The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-09-06
PROGRESS
OF PUNAH0U
BrishtOutIook for
the College
Year.

"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 now students are from the
States, and they seem 20 be pleased with
the announcements OF courses contained
in the new catalogue. We have had very
encouraging recognition un The part of
Berkeley md Stanford, On the bass of
t..e organized courses Of study. and
We shall all .ry TO MAINTAIN nc adver-
tage thus gained by cor 'sl"It effort ard
methods throughout ;he school AT las.
the ground Is nrolion for the new Trepar-
atory building, to be located at Puma
hou. The building will be the most beau
tifu and best equipped Primary and
Grammar School building in the Islands.
1t Will accommodate, without crowding,
about 400 pupils, will have all the modern
conveniences for school work, including
domestic science, manual training, etc.
The work i'm domestic science and manual
training viii be carried on with tempo
rary equipment, however, as We hope in
another year to break ground for anoth-
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 500 to 1000. 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.
''The new teachers, Mr.. Bailey and
Miss Ridgway, have arrived, and they
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great enthusiasm. The outlook for ath-
letics is much brighter than We thought
it would be. New material is coming
in, and Mr.. Bailey comes to us fresh
from Varsity track work His ideas are
good and up-to-date, and his work with
the boys will be strong.
I'm 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 Punahou!"
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.
1t will be found instructive to peruse
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 and women,
as wei. as boys and girls, to become good
citizens. Perhaps the following passage,
taken from this book VII show hotter
than anything else what the aim Of the
institution is: oahu College .s Chris
t!an. though non-sectarian. school. While
the courses of study ar, 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 well to bear this passage in
mind while looking through the book. as
it will be seen from both the desecrip-
tion Of the courses of study and from
the general arrangements connected more
especially with the life itself, that this
idea j. the red thread running through
the whole plan.
After giving a list of the faculty, with
a short sketch of previous positions and
work OF each, very interesting histor-
ical sketch is given. covering the history
of the college from its very earliest days.
Tho beginning of this sketch, which gives
tho resolutions passed at the general
meeting of the Sandwich Islands Mission
Nay 18TH to June Sth lSil 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 1871.
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 n fund of nforma-
ton on many educational subjects, and
II viii be seen from it that the college is
fully on level with the best institutions
of its grade in the States.
The next c<apter is devoted to more
general information, the first section
treating of the character of the institu-
tion and giving an explanation of its aim,
as well with regard to the religious as
to the intellectual side. Thereupon fol-
10" S'a description of the college grounds.
the general surroundings of Punahou,
and the climate there. The college
baths art collection, scientific apparatus.
library, boarding department expenses,
scholar ships, etc, come next in the de-
scr!ption, and the catalogue closes with
a list giving the names of scholars. The