The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-01-27

waiia, whose father was the second Presi-
dent OF the Colle%e, and AlonzO Judd, Chief
Justice of Hawaiia, whose father, Dr. G.. p.
Judd, received from Boki the gift OF the
land for Punahou. Oah.l &. llegc is open
to- all races and creeds, boys and girls, and
to-day the students are Hawaiian, Chi
nese, japanese and Anglo Saxon--the lat
ter including American, English, German,
Swede, French and Portuguese
Something like so scholarships have been
established at Oahu College by men and
women who were its early students The
name Punshou is now applied to the pre-
paratOry department. OF the standing of
Oahu College it need only be said that
students from Oahu come to the United
States and enter Yale without condition
The Kamehameha schools are uniaue in
more ways than one. They are exclus-
ire.y for pupiis Of Hawaiian blood, no mat
ter how slieht the strain, they must have
Hawaiian blood to be admitted, according to
the will of the founder, Mrs Bernice
Pauahi Bishop, the last of the Kane
hameha line, and wife of Charles r. Bish-
op, the well known banker of Honolulu
Mrs. Bishop possessed great wealth in her
own right, all Of which she left for the edu-
cation of Hawaiian boys and girls in the
hands Of trustees, her husband one Of the
number.
The Kamehameha schools are lust out
side OF Honolulu, on land comprising q
thousand acres, much OF it laid out in
beautiful grounds. Most of the school
buildings are Of the lava rock, a handsome
dark gray building stone quarried nearby
on the land. They arc architecturally at
! tractive, and fully up-to date in all facii-
! ties Of home and school equipment The
/ scope begins with the kindergarten which
pupils enter, and leafs to the college for
which they are prepared The manual
/ training includes trades and industrial
! lines for both boys and girls.
! hJ1i I,-a.,
lights and bells, and students are the
| electricians, having full charge of the
| dynamo shops. la fact, all the work OF the
/ schools is dome by the students The boys
| are taught to be bread winners, and the
| girls hoIne-nlakers. They also are taught
the accomplishments, music, drawing and
! painting, fine needle work, and the art oi
| cooking in its best sense.
! Ar Bishop has supplemented his wife +
1 bequest with repeated gifts from his own
fortune. a beautiful chapel OF cut lava
rock has recently been 1fGIn pletea, built by
| AL- Bishop as memorial 10 his gife III
| stands Just within the schooi grounds
4 The Old n;Gtlve church IN I.on5l.' la Is oI
| coral rock, iruilt GO ye; RS .ago. The coral
was cut by TIE natives and Carried mp from
the sea by the natives, the kirg himself
| setting the example by carrying the first
/ block OF corai. The walls are laid mp like
| brick WORK, smooth and regular, though
there were neither maSosnS nCx tools ia
these days.
! Tise Pastor, Rev Dr. Parker, is OF hni4ri-
| can ancestry, AM las been the Pa tor
! nearly 10 years He has wisely Lep. poll
tics CIT Of his pulpit. II is the lea ing
| n1tive church OF the Island
The Royal Pew - is often occupied by
| visitOg, and not unfrcGuertiy member Of
| the present Go2sTBment are seated t'ieie
| IL was in this cd ci3urc1 that Senator
| Morgan spoke to the HaWaiians IN hnrcx-
| alton, during his recent Wis t. the Islands
| JANET JENNIAGs.