The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-10-17
PU|A|AH0U IS
FAVORED
New College Buildings
There.
NOT FINALLY DECIDED YET
Oahu Trustees Believe Miller Street
Grounds Not as Well
Adapted.

Ionday afternoon and discussed the
question Of erecting new buildings at
for the Preparatory School
instead of building on the premises
,wned by the college, on the corner OF
Miller and Beretania streets.
An Advertiser reporter interviewed
Or. Smith yesterday. He said; The
board seems to be strongly inclined to
build at Punahou, and unless some
strong argument in favor of Miller
street is advanced it is probable that
the trustees will decide in favor of
Punahou at their next meeting.
The question has been before the
trustees for some time, and has been
discussed at the last three meetings OF
the board. At our meeting last Mon
day afternoon nearly the entire time
was given TO a consideration of the rel
ative claims of Punahou and the Miller
street property. The discussion natu-
rally fell under several distinct heads.
SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT.
Within the hast ten years educational
metE ave developed most rapidly
alnl a., line of Improvement of build |
ings srennds. furnishing and dec
oratien Parents and teachers have
come to see clearly that the school
grounds, buildings, and the schoolroom
the environment to which the child
/ is sent for the express purpose of cul-
tnre-should by all means be as beau
/ tiful as the home. One standard Of
environment for the home, and lower
standard for the school, is glaring
Inconsistency that enormously cuts
down the child.s opportunity for deyel-
iopment, and in like measure the teach
ler'a noWpr IN adn tnOrOuQhly
modern building. err group of buildings,
might be erected on the Miller street
property, and the grounds might be
lcultivated and decorated according to
laestttetic and ped2 gogic ideas. The To-
cality. however, will never be as at
tractive and wholesome as Punahou.
" Business houses. sights and sounds, If
not ssdors, will more and more crowd
residences out OF that portion of the
city. A child cannot develop as good
ltone of character in that environment
as he can at PunahOu.
CENT AND ORGANI-
ZATION.
1T its of the greateSt~importance that
1.-THE entire equipment of the institution
'shoul6 be so located and organized that
, the various departments, and the diff
ferent divisions I'm any given depart
ment, may be a basis of practical
co-operation. Laboratories. libraries
manual training equipment, gymna-
SUM, ell that gees 80 make a school
complete, would have to be duplicated
in SO far as the same apparatus could
; be used by the two schools. if the pre-
: paratory were located at Miller stfeet
II the new equipment were placed at
Punahou the college might thus save
the expenditure of many thousands of
dollars Again. the practical co-opera-
ton of teachers doing work in a given
subject. a, cooperation absolutely
necessary to the highest degree of ef-
ficiency, would be made impossible by
the separation of the two schools by so
great distance. While the same
methods are not applicable alike to
primary and secondary and college
work. and while teacher fitted to do
one grade of work, is often unable to
do either a higher or lower grade at
the same time by being sensible of the
necessary solidarity and continuity of
/ work i'm a given subject, and by having
the opportunity to observe methods
pursued in different grades and class
rooms. the teacher obtains wealth of
suggestions Of great value to his own
work. For the sake OF this practical
lco-operation and Interchange of ideas
IL would be better TO locate the pre-
paratory school at Punahou
BUILDING FUNDS AND INCOME.
"The present quarters of the prepara-
tory school are entirely inadequate.
t1uI WITHOUT Int rttc VI SViilt VI itS
property, or an unexpected gift from its
friends, the college cannot erect new
buildings this year. If the Miller street
property is used for building purposes
we would be deprived of the use of the
Investment, and the Income from the
property. If the property should De
sold or IL il could be used as basis of
Income we could see our way to under
taking work on new buildings at once
This item amounts to thousands OF dol
lars, and is naturally most 1orclDle
argument for building on our ample
and beautiful grounds at Punahou In
stead of using valuable business prop
erty for this purpose.
CENTRALITY OF LOCATION.
Il when the Miller street property was
purchased for school grounds 1t was
chosen particularly on account OF its
central location. Since the purchase Of
the ground, however, the population has
either shifted or expanded In the direc-
ton of Punahou to such an extent that
at present there is very little difference
between Miller street and Punahou for
the patrons of the school. At the be-
ginning of this school year 1s2 pupils
were enrolled in the preparatory school.
Figured by air line, exact center for
these pupils would be point near the
corner of Lunalilo and Victoria streets.
That is, Punahou Is trifle over a quar-
ter of a mile, or exactly 1929 of a mile,
farther from these pupils than is Miller
street. This distance hardly seems
worth considering in view of the other
arguments in favor of Punahou. More
over. there Is more unoccupied building
ground eastward from the center Of the
city than seems to be available in any
other given direction. 1t is safe to say.
therefore, that the center for school
population will not move farther west
ward. To figure distances by air line
Is of course more or less inexact, since
pupils never go to school by air line,
but IL the exact routes of the children
were known. Ii Is not probable that the
results Of the computation would be
changed one way or the other by more
than ona-fentb of mile