The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-07-18
OAHU'S NEW
PRESIDENT
A. r. Griffiths Is
Chosen for
Place.

when the new school year opens the
second week Of September there VIII be
in the chair OF the president new
man. one OF whom the trustees NJ the
institution expect great things At
thur r. Griflths. now Of 81. Georges d
School. Newport, r. l., accepted th' ]
call To the headShip OF .ue college b5 .
telegraph just before the departure Ct {
the China from San Francisco, his tel
epram being received by ". Il. Castle
and the facts being communicated 10
the trustees of the college yesterday.
The selection OF Ar. Griiiths comes
to the friends of Oahu College as a
great relief. for they are Impressed that
in the new president they have founu
the man they needed. The selection
was made only after personal Inter
views between the new official ana
Trustees Castle and Jones, who had
several conversations with him. They
: we're most pleasingly impressed, not
only with the appearance of the new
; man, but as well with his tact. Mr..
> Jones gathered The impression that Mr.
, Grifiths will be of great value To the
college by reason of his hnanclal apll-
ity and his supreme executive quail
/ ties. as shown in his previous expert ,
= ences
2 Mr.. Grihlths is a New Yorker and
= his education was begun at 81, Law
renee College, In that state. This Is
= co-educatiOnal school and the young
n man went through IT, taking his degree
i there in 1897. The next year he gave
to educational work, being assistant
principal of large co-educational
) school. The succeeding year he went
to Harvard, and there he made his
mark, entering the senior class direct
b, and taking his degree among the lead
=. ers of the class He made the very best
o impression upon his instructors and II
was from them that the most fatterinS
Ie letters concerning the young man were
l. received.
sr Dean Briggs especially spoke OF MT.
= Griniths as one Of the most promising
young men. saying to friends here that
u, h. considered that he would be the very
" man for the place, and that he could
~, not recommend him too highly. Profes-
~ sor Knowlton and the present Dean
N Hurlbut joined in the recommendation
nd ara paid high compliments to the abh-
u ity and scholarship of the new president
RS Of the college.
III Upon leaving Harvard Mr.. Griiiith'
le, Joined the staff OF instructors of the
No st. George school, and since that TIME
~ has been one of the best liked ah'
W most prominent of the men engage
~ there He has been instructor in Eng
,ot lish literature and history and has es
a. pecially eudeared himself to the y"uni
at men with whom he has had close iela
re; tions. He is an athlete and has foun'
this "A means of coming close to IN
m bows. St. Georges school is one of tn
to most popular of the many training
l., in East and /
an always filed with pupils. Its prncipa
dr. said to Mr. Castle that while he wou
as not think of putting the slightest bloc
the i'm the way of Mr.. Grifiths, as II
"s thought his abilities entitled him to
az a.. place at the head of a school, yet hi
In leaving st. Georges would be distlnt
the detriment to that institution.
ing The experience of Mr. Griiiths as as
sistant in a co-educational school make
ar his selection seem extremely httin
axe here. He is remarked for his eXecu
his tive ability and the capacity to hai
gin monize conflicting elements, as well q
.ri- his tact in dealing with situations like
and 10 arise in any large body of undC
nu- graduates. While the Oahu Cole :
are trustees were dealing with him oth'
our 60 -, -, ,n,sidarad bv mir
.ue and it was the attractive features
; ~ ~ the work here that finally won him
,taI the local college
yaI Mr. GrifIiths said that becau
and there was such an institution out he
not in the mid Pacific. with surroundin
bile which would call for the hardest wor
but at the same time gave promise
al such results, he would prefer this pla
MA to one which would offer no new pro
;ent lens or scope for original work. n
the Grifiiths Is not minister, but is Co
gregationalist. He was married durl
ad- the last year.
ESQ Mr. Grinlths is a man above the N
SUD dium height broad shouldered, wi
, on sandy b,ir and conplexion. of athle
,r,, 70 build and with a magnetic smile. !
~, age is somewhere between 80 and
ton years. He is making all arrangemeI
Ore TO reach Honolulu some time in Ausu
Sem so that he may be ready to secure so
lnds general acquaintance before the sen
ipon year opens.
E on Miss Lucy Adams, for some time p'
The instructor in lace making al the j
fol- mehameha Girls School, has been CHI
en- teacher of English and dean
women for Oahu College. Miss Adal
~ ,r prior TO taking up her work at Kan
tho hameha, was teacher At Miss 4
strs- ter's well known school at Farmingt
the Conn.
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