 1871. This is not the place to |
discuss the causes OF this. No doubt the |
latter place is the harder OF the two TO |
fill under existing circumstances. Yet
it is to he hoped that the present admin
lstration will, in this respect, follow the |
Yale presidents rather than our own.
The Fifty-year Catalogue will contain |
904 names of pupils who have been con-
nected with the institution since 1S4I, of |
whom 53S We're males and 366 females.
or the whole number about 796 are be-
lleved to be living. Out of this number |
many have since graduated at colleges
and professional schools in other coun-
tries, eighty arc pursuing advanced |
studies elsewhere, eighteen are clergy
men, twenty-eight are lawyers, eighteen
are physicians. about thirty are engaged
III teaching, while others are engaged in
agricultural, mechanical or mercantile
pursuits /; in snort, in every useful and
honorable calling. AS nearly as can be
656, constituting majority
OF the whole, have settled in Hawaii nei,
and are counted among her most loyal
and public spirited citizens. Indeed, the
waters Of the Punahou spring seem TO
have the same virtue that is ascribed to
the fountain of Trevi in Rome, viz,
that those who have drunk of it once are
sure to return, sooner or later, to drink
of it again.
But many who have remained abroad
have shed lustre on their Alma Mater.
In the late civil war il, The United
States, number OF her alumni volun-
teered for service on the side of the
Union, and bravely did their part in thel
bloodiest battles of the war, while others
served in the Christian and Sanitary
Others have been en-
gagged in an equally glorious warfare, in
which the weapons are not carnal, but
spiritual" in Spain, China, Japan. and
the United States.
AS in the Grecian legend, the fountain
Of Arethusa descended beneath the sea
to reappear in the far distant islet of
Ortygia, off Syracuse, so rill from the
Punahou spring has gushed forth at
Hampton, Virginia, and is making the
waste places of the South to rejoice
md blossom as the rose." The elder
school regards with pride her stately
laughter, " Matre pulchra fila pul-
hrior f" CARER child OF mother fair)
Time would fail me to call the roll of
lumni who nave reflected honor on their
lima Mater. 1t is not the few indi.
lduais Who become conspicuous in the
'orld's eye; but the high average char.
cter OF the mass OF its graduates, that
Constitutes the true glory of any school
till [ may be pardoned for referring
nth pride to few absent friends. to
lodest missionary in Japan, who is
allied by Prof. Romanes, I" the most 7
rofound Of living thinkers on the snbi.ct
evolution (kev j. 7. Gulick), to the
llented young mechanic whose DESIGNS
nd working draw ings for the battleships
Uncle Sans new feet, have received
lch high praise from the Secretary of
lie Navy to our little colony of probes .
onal men and authors in Chicago. to :
lie distinguished young scientist en- 4
Dyed on the U. S. Geological SURVEY. A
I'd 10 many others who are Iaboring in n
any ways for the good of mankind
That which they have done but earnest