The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-15
PROGRESS OF
PUNAHOU.
Annual Report OF
Arthur Maxson
Smith.
THE WORK OF THE
YEAR REVIEWED
The Need of New Buildings for
Boys and Teachers Manual
Training Requirements.


the President, Arthur Maxson Smith, sub
mitted the following annual report:
To the Trustees of Oahu College, Gentle
men:
l have the honor to submit the follow
ing report for the year 1900-1901:
On assuming my duties last September
found several specific demands for re-
organization and expansion made by
actual conditions as well as by sus-
gestions from the Trustees and the
Faculty and from the report of retiring
President Hosmer. President Hosmers
report contained the following sug-
gestions: New kindergarten and Mem
orial' buildings and a Gymnasium; a
general campus plan; the reduction of
the course of study from five to four
years; the addition to the curriculum of
a college course; the establishment of
marine biological station; engineering
and manual training departments. From
the Faculty and Trustees came the re-
quest for new regulations governing the
organization and administration of the
college.
| Along the line of the foregoing sug
gestions l report the following progress
| for the year:
| No new buildings have been erected,
though plans for the proposed Prepara-
| tory building have been adopted, and
suggestions for a building TO accomE1o-
| date a Kindergarten and the work of the
music department have been placed be-
| fore the Trustees. The decision of the
| Trustees to locate the Preparatory build
/ ing at Punahou instead of Miller and
| Beretania streets seems wise from every
point of view save that of transportation,
and the operation, in the near future, of
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remove that objection.
! A general campus plan, utilizing the
| lower part of the campus for the Pri-
mary, Grammar and Academic grades,
and the upper portion. between Rocky
Hill and Manoa Road, for technical
| schools Gymnasium ard college build
ings, as future conditions may warrant
these, has been adopted by the Trustees.
The buildings most needed in the imme-
date future have been so located in the
proposed plan as to accommodate exist
| ing departments, i. e., the gymnasium,
the musical conservatory (and Kinder
garten), the manual training and engi-
neering building and the art building
have their proposed site immedia tely
above the present group of buildings,
since. however rapidly or slowly the in
stitution may develop, all departments,
from primary up to college, viii use
more or less these centrally located build
iings. Whether or not the present plan is
followed rigidly the campus development
of the institution should rigidly adhere
! to this principle.
The five years course of study has been
reduced to four years. Three courses of
study have been adopted, four years in
length and covering the ground pre-
paratory to college classical, literary and
scientific courses. In the construction OF
these courses several definite objects
were sought: (a) to make four years
course equal in quality and quantity to
the best secondary curricua of the
States: CD to make each course repre-
sent a certain general and practical
preparation for ordinary life; (c) to pro-
vide courses which should on the one
hand, meet fairly and fully the local con-
ditions peculiar to Hawaii. and on the
other hand. provide adequately for those
students who wish to prepare for college
work in the States. This has been ac-
complished by reducing the required sub
! jects to a respectable minimum and by
/ Offering certain electives TO fill out the
maximum amount necessary for gradua-
| ton. these electives following out the
parallel lines of local requirements and
| the entrance requirements of Mainland
| colleges. The course of study is thus. in
a sense, sui generiS, but is so precisely
as every secondary school course is pecu-
liar to itself in it's effort TO meet peculiar
! local conditions. In some respects. more
| over the course is ideal and meets fully
the goal toward which secondary schools
| generally are striving, namely, uniform
credit for all students doing a certain
quantity of work of certain quality.
The addition of two new teachers to the
regular teaching force of the Academy
has greatly facilitated the operation OF
the new course OF study. since it makes
EpoSsible the formation of limited num-
Der of specific classes for the benefit of
those preparing for colleges whose en-
trance requirements are not uniform.
The work is considerably crippled, how
ever, by the lack of special equipment
for certain technical courses provided for
in the curriculum.
Provision has been made for college
classes, should any desire to take the
work. 1t is found that about forty per
cent of the students in the Academy dc
not intend, for various reasons, to take
college work in the States, and from TINS
number there are many who want COZ
lege training. They must get il here OF
be deprived of it. When college courses
of a substantial and high order are es-
ltablished, more students will PROBABLY
take college work here than VIII go
AWAY Tor It. because, IN tue MS. pa
there are more students now IN the
school who would take college work and
cannot go to the States for 1t than there
Iare students who can go, and secondly,
because there is and will continue TO be
Ian immigration to Hawaii of class OF
ipeopIe possessing good intellectual abii-
ljty and ambition. but lacking the funds
necessary to go to college in the States
while their homes are in Hawaii With
out discouraging those who plan TO go te
the States. therefore, Oahu college
should provide college courses for those
who cannot go away. but who need an'
desire higher education. This provision
is made on small scale, for the com
ing year, and work Of this character VIII
be encouraged and developed as the com
munity demands it and is benefited b.
Tit.