The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-05
IT OPENS TO-DAY
Fall Term of the Oahu
College.
Some Recommended ons Contained in the An
Bua Report Of Princ'pal
Hosmer,

Oahu College opens for its fall term
today. Indications are that the en-
rollment will be larger than that of any
previous year. The corps of teachers
is organized, the several vacancies
caused by designations having been
filled. The work done at this institu-
ton is being felt more and more year
by year.
In this connection extracts from the
report of President Hosmer will be of
interest:
THE last academic year has been on
the whole quite successful. Ninety
nine students have been enrolled at
the college, including those in the bus
mess, music and art departments The
number at the Preparatory School is
247, making a total of 346, the largest
numbers thus far in the history OF the
institution.
The school has continued to main
tain its high standard in preparing
young men for American universities,
Messrs. Godfrey and Rawlins receiving
special mention for excellence in Eng
lish, shown in the entrance examina-
tons for Yale, held at Pauahi hall last
July. Mr.. Hedemann had special men
ton for similar examination in Ger
man at Cambridge. The results of the
Yale and Princeton preliminaries, held
at Punahou this term, have not yet
been received.
THE boarding department has been
prosperous, % persons having been ac-
cOmmOdated.
The Punahou Preparatory School,
under the management of Principal
French, has increased to an attend
ance never attained before. This is
the banner year of the school. The
necessity for a new building has al
ready been pointed out and plans are
now ready. The edifice should be fit
ted with all the latest appointments,
arrangements being made for manual
training here as well as at the college.
The kindergarten and primary depart
ments should be in a separate struct-
ure in another part of the grounds.
AS a minor suggestion, it is recon-
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raised over the Preparatory School
building every morning at 9 o'clock
and be taken down at the close Of
school.
There is urgent need both in the
Preparatory School and at Oahu Col
lege of a systematic course in manual
training. The plant should be, mex
pensive but the salary ought to be
large enough to obtain a competent
teacher. Wood work with few good
tools presents the cleaneSt and best
field BY such training children ac-
quire deXterity in the use of the hands
and develop their own capacity instead
of learning the mechanism of some
machine. Above all, it forms a desire
for honest work and has a wholesome
influence upon the mind and character.
From an estimate furnished by compe-
tent authority, an appropriation of ST.
500 is recommended.
THE eyesight of children often suf
fers permanent injury through improp-
er lighting of schOOlrOOms. The seats
should be so arranged that the light
comes as far as possible from behind
and over the left shoulder. The con-
slant presence of the old-fashiOned
blackboard, with the sharp contrast
delicate nerves Of the eye as discord-
ant sounds annoy the ear. The black
boards in Pauahi hall have been BAN
ished and in their place are dark
shades of the same tints that cover
the walls.
THE average age in June, 1899, of
the senior class was 20 years IL
months; junior class was 10 years /
month; middle class was IL years 10
months; sophomore class was Is years
II months; freshman class was 16
years.
1.-THE Damon prizes for excellence in
neutrality-suspicious. essays, de-
bates, etc.-have been awarded as fol-
lows:
First prize to Raymond Spalding.
Second prize to Abraham l.. Kaulu-
kou.
las Miss May Kluegel stood a frac-
ton of 1 per cent short of the second
place, a third prize has been awarded
her, given by the faculty.
Attention is called to the need OF
scholarships. Many deserving boys
and girls are kept from an education
by inability to pay the tuition fees.
Scholarships may be founded by the
payment to the treasurer of the sum Of