The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-12-04
COLLEGE J S
Nut Ne fDED
0ahu's Transf ormation
Impractlc able.
NOT ENOUGH STUDENTS
Professor N. N. Scott kes Mo
Stuck I" P'opostd Pan
tor Expansion.
SMITHS rroros.,

hoh W'lh y c"ffIcuIuA oqua.llng
in breaulh AID Caass OF stua,s, The
great cCI<ges OF the MaiA4aAu. Is NOT
Thought well or by Lac naIori.y of
HuAom.aus.
Inc students of Punahou are oppos-
ed 10 the iuel, 1t is SAID Professor
Nj. Nj. scott, p.lucipal or the High
School, was asked as a rep. esent. tive
pubic school teache., " hat he thought
of the pan.
Il think It is imprac ,icab.e," said
Professor Scott. I'VE cannot have col
lsges without students. Carriages
without horses, grant you, but not
schoiarless schools. | have head the
scheme for university for Hawaii
discussed before now. and nave never
considered it feasible.
THE census inst finished gives Ha-
wall $4,000 people. OF these, $4,000
are japanese. | don't know the exact
number, but 10000 is a fair estimate.
These are chiefly males without
children, AID even their lew ch ldrer
must be counted out as far as second
airy or higher education is concerned.
Count out $4,000 or 10000 Chinese who
are without children, and who. also..
cut only q trifling figure in the matter
$4,000 Portuguese of the population.
are poor, and when their children a 9
able to read and write and cipher a
little they ale usually compelled by
necessity to put them at work. o.
For high school purposes We can
count on a total of 10 900 in Hawaii,
which is the population of small
town in the United States, Now, what
about college with only that to draw
from? AS to practical results, all our
schools have heen conducted in the
English language for the past fifteen
years. Yet Punahon and the High
School are the only schools that &c,
secondary work The total in both
schools is about ITS pupils. In the
High School there are eighty studyiug
now, and at Punahou b. tween ninety
and one hun dred, Many Of these in
mental ability should not be in the,
High School course. In Boston, an,
old city and one of trad tional scholas-
tic attainment. only seven pr cent OF
those entering the pubic $, hools are
graduated Fl ON the II 9Th School.
There being now tn the be effort
only It's in all Hawai- in secondary
studies, 1t seems plain that it would
ne impossible 10 prepare more than
ilIteen or twenty pupils a year to pass
an examination. and take up college "A
work r..
1t has been urged that pupils viii
come here from the Maitland Why
'hculd they G. me he @? If the climate
n the East Is severe. as it is, boys
md girls of delicate constitutions will
70 to Berkeley and Stanford, or to
southern Cali ornia whe the china q
S not severe, ard yet is brac'ng. and
where tuition, board, ard all necessi-
les and luNEries are much cheaper
han here
With the large equipment necev-
airy for a college, the paid teachers
equlred to carry on college work In
ne dl1e ent courses, t would take per-
aps ten times as mu&n money to
ondnct the institution here as It
'onld cost to send away the students
. any OF the best universities in the
nlted states Those able to send
leir sons ard daughters II college
ant them to 20 to the Mairland or
broad. They want them TO ret that
rger view of the outer world which
1mes In the lie at any Of the mag
Ihcent institutions of the Urited
-ates ard Europe. in the past these
ms ard daughters of Hawai- have -
zen sent away, and they will be in -
e future ~ ,,
Consult the feelings OF the students
emsP'ves. They do not wart to fin,
a their education here. They wat
see something. They want TO 90 to
2 big rolYe"es whe they wi meet
1rs"Hds cf fe'lcw students rr-m all
rts OF the world Many Of them
y desire an anna meter whose
ndirV. SIZE ord fame, will give add
weight TO their degrees.
For a long tine to come the bulk
the ponmla'.'cn here mrst be NJ the
yer order who's, children will nnt
re the mo"ev ~ the ATTITUDE or
4" nower ~" coll ve e'uca ion. II
~ b. ""'t''v'"o M DOT 20 Ha-
'Ps rrido to have n CO. 'e"e here but
f'"t- d. -ot warrant so"ege now,
In the 'rdef7i'" future"
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