The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-07
.HOSMER ON
PUNAHOU
Report Of the Outgoing
| President.
OAHU COLLEGE AFFAIRS
Fifty thousand Dollars Needed for
an Athletic Outfit Other
Recommendations.

Il SOHcSc u Tic trustees Oh the 1nStltu-
i ton. Mr.. Hosmer leaves to-day for
years absence on the Mainland and In
Europe:
i In spite of the interruption caused by
the visitation of the bubonic plague
| during the winter term, the college
and preparatory school have enrolled
this year the largest numbers in the
history of each institution, there being
one hundred and forty-five students
at the college and three hundred in the
/ preparatory school.-a total of four
hundred and forty-five.
4 The departments at the college have
never been in better condition and the
work of the faculty has been thorough
and of a high order.
i In my last annual report attention
was called to the need of a gymnasium
and physical training department.
In this connection let it be remarked
that the Importance of athletics should
not be moderated. This branch holds
a very considerable place in a COM
! plete education. The wise supervision
! of the physical development of Amer
lean students of today is making a
more stalwart race. The influence Of
athletics is not alone physical; it is
system that seeks relief in excess. A
healthy body is a. favorable condition
for sound morality.
Athletic sports sensibly conducted.
reduce discipline, so-called, to mini
mum. Youthful activities must have
an outlet and for this reason outdoor
sports have been constantly encourag-
ed by the administration during the
last ten years. But more scientific eff
fort should be put forth in this direc-
I ton. The sum Of fifty thousand dol
! lars is needed for this department,
& twenty thousand dollars for
building with equipment and twenty
3 five thousand dollars for an endow-
Z ment to pay the salary of the director.
: During the past decade several new
3 departments have been founded and
the standard has been continually rails
3 ed Algebra, Latin and French have
been added to the preparatory school
curriculum and the requisites for adj
3 mission to the college have been in
: creased.
This curriculum should be supple
mented by College Course,
3 comprising the studies of the freshman
3 year preparatory to the degree of
Z bachelor of ants i'm American univer-
sites. Indeed a large proportion of
3 this work is already accomplished in
5 Oahu College. Should this course Of
study be adopted graduating classes
Z would be larger and the advanced work
would be stimulated. An additional
. certificate or diploma might be given
: to those completing the college course
3 offered.
In discussing the development of Pu-
3 nahou, local requirements must always
3 be considered.
: In addition to the need of physical
|: training, already alluded TO, the teach
z ing of agricultural chemistry should
Z grow into strong agricultural depart
: ment, when an increased endowment
Z renders it possible.
3 The scientific departments at pres
2 ent overloaded. Besides classes In
3 chemistry, the instructor is obliged to
z teach at different times during the
3 year fas scheduled physiology, ply
: Biography, biology. physics astronomy,
!. botany, and geology. An assistant
: ought to be employed that the head OF
j; the department may devote his time
3 to chemistry alone. Although we offer
: today an advanced course, including
3 analysis OF soils, polarization of sugar,
I ETC., yet there is ample room for growth
3 along this line because our local needs
: would seem to demand it.
3 In connection with the study of bio
z logy, marine station-so often dis
Z cussed-might be conducted. Perhaps
!: no other place in the world affords bet
z ter facilities for the study of marine
& life than these Islands. Should such a
8 department be in time connected with
: our course Of study. students would be
3 attracted from all parts of the globe.
!. A brief course in trigonometry and
& surveying is now offered but it is hoped
z that an engineering department may
8 sometime be established.
3 The business department is today de-
!. servedly popular because it is highly
9 useful to the community Here young
: men and young women are laugh. the
z elements of bookkeeping and CONNER
3 cial law and thorough course is given
g in typewriting and shorthand. AS this
z department is rapidly increasing in
!: numbers. the time has come when
e more prominence must be given to it
s and another teacher be employed.
g Aside from physical Instruction. Pu-
Il nahou's greatest immediate need seems
q to be course in manual training both
8 in the college and at the preparatory
q school. 1t is not the teaching of some
% particular trade that is advocated blu,
- the effective control of the physical
q energy for certain results. The design
S should be instruction rather than pro.
g duction. The education of the mind
$ the development of the body, and the
. use of the hands should all be brought
g into one accord.
& The pioneer work done at the college
g during the past few years in caring
& for the eyesight Of the0tudents, shoult
be continued and it is hoped that II
e the new preparatory edifice the anti
g quated blackboard will be banisheC
g and, as in Pauahi Hall, there will b.
substituted dark shades of the sam,
8 tints that prevail in the room. Olive
g green walls with dark olive dado and
g pale pink sky, seem to present tn,
most favorable conditions. Headaches
- are less frequent among students Il
Is such surroundings