The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-01-31

They Celebrate the Seventeenth
Day Of January.

Day OF January
It is seldom that such small
community as the Hawaiian Isl
ands is able to give so many of its
young men the advantage of col
lege education.
1t may be of interest to note the
Hawaiians who are studying in the
various Eastern colleges. Yale
seems to be the favorite, as the
Hawaiian club here now numbers
eight men. One meeting is held
every three weeks at the rooms of
the various fellows. Hawaiian
songs, home news and politics are
the chief subjects of entertainment
and discussion. \. G.. Alexander,
80, is the president of the club.
He is now pursuing'a course In the
graduate department of the Shelf
field Scientific School. He is son
OF Prof. w. D. Alexander of Yale
'55. J. P. Cooke. son of J. P Cooke
the class of '63, is now a senior,
and graduates in June. s. E.
Damon is the only Hawaiian in
go. C. VI. Cooke, Jr., W. d. Bald
win, w. G.. Cooke, ]. R Judd and
A. F. Judd, Jr., are all members of
'97, the Freshman class.
Harvard has the next largest
representation Of Hawaiians. Eric
A. Knudsen, Of Waiawa, Kauai, is
now a senior; his brother, A. s.
Knudsen, is a member Of the Soph-
more class of '96. J. A. Wilder,
'93, is now studying in the Law
School. He has done credit to his
Alma Hanau" with his "uku-
lele" and Hawaiian songs. Arthur
Brewer and his brother Charles
Brewer are both members of the
class Of SO, while not having lived
in tie islands since their boyhood,
vet, from their birth, they come
properly to be classed In this list
They are both fine athletes, the
well on the Harvard Varsity foot
ball team for the past two seasons
J. q. Wood, while strictly not
Hawaiian, yet, from his connec-
tons with Punahou as in instructor,
gains his right to be classed here
He Is at present in the Law School,
and when last seen, during the
HOLIDAYS. was quite homesick for
Honolulu
Next comes Princeton, which
boasts a Hawaiian Club composed
entirely Of Warehouses, and each
of them holds an Office. Z. G.
Waterhouse. the President Of the
club. graduates IN June, and then
contempIates the study of medi-
cine. J. P. WaterhOuse is a soph-
more. CT. 5. Waterhouse is a fresh
man in the academic course, and
his cousin, Henry Waterhouse, Jr.,
is q scientific student IN the same
class.
Alex. NJ. Atherton Is the only
Representative Hawaii has at Wes-
Ieyan. He is a member Of the class
Of 81.
C. K. Hyde is a freshman at
Williams.
Clayton Ostrom. of Kohala, re-
presents Hawaii at Rutgers IN the
freshman class
Ernest Z. Lyman, of Hilo, Ha-
waii, is pursuing q scientific course
in the Pratt Institute Of Brooklyn,
y. Y.
II. A. Baldwin and c. W. Dickey
are seniors in the Massachusetts
Institute OF Technology, where they
have spent four years of hard study
Hawaii Is not lacking represen-
tatives in the preparatory schools
Hiram Bingham, Jr., Is a senior at
Ando7er, and expects to enter Yale
next fall. Arthur Baldwin and
Frank Baldwin, both sons OF h P.
Baldwin, are preparing for Yale at
the Hotchkiss School, OF Lakeville,
Conn. The former enters Yale next
fall, and his brother soon after him.
All the HaEaiians East here,
especially those Of Us here at New