The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-03
COLLEGE IS
NOT NEEDED
Oahu's Transformation
lmpractiCabIe.
NOT ENOUGH STUDENTS
Professor M. M. Scott Takes No
Stock in Proposed Plan
for Expansion.
NRESIDENT SMITHS proposed

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hou with curriculum eQualling
in breadth and class of studies the
great colleges of the Mainland. is not
thought we'll of by the majority of
IHonolnlans
The students of Punahou are oppos-
ed to the idea, it is said. Professor
NJ. NJ Scott, principal of the High
School. was asked as representative
public school teacher, what he thought
OF the plan
Il think it is impracticable." said
Professor Scott We cannot have col
lleges without students. Carriages
without horses, | grant you, but not
Ischolarless schools. | have heard the
scheme for a university for Hawaii
discussed before now, and I have never
considered. it feasible.
The census just finished gives Ha-
waii 900 people. OF these, $4,000
are Japanese. | don't know the exact
number, but $4,000 is fair estimate
These are chiefly males without
children, and even their few children
must be counted out as far as second
ary or higher education is concerned.
Count out Is, 600 or 10000 Chinese who
are without children, and who, also,
cut only a trifiing figure in the matter
of higher education Ten thousand or
| u 900 Portuguese OF the population,
are poor, and when their children are
able to read and write and cipher a
little they are usually compelled by
necessity to put them at work.
| For high school purposes We can
count on a total of 10000 in Hawaii,
which Is the population of a small
town in the United States. Now, what
about a college with only that to draw
from? AS to practical results, all our
schools have been conducted in the
English language for the past fifteen
years. Yet Punahou and the High
School are the only schools that dc
secondary work The total in botr
schools is about IT'S pupils. In the
High School there are eighty studying
now. and at Punahou between ninety
and one hundred. Many of these il
mental ability should not be in the
High School course. In Boston, ar
old city and one of traditional scholas
tic attainment, only seven per cent o
those entering the public schools arr
graduated from the High School
There being now with the best effor
only IT'S in all Hawaii in secondary
studies. it seems plain that it would
be impossible to prepare more thar
fifteen or twenty pupils year to pas
an examination and take up college
work
, 1T has been urged that pupils will
, come here from the Mainland. VIII.
] should they come here? If the climat
, in the East Is severe, as ii is, boy
and girls of delicate constitutions viii
go TO Berkeley and Stanford. or T.
Southern California, where the climat
is not severe, and yet is bracing an
where tuition, board, and all necessi
ties and luXuries are much cheape
: than here.
: With the large equipment neces
) sary for a college, the paid teacher
, required to carry on college work i
o the different courses, it would take pei
= haps ten times as much money [
: conduct the institution here as
would cost to send away the student
TO any of the best universities in tn
- United States. Those able to sen
z their sons and daughters to a colleg
, want them to go to the Mainland c
p abroad. They want them to get thu
larger view of the outer world whic
. comes in the life at any of the mas
, nificent institutions of the Unite
, States and Europe. In the past thes
sons and daughters of Hawaii hay
been sent away. and they will be i
the future
Consult the feelings of the student
z themselves. They do not want to fiji
, ISL their education here They wal
p to see something They want to go
the big colleges where they will me-
. thousands of fellow students from a
, parts of the world. Many Of the
, also desire an alma mater who's
standing, size and fame, will give ad,
ed weight to their degrees.
For long time to come the bul
OF the population here must be of II
z lower order whose children will n,
, have the money or the aptitude
y brain power for college education.
would be gratifying. no doubt. to Fl
@ wallis pride to have a college here. b
= the facts do not warrant a college no
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