The Portland daily press., 1897-10-02
HAWaH's COLLEGE.
A Full Pledged Institution of Learning in
the Midst of the Pacific.

Few persons, perhaps, know that in
Honolulu, in the midst of the Pacific
Ocean, there is fulldedged college which
is more than half century old, in which
q faculty, consisting almost exclusively
of graduates from American schools,
teach full English classical course, with
art and music, typewriting, and bust
ness course thrown in 10 boot. Such is
Oahu College, whose catalogue of its fifty
sixth years work has just reached this
part of the world.
In those years the college has had nine
presidents, including Frank A. Hosmer
A. M, the incumbent. President Hos
mer Is an Amherst man; Arthur B. In
gals, the professor of chemistry and
natural science, is from Amherst; Albert
L. Colston, professor of mathematical
and mechanical drawing, is civil en-
gineer from Cornell; Winfred II. Rabbit.
the Latin professor, is from Williams,
and Joseph L. Howard of the business
school is from the Stockton Normal In
| stitute. The rest OF the professors are
women. Florence Kelsey is an A. B
from Smith, Jessie Reene Axtell is from
the New England Conservatory of Must ),
and Bessie +. French was member of
| the New York Art League.
Punahou is the name of the suburb of
Honolulu where the main buildings of
the college Of Oahu are situated. 1t is
about two miles east of the city, but is
avenues and a street railway. On one
side are the mountains and on the other
the sea, and the thermometer seldom has
a range wider than from go degrees to SO
degrees in the whole course of the year.
The college has more than 30 acres in its
grounds, and the land teens with vege-
| table life. Here grow all the vegetables
known in this cline, besides bananas,
| oranges, pineapples, papaias, breadfruit,
anacado pears, vi-apples, mangoes, straw
berry guavas, lines, lemons, and cocoa
| nuts. There arc hundreds Of royal palms
| along the walks and carriageways, and
the pride of the grounds lisa hedge of
n ightblooming cereus which is 1900 feet
long and frequently has as many as eight
or ten thousand blossoms open upon it
at once, filing the whole country around
with its perfume.
| Punahou means NEW spring." and the
name of the college site comes from the
existence there of little lake of pure,
cool water which is fed by never-failing
springs that come from the mountain
side. The springs supply water, which is
piped through the college grounds and
buildings, and they also supply the water
for big swimming bath. This bath is
cemented, and holds $1,000 gallons of
water. 1t 10 provided with a spring
board, trapezes, and safety ropes, and
bath was the gift of George N. Wilcox
and Henry P. Baldwin. A saltwater
pond of half an acre is also fed by the
springs, and In this grow red, white, and
blue water. lilies andsthe pink lotus.- The
grounds are under the charge of Frank
| Barwick, from the Kew Gardens, Eng
land, and his name and that of Elizabeth
Crozier, matron and teacher of sewing,
are included in the list of the faculty,
probably because the students are all re-
Quired to do manual labor for two hours
or less each day under the direction of
these two.
| The Punahou Preparatory school is part
of tho college. Here the children are
taken through eight grades. from the
primer class to that Of the high school.
Samuel P. French. a graduate of Dart.
mouth is at the head of this school, and
Helen K. Sorenson of the California
State Normal School, Carrie A. Gilman
Wellesley are his assistants. That the
college ia intensely American may be
| judged from the list of holidays. Besides
all the Hawaiian Government holidays
Thanksgiving, Washington's birthday.
and Memorial Day are observed.
all loY1 H. IT,
DENTS house, Dole Hall, Rice Hall,
Pauaki Hall, and the old school hall.
Panaki Hall is the finest of these. It
is built of blue lava and Its general plan
is that of semioircle with different
rooms opening from the main entrance.
1t contains an assembly hall in which
there is a pipe organ, the gift of Mrs. s.
library, the presidents room, and eight
recitation rooms. In the dome Is the OBJ
servatory, containing a six-inch telescope,
and the basement contains store rooms,
photograph rooms, and the janitor's
quarters. The building was the gift of
Charles r. Bishop.
| Board in this college costs S5 week
for girls and $3.50 a week for boys, and
tuition costs but 81 a week. In the pre-
| paratory school tuition costs but so cents
a week. Girls have rooms in the main
hall and the boys In Dole and Rice halls.
| The girls pay more because their rooms
are supplied with furniture by the col
lege, while the boys rooms are not. The
co lege has 1o7 students and the prepara-
tory school 40. OF these only 20 are
boarding pupils. 1t costs only $3.50 to
establish free scholarship in this col
lege, and there are already twenty eight
of these.
1t is interesting in looking over this
catalogue from the Pacific to note the
names in the list of students. Most of
them are just such names as one would
find in New York school catalogue in
dicating mixed European parentage,
but others again are either distinctively
Hawaiian, Oriental, or curious mixtures.
There are Anthony Lee Able, Albert
Richard Cunha, David Keola Kalauoka-
lani. ssMartha Muriel Along, David Nc
Quibbert Kupikea, Wong Charles Ahfook,
En- Chang, Albert Gilbert Kaulukou,
Owalani Amelia Jaeger, William
Kameeiamoku Kalaiwaa, Caroline Nine
hua Rowland, Ella Appianni Long, and
Samuel Keoililane Parker.