The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-18
THE OAHU
COLLEGE
The New York Suns
Compliments.
WORK OF MISSIONARIES
Much Larger Endowment Needed to
Enable it TO Keep Pace
With Hawaii.

The New York sun has the following
editorial article:
We have before us a catalogue Of Oahu
College for the current academical year
THIS institution which is situated about
two miles east OF Honolulu. undertakes to
supplement the means OF elementary in
structon provided in the Hawaiian ISL
ands by offering facilities for acquiring
a grade of education about half way be-
tween that obtainable at classical or So
called high" schools and colleges in the
United States.
The germ of Oahu College the Oldest
academic institution in the Pacific was
the gift of the estate of Punahou made
in 1929 to a we'll known American mis-
sionary, the Rev. Hiram Bingham by
Bcki, high chief, afterward governor of
the Island of Oahu. Some time before 1910.
when Mr.. Bingham returned to United
States, he offered the Punahou estate to
the American mission the best location
TO- a school. and in 1871 an appropriation
was voted for buildings. At first provi-
sion was made only for the children of
missionaries, but during the second year
other children were admitted As the in
stitution grew. 1t became more national
! in its character, and in June, 1S49, re-
Iceived a charter from the Hawaiian Gov
eminent under the name of Punahou
School. The rapid development of Cali
fornia, Australia and New Zealand in
creased the commercial Importance of the
Hawaiian Islands, and, in order to keep
abreast with the progress attained in
other directions it was deemed best that
the school should be placed on broader
and more permanent basis. Accordingly.
in 1853 1t secured from the government a
second charter under the title of Oahu
College
The institution is supported. aside from
a nominal charge of S32 per year of three
terms to each student, by an endowment
which started in 1856 and now
amounts to nearly half million dollars.
Some thirty scholarships have been es-
tablished, the purpose of which is to re-
/ lieve the recipients from the payment of
/ fees for tuition Associated with Oahu
College is the Punahou Preparatory
School, the curriculum of which covers
/ eight years. and includes a training in
English grammar and composition. in
geography and history, in arithmetic and
and also in the rudiments of Latin and
French. This preparatory school has now
3Ol pupils
| In the college proper there are 145 pupils
distributed in three divisions, according
! to the course of study pursued. There
| is classical, an English or scientific and
a business curriculum. We should here
ncte that this institution is organized on
| the principle of the coeducation of the
sexes. Many feminine names will be
found in the catalogue of the students,
and also in the list of instructors. Pass
ing to the requirements for admission, we
observe that those who desire to enter the
classical course must be prepared to read
simple Latin prose. and must also pass
satisfactory examinations in arithmetic,
algebra Gas far as quadratic equations).
geography. English grammar and COM
position. the history of the United States
lane Of the Hawaiian people, in spelling,
reading and writing.
! In the classical course a student Is eX-
lpected to study five years, a so-called
middle" class being interposed between
THE sophomore and junior classes. In the
Latin department of the classical school
n student must read seven books OF
Caesars Gallo War seven orations OF
/ Cicero. the "Eclogues" of Virgil and siI