The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-27
TEACHING !
AWAA||ANS
kamehameha School
For Girls.
IN 4 FloURIsHINc STATE
unusually Large Number of Intend.
ing Pupils srs Refused (;
Admission.


eiris was never In n more flourish
ins cond.u ton than II is today. IL
opened this term with its fun comp.ement
OF students. Much to the regret of the
iacuity, an unusually large number of
spphcants were refused admission. owing
TO lack of accommodation. In order to
receive these applicants II would become
necessary to build an extension of some
SORT and that the trustees are not vet pre-
pared to undertake. Twelve pupils were
graduated last commencement pay. and
their places were filed. as usual. on the.
opening OF the first term. The school ac-
commodities seventy-five Hawaiian or
half-Hawaiian girls of twelve years and
over. The ages of the pupils now COM
pieung the course range from thirteen to
twenty-one. Any girl. with even a trace
o. Hawaiian blood IN. her veins. is eligible
Tor entrance to the Kamehameha School.
The pupils come from Hawaii. Kauai.
Maui and Oahu. as a general thing: but
latteriy there has been fair sprfnkling
rom the other Islands. The school is
known In the States and admired as
purely Hawaiian Institution. One of its
young women completes a Normal course
IN Milwaukee next June. She will then
return to Honolulu and teach.
MAKEUP OF FACULTY.
The faculty embraces the following
eight well-known educators: Ida May
Pope, principal; Miss Il. McCracken. ma
iron; Miss +. N Albright. English: Miss
Cora IL. Albright. history and reading
Mss t. Lemon, mathematics and draw
ing; Miss ~. u. Forcyth. domestic arts,
sewing, etc; Miss s. l.. Byington music:
Miss j. G. Van Nostrand, science and
manual training: Miss Lydia Aholo, office
assistant; Miss Mary Kinney, matrons
ASSISTANT Miss Keoki. also matron's as
sistant: Miss Adams. lacemaking. This
yfar workshop has been completed alI
sided to the manual training depart
nent. IL Is a really royal workshop. for
IL In built OF great solid blocks of native
stone. cemented. and has a concrete floor
and ceiling. The windows are wide and
nigh and simply screened by mosquito
bars, which enables the girls to accom-
plish their work in comfort II is re-
freshingiy cool Altogether. IL gives one
the Impression OF being a model work
shop.
There are. In reality. three existing Ka-
nehameha Schools today. They are all
on a large tract OF land in Kapalama. two
miles from the postoffice: and they ex-
terd fer quite a distance on either side of
the road
Said Miss Ida NJ. Pope principal of the
kamehamsha School for Girls: These
schools we're made possible fyy the will of
Bernice Pauahi Bishop. n native princess.
the last Of the line of Kamehameha, who
bequeathed her estate TO establish and
maintain schools for her people. Bernice
Pauahi Paki, the daughter OF Paki and
the high chieftess Konia, was born De
csmber 10. 1891 She was educated In the
Royal School In Honolulu and was mar
ried to the Hon. G. r. Bishop Collector
of Customs, June 3, 1850.
MRS. BISHOPS WILL.
by her will her estate was placed In
the charge Of FIVE trustees to establish
two schools. one for boys and one for
girls. The plan. a. she stated IL. was 10
provide first and chiefly a good education
tn the common English branches and also
Instruction In morals and In such useful
az may tend to make good and
men and women and / 1e-
sire instruction in the higher branches 70
be subsidiary to the foregoing Objects +"
says the WILL How faithfully her wishes
have been carried out. j. best exempl!fed
b. a personal visit 20 this adniirabIc Tn
stitution.
! The school was opened on Decefnbe.' 80
r9a. The building Is majestic and impos-
mig. Architecturally. IL Is Moorish In
conception. The double Iana,s and arch
ways contribute constant current OF
air throughout both corridors and class
re onns and help to shield from the blind
ing tropical sun. The location is health
ful, sanitary and cool The view from
the upper Fundamentally the lace-room
is enhancing. The ocean lies before you
"a long sweep out 70 sea-and the ship
ping IN the mar Dor Is VS. BILE to the naked
eye. No glass Is necessary. unless one be
ne arsighted. Turning in a half circle. you
see spread out panorama Of sea. noun
tain. highland and lowland, with the
houses dottiug ~ here and there Dia-
mond Head. the Punchbowl and Mt. Tan
tslus all pass in review before you. And
the breezes that blow straight from the
glorious oCesn! You seem almost to smell
tho clean salt air
OBJECT or TIE SCHOOL.
''The object OF the school," / am quot
Ing Miss Pope. "is 20 furnish "A carefully
arranged. practical education TO Hawaii
an girls OF thirteen years or over. quail
tying them for service az home. for wage
earning In some handicraft. or as teach
srs In the Government schools. The NUM-
Der OF pupils - limited TO e'ghtv. The tut
ton Is fifty dollars n year Of fortv weeks
two terms Of twenty weeks each).
limited number OF fun schc larships Is
provided by the will of Bernice PaUahi
Bishop and Of balf scholarships by the
e. r.. Bishop Trust.
The school has offered two courses
an English and a Normal course. TIE
school-room work includes drill In the
common branches, algebra. Hawaiian and
general history. literature, elementary
science. embracing physiology. botany, 20
oioRy. chemistry and physics.
I'm the Normal work the pupils have
practiced In the preparatory school; they
have reviewed the work OF the previous
grade. have studied methods. current
events, school mana gement. tho history of
and Psychology. The schooi
grade has been advanced one year and me
course has teeTi discontinued for
he present. The work Is specialized and
allows three and half hours da'ly TOT
schooI-rocrr work. which IL supplemented
BY graded courses In sewing. dressmaking,
cooking. laundering and hospital prac-
tee.
sT,arden,nr II n new venture. II Is