The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-16
OAHU'S NEW
PRESIDENT.
A. F. GriffitIns Is
Chosen for
Place.
TO CONE BEFORE
NEW SCHOOL YEAR
Has Had Wide Experience and
Brings to School Much Val
liable knowledge.

When the new school year opens the
second week OF September there VIII De
N The chair of the president new
man one Of whom TIA trustees Of the
institution expect great things Ar
thur ?. Grifiths. nov OF St. George
school. Newport, r L accepted the
call 70 the headship Of he college by
telegraph lust before the dapartur- Ct
the China fron san Francisco, his TEL
esram being received BY w r. Castle
and the facts being communicated ID
-he trustees Of the college yesterday
The selection % Mr. Grifhths comes
20 the friends of I)zfu College as d
great relief, for they are Impressed tIlAI
in the new president they have FOUND
The man they needed. The selection
vas made only after personal inter
views between tia new official and
Trustees Castle and Jones, who had
several conversations with him They
were most pleasiugly impressed, not
only with the appearance o. the new
man. but as vel With his tact M
Jones gathered the Impression that MI.
Grifiiths VIII be OF great value To the
college by reason Of his financial abil-
ity and his supreme executive quail
lies. as shown IN MS previous expert
ences.
Mr.. Griffiths Is a New Yorker and
his education was begun at St Law
renee College, IN THAI state This IS
co-educationaI school and the young
man went through il, taking his degree
there in 1897 The next year he gave
to educational wU-z, being assistant
principal OF a large co-educational
school. The. succeeding year ne went
to Harvard and there he made his
mark. entering the senior class direct
and taking his degree among the lead
ers Of the class. He made the very best
impression upon his instructors and ii
was from them sl1at the most fiattering
letters concerning the young man were
received.
Dean Briggs especially spoke Of Mr..
Griffiths as one Of me most promising
young men. saying to friends here that
b, considered that he would be the very
man for the place. and that he could
not recommend him too highly. Profess
scr Knowlton and the present Dean
Hurlbut joined IN the recommendation
ara paid high compliments to the apll-
itv and scholarship OF the new president
of the college
Upon leaving Hazard Mr. Grsffiths
Joined the staff Of instructors CT the
ST George school. and since that time
has been one Of the best liked and
most prominent Of the men engaged
there He has been instructor in Eng
Iish literature and history and has es-
peciaIIy endeaTei himself 10 the young
men with wh0n he Eas had close rela-
tons. He is>an athlete and has found
this a means Of coming close 10 the
boys. ST. Georges school is one OF the
most popular y 5ae many training
schools for College il the East and IS
T.e sTrz
said to Mr. Castle that while he would
not think or putting ne slightest block
in the way q n. Griftiths, as ne
thought his abilities entitled him to a
place al The head of a school, yet his
leaving ST George would be distinct
| GetriuenT 10 that institution
The experience q AE-. Griffiths as as
siStanf in a educational school makes
his selection seem extremely fitting
here. He is remarked for has execu-
tive ability and tn capacity 10 har-
monte conflicting Clements, as vel as
his tact IL dealing with situations likely
70 arise in any large body OF under
graduates While he Oahu College
| trustees were dealing with him other
offers were being considered by him.
and Il was tEIs attractive features OF
The work here that finally won him 10
me local college.
Mr. Gr5f5ths said that because
there was sEch an institution out hera
| in The mid Pacific, with SURROUNDINGS
which would cali for the hardest work
bat al the same time gave promise OF
such results. he would prefer this place
TO one which would offer no new prob
lens or scope for original work. Mr.
tirzffiths Is not q minister. but Is Con
Eresationaast- He vas married during
the last year
Mr. CsriffiJhs IS q man above lle me-
dunn height. broad shouidered. with
sandy hair and coInpI s,Vion. OF athletic
build and with a magnetic smile his
! age Is some where between p and -
years He is making all asIrzllGrfnen5s
to reach Honolulu some tiEpe in august.
SO that ne may be ready - secure some
general acquaintance before the seAop'
year opens
Miss Lucy Adams for some time past
instructor in lace making al the ha-
Urehameha Girls School. has been chos-
n teacher Of English and dean II
women Tor Oahu College Miss adams
I prior 70 taking UP her work at Kane
hameha. was a teacher at Miss Por-
/ ter's wei known school at Pennington
Conn.