The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-04
PROGRESS
Of PUNAHOO
Bright Outlook for
the College
Year.
GROUND BROKEN
FOR NEW BUILDING
The Athletic Privileges Will be
lncreased-More Public
Entertainments.

The outlook for our new year is very
good said President Smith of Oahu
College. There will be fifteen or twenty
new students, not counting the members
of the Preparatory graduating class,
and the indications are that we shall
have more students than We had last
year in every department Of the school.
Some of the new students are from the
States, and they seem to be pleased with
the announcements of courses contained
in the new catalogue. We have had very
encouraging recognition IN the part of
Berkeley and Stanford, on the basis of
tie re-organizcd courses of study, and
we shall all try to maintain Tic advar-
tage thus gained by con sistelr effort ard
methods throughout The school. at last
the ground is broken for the new Frepar-
atory building, to be located at Puma
hou. The building viii be the most beau
tiful and best equipped Primary and
Grammar School building in the Islands.
1t will accommodate, without crowding.
about 400 pupils, viii have all the modern
conveniences for school work including
domestic science, manual training, etc.
The work in domestic science and manual
training will be carried on with tempo
Irary equipment, however, We hope in
another year to break ground for anoth-
er building to accommodate this work
for the entire institution. The new Pre-
paratory building is to have, on the sec
ond floor a large assembly room, with
seating capacity of 600 to 1900. The con-
tractor is under agreement to finish the
building by the first of April, so we shall
probably be able TO use it for the last
term of the year.
1.-The new teachers, Mr.. Bailey and
Miss Ridgway have arrived and they
will doubtless undertake their work with
great enthusiasm. The outlook for ath-
letics is much brighter than we thought
it would be. New material is coming
from Varsity track work. His ideas are
good and up-to-date, and his work with
the boys will be strong.
In general, the work for the coming
year will possess many features that will
commend themselves to the public. The
newness of. the situation has somewhat
rubbed itself away, and we hope to be
free to do many things that lack of time
and strength made it necessary to leave
undone last year. More attention will be
given to public exercises, lectures. enter
tainments of wholesome sort, ETC.
But We DO need some new quarters
for boys and teachers at Punahoui'
The new Oahu College catalogue, which
has just been published, certainly de-
serves more than passing attention,
both because of the thorough and sys-
tematic form, in which exhaustive infor-
nation concerning this institution has
been given, and because of the neat and
attractive makeup of this booklet.
will he found iuStructiye RI Derusp
its pages to anyone who has especial
interest in Punahou, but not only this.
Anyone who is interested in the prob
lens of modern education will gain much
of value by ascertaining how Oahu Col
lege is training young men ard women,
as well as boys and girls. to become good
citizens. Perhaps the following passage,
taken from this book viii show better
than anything else what the aim of the
institution is: Oahu College IS Chris
tan, though non-sectarian, school. While
the courses of study are organized IN
accordance with the best educational
standards of the times, the chief aim of
the school is not intellectual attainment,
but rather character, of that type essen
TALLY demanded by the Christian Cos
pei
1t will be we'll to bear this passage In
mind while looking through the book, as
ton of the courses of study and from
the general arrangements connected more
especially with the life itself. that this
idea is the red thread running through
the whole plan.
After giving list of the faculty, with
a short sketch of previous positions ana
work of each, very interesting hlstor-
ical sketch is given. covering the history
of the college from its very earliest days.
The beginning of this sketch, which gives
the resolutions passed at the general
meeting Of the Sandwich Islands Mission
May 18th to June Sth, 1Sil, Is interesting.
The rest of it, which is an extract from
an address given by President Dole on
the occasion Of the dedication of Pauahi
Hall in 1896, gives the general outline OF
the history of the college since ISL
The conditions for admission and ex-
cerpts from the college statutes are here
after given. whereupon follows the pros
pectus of the courses of study. In this
chapter will be found a fund of informa-
ton on many educational subjects, and
it viii be seen from it that the college is