The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-02-09

east OF England, no less a parsonage
the boss of the lower world
on may find in the same town q
wei endowed school where the puriIs
get their education free, and wear the
same kind of clothing furnished free
/ with perhaps few bursaries of ~ Io0
+ or more thrown in all free. because
| these pupils were all born in a certain
locality. or because they possess such
| distinguished names as Smith or
Brown. While the schools of Honolulu
are not quite so old as those / have
been speaking of, yet they are iust as
distinct. How unlike Punahou. Ka-
mehameha, the High school. the ROYAL
school and Fort Street school. and the
native girls school, Mills Institute,
st. Louis college. Kauluwela school.
the Normal school, the Anglican
school. Kawaiahao and the Pacific
Missionary Institute. Visit any Amer
lean city and you find the schools I'M
der the control of one board of educa-
ton, supported by a common fund.
the teachers mostly graduates of the
same normal school, or university, and
superintendent managing the whole
system. The teachers all have the
same method, everything being uni
form, and run like clock-work. Though
there may be various nationalities.
there is complete amalgamation, ex-
cept where the negroes keep away
from the whites.
In Honolulu you find the most cos
mopolitan population of any city on
the earth, and that population, the
least amalgamated of any city in the
world While those of Anglo-Saxon
origin as the Americans, British and
20 1lVa Ds-n 4,
in language and society, we find the
Hawaiians, Chinese, Japanese and Por-
tuguese different in language and hab-
its and slow to unite These many
races in the schools, under various
managements, supported by various
funds, in different kinds of buildings,
with teachers from several foreign
countries, as we'll as half-caste natives.
make the schools of Honolulu so char
acteriStic and so different from the
schools of other cities.
The visitor who goes through these
schools is well repaid for his time and
trouble. AT Punahou | found good
buildings, refined pupils mostly half
caste, superior class of teachers, who
seemed to excel in illustrations and
taught everything in a cultured man
ner. The modern language teacher.
the artist and the classical teacher, as
well as the teacher of bookkeeping
and the teacher of natural science, are
all doing splendid work The principal
is superior man.
The Kamehameha schools have pa
iatial buildings and extensive lands
with the finest museum of the kind in
the world. Their machine shops in
which the boys work in the afternoon
&c cf1 in ho ;crbf
shops should be erected and trades
taught such as shoe-making, tailoring,
ETC. Where they have so much land,
agriculture and horticulture should be
thoroughly taught. And the pupils
complete their courses of education
they should not be sent home but
should be furnished with places to earn
their living, such as on the lands of the
Bishop estate. The pupils of these
schools are all native and are taught
in all the departments of the boys,
girls and primary schools by highly
trained American teachers. | never
saw sixty finer looking girls of any
nationality than the girls of Kameha-
meha school with bright flashing eyes,
sift voices and strong healthy bodies
These girls should be we'll cared for
after they leave school, otherwise they
are like flowers bloomed in a green
house and then thrown out in the
fields to live or die.
1.-THE High school has a very fine
building and beautiful grounds. The
principal is cultured gentleman. The
vicep principal was born to talk and
talks in a very interesting manner.
Mr.. Wood, the natural science master
is well educated and up to date in
every respect. The normal school is
small because there are five normal
classes in Honolulu. Principal Dumas,
however, understands we'll normal
work and is bound to succeed. The
grammar school department of the
High school has three fine young la
dies, all splendid teachers. Perhaps
the most characteristic school in Ho-
nolulu is the Royal school of native
boys.
1.-The principal, a cultured gentle
man, is doing a work equal TO the
ability of three we'll qualified teachers.
The school is conducted like some of
the English schools with pupil-teach-
ers The principal, Mr.. Macintosh,
is a great man He baptiZes the little
watches over them till they
enter school, educates them, finds them
marries them, and if they
die sends them up to better world.
He has a very large school and a fine
staff of assistants. His pupils are po-
lite, kind and fond of work. In the
native girls school l found everything
conducted in the most modern way.
The principal, Miss Duncan, is splen-
did teacher and her assistants are very