The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-10-30
TEACHING
HWAA||ANS
Kamehameha School
For Girls.
IN A FLOUR|SH|NC STATE
Unusually Large Number Of Intend
ing Pupils are Refused
Admission.
By Mrs. Weston Coyncy.
eu> Hp KAMEMAMEHA SCHOOL

T~ HE kAMEHAMEHA SCHOOL 10
Girls was never In n more flourish
ing condition than 1t is today. I
opened this term with Its fun complement
of students. Much to the regret OF tn
faculty an unusually large number o
applicants were refused admission, OWN,
to lack OF accommodation. In order t
receive these applicants 1t would becom
necessary to build an extension OF som,
scrt and that the trustees are not yet pre-
pared to undertake. Twelve pupils wer,
graduated last Commencement Day, an(
their places were ii.led. as usual, on th
opening of the first term. The school ac
commodities seventy five Hawaiian o
half-Hawai!an girls of twelve years an,
over. The ages of the pupils now com
pleting the course range from thirteen I,
twenty-one. Any girl. with even n trac,
OF Hawaiian blood in her veins. is eligibl,
for entrance to the Kamehameha School
The pupils come from Hawaii. Kauai
Maui and Oahu, as general thing; but
latterly there has been a fair spr!nkling
from the other Islands. The school is
known in the States and admired as n
purely Hawaiian institution. one of its
young women completes Normal course
In Milwaukee next June. She VIII then
return to Honolulu and teach.
MhhEOt VI FANtll i
The faculty embraces the following
eight well-known educators: Ida May
Pope, principal; Miss Il. McCracken ma =
tron; Miss +. N. Albright, English; Miss
Cora Il. Albright, history and reading;
Miss T. Lemon, mathematics and draw
ing; Miss N. Il. Forcyth, domestic arts
sewing etc; Miss s. l.. Byington music;
Miss j. C. Van Nostrand, science and
manual training; Miss Lydia Aholo, office
n OF NJ Mur l. af q
assistant; Miss Keoki. also matrons as
sistant: Miss Adams. lacemaking. This
year n workshop has been completed a1i
added to the manual training depart
nent II is n really royal workshop. for
1t is built of great solid blocks OF native
stone. ccmented. and has a concrete floor
and ceiling. The windows are wide and
high and simply screened by mosquito
bars, which enables the girls to accom-
plish their work in comfort. 1t is re-
freshingly cool. Altogether, II gives one
the impression of being IL model work
shop.
There are, In reality. three existing Ka-
mehameha Schools today. They are all
on large tract of land in Kapalama, two
miles from the postofiice; and they ex-
terd fer quite distance on either side of
the road.
Said Miss Ida NJ. Pope. principal OF the
Kamehameha School for Girls: These
S'ipois "Vit poSS.Dlt ny lllt VIII ol
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. Bcrnice
Pauahi Paki. the daughter of Paki and
the high chieftess Kon.a, was born De-
&C mber 10. 1881. She was educated in the
Royal School in Honolulu and was mar
rted to the Hon. C. II. Bishop, Collector
OF Customs, June S, 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. Tho plan. as she stated II, was to
provide first and chiefly good education
in the common English branches and also
instruction in morals and in such useful
knowledge as may tend to make good and
industrious men and women; and | de-
sire instruction in the higher branches to
be subsidiary to the foregoing Objects"
says tho will, How faithfully her wishes
have been carried out. is best eXemplifed
b. personal visit TO this admirable In
stitution.
The school was opened on December 49,
1894. The building Is majestic and impos-
ing. INTELLECTUALLY. II Is Moorish in
conception. Tho double lana!s and arch
ways contribute n constant current OF
air throughout both corridors and class
rooms and help to shield from the blind
ing tropical sun. The location Is health
full, sanitary and cool The view from
the upper fundamentally the lace-room
is enhancing. The ocean lies before you
IA long sweep out to sea-and the ship
ping in the haIbor is visible to the naked |
eye. No glass is necessary. unless one be
Turning In II half circle, you
see spread out II panorama of sea, noun .
tain, highland and lowland, With the
houses dottlng II here and there. Dia- |
nond Head. the Punchbowl and Mt, Tan
t6lus all pass in review before you And
the breezes that blow straight from the
glorious ocean. You seem almost to smell
the clean salt air!
OBJECT OF THE SCHOOL.
1.-THE object of the school," | am quot !
Ing Miss Pope. els to furnish a carefully
arranged. practical education 10 Hawaii
an girls of thirteen years or over, quail |
Tying them for service at home, for wage |
In some handicraft. or as teach |
srs in the Government schools. The num- |
Der OF pupils is limited to eighty The tut |
ton Is nifty dollars year of forty weeks |
two terms OF twenty weeks each), A |
limited number OF fun scholarships Is
provided by the will of BerniCo Pauahi |
Bishop and Of half scholarships by the
:. n. Bishop Trust
"The school has offered two courses
IN English and a Normal course, The
5Chool-room work includes drill In the
'Gmmrn branches, algebra, Hawaiian ana
general history, literature, elementary
science, embracing physiology, botany, go-
ology, chemistry and physics.
In the Normal work the pupils have
praeueed In the preparatory schools tney
have reviewed the work of the previous
grade, nave studied methods, current
avents, school management the history ~
education, ANA psychology, The school
grade has been advanced one year and the
Normal course has been discontinued for
The present. The work Is specialized and
allows three and a half hours daily Tor
schOol-Toom work which is supplemented
~ graded eouTsea Ia sewing, dfossmakinR,
eeokinE laundering and hospital prao,
Iice.
"nardaninB IL a now venture Il 10
hoped that department VI horticulture Il
sill DO established, in nya yraFs ihsTn
Ass been but = limited area " ihe rock
ribhed aamvhkmehR eaTth cleared foT