The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-14
DR.. SMITH
ARRIVES
The New President of
Oahu College.
GUEST OF THE GOVERNOR
Something About Improvements and
in Regard to New leach
ers Engaged.

Among the passengers by the China
DR.. Arthur Maxson Smith, of whom
sketch was given in our issue of Aug.
20. The educator was accompanied by
Mrs. Smith, a Wellesley graduate, a
lady of rare charm, their two little
sons, and Miss Cameron. DR.. and Mrs.
Smith are the guests of Governor and |
Mrs. Dole at present.
DR.. Smith comes from the University |
of Chicago where he has completed a /
post graduate course. As the results
of his labors there he carries the de-
grees of Doctor of Philosophy and Mas
ter of Arts. Unless appearances are |
totally wrong, DR.. Smith is the man to
take up the work at Punahou and make
the school all that is desired. The time
seems to have arrived when this COM
munity is ready for something more
than college preparatory work in the
Island schools. There are young men
and young women here who can not
afford to go to the States or Europe for
the higher education of the colleges
and the time is ripe for giving them the
| opportunity at home which otherwise
they must forego. For sometime the
! Trustees have contemplated Offering
| advanced work, and it is partly for
this that Mr.. Smith was selected.
The new president will make no radi-
cal changes in the school work for the
present. He intends to keep pace, how
ever, with the line of educational work
pursued in a growing city. Besides
providing higher courses he will look
after a better system of primary in
struction. A kindergarten is proposed
as a new feature at no distant date.
This will be under the direction of
Miss C. H. Uecke, who also came by
the China.
DR.. Harper of the University of Chi
cago recommended DR.. Smith to the
Trustees of Oahu College, vouching for
him all the attributes for a successful
head of it's educational work. He came
originally from California, taking his
first collegiate degree at Pomona Col
lege, and two years later graduated
from the divinity school OF the Univer-
sity of Chicago. For two years he was
pastor of the Baptist Church at Mar
shall, Mich.
MORE INSTRUCTORS FOR PUMA
HOU.
AS the engagements of several of the
instructors at Oahu College expired
with Mr. Hosmer's resignation, a num-
Der of new teachers join the faculty
with a new president. BY the China,
the following teachers arrived: Pro-
fessor Ballaseyns, Mr.. Bivins, Miss
Johnson, Miss Uecke and Mrs. Congdon.
The latter will be the matron of the
college.
Professor Ballaseyns is a native of
Stettin, Prussia, where he was educat-
ed. Among his music teachers was the
well known DR.. Carl Loewe. Coming
of nautical family he followed the
sea at first, and became lieutenant in
the German navy. By nature, however,
he was musician and devoted hlfiself
to the art, abandoning the sea for that
, profession. From 1879 to 1882 he pur-
sued his studies in Hamburg, acquiring
great proficiency on the piano under
Carl Won Hotten and others. At the
same time he became q most accom-
plished organist, and studied vocal mu-
sic under Dr. Franz Krucke, the cele-
brated baritone of the Grand Opera.
In 1883 he came to the United States
where he has since followed his profess
sion with great success. While being a
most artistic performer he is at the
same time said to be a man of good
executive capacity and may be expect
ed to have much success in his new
+, field. Honolulu may look forward to
some rare treats in the line of music
the coming season. With Professor
Ballaseyns are his wife and two young
daughters.
Mr.. Burns comes to take charge of
the mathematical work at the college.
He brings a fine record for solid and
successful work in the Chicago High
. School where he has held his position
because of his excellence in that work,
for upon the least sign of inability
hundreds of other competent teachers
stood ready to take the places.
Miss Helene V. Johnson is from the
b Chicago Art Institute where she stands
\ well for painstaking work. She has
also done much work in New York
with special artists and on account OF
the excellence of her work she was
! qualified to supervise art work in the
| public schools of Chicago. For several
] years she gave art instruction in Colo
RADIO. At Punahou she will endeavol
to inculcate love of art for it's use as
. an expression of character, and will
lecture on the subject in all it's branch
, es. She will teach art as one means o.
the best individual expression rather
than to obtain a mere technical per
lection.
Miss Clara Uecke will take charge o
the Kindergarten department, which
. the Trustees are to establish in re
Spouse to many earnest requests. From
training with Mrs. Putnam in thu
! Chicago Froebel Association, where sh
had both graduate and post graduate
\ courses, she has risen to a high place Il
her profession and has had charge o
both public and private kindergartens
Honolulu will find in Miss Uecke NOR
than successful Kindergarten. Sh
has been closely identified with tn
progressive intellectual life of the west
ern metropolis. She took an active par
in the work of tho Ch;cop o Kipderpar