The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-08
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CHANGE: IN
SCHOOLS
Maui Teachers on
the County
Bill.
GEAR HOLDS COURT
IN LAHAINA TOWN
Excuses Jury and Then Changes
His Mind-Wailuku Mill
Starts Up.

MAUI, Dec. 6, 1902.-Last Monday the
annual convention of the Maui Teach
ers' Association was held in the Waflu-
ku school hall, fifty teachers being pres
ent, representing nearly every school of
the island The spacious stage of the
hall was adorned with beautiful potted
palms, and large American and Hawai-
ian flags.
At 1915 a. m. the president, Mr.. D.
D. Baldwin, called the assembly to or
der After brilliant piano solo by Miss
Richardson. the roll was called by the
secretary to which response was given
by quotations. Then followed the re-
port of the last meeting by the retiring
secretary, Mr.. S. r. Dowdle, which was
read by the present secretary. Miss
Mary E. Fleming.
The first paper of the day was that
of Mr. w. c. Crook upon Race Charac-
Crooks long experience in territorial
schools showed to advantage in the por-
trayal of character traits of Hawaiian,
Portuguese, American, Chinese, Japan
csc. and Porto Rican pupils. American
children were chiefly remarkable for
their absence, especially in the country
schools, and Porto Ricans were too re-
cent arrivals to be properly judged.
Mr.. F. w. Hardy presented the fol-
lowing resolution which, as amended by
Mr.. C. E. Copeland, was passed unanf-
mously at the beginning of the after
noon session:
Whereas. the territorial legislature
to meet in Honolulu on the third We'd
nesday of February, 1903, is to frame
and pass a city and county bill; and
Whereas, it is universally admitted
for well-known reasons by all intelli-
gent citizens that educational matters
should be kept out of politics and free
from the control of politicians;
Resolved, that we, the teachers of
Maui, assembled in convention here in
Wailuku this first day of December
1902, do hereby affirm our confidence in
the present method of conducting edu-
cational affairs within this territory and
do recommend that the school system
be continued as at present except in
such municipalities as may be estab-
lished.
Resolved, that a copy of the fore
going resolution be forwarded at the
proper time by the secretary to the
chairman of the committee on educa-
ton of the Senate and the House of
Representatives of the legislature of
1908, and be Immediately transmitted by
the secretary to the committee of Re-
publicans now framing a city and coun-
ty bill in Honolulu
Mr. w. E. Reavis's paper on THE
Practical Teaching of English was an
excellent one. 1t dealt chiefly with Ian
guage lessons, based upon the study of
verbs. AS a preliminary step to this
he recommended phonetical drill on
vowel sounds. Mr.. Reavis declared
that the poor English spoken by Ha-
waiian pupils was caused by a too
large vocabulary of nouns and an ig-
norance of the proper use of verb forms.
Sentence structure should be taught
first and the names of things nouns)
as they are needed.
Then a trio, Messrs. David Kapoha-
kimohewa, Moses Kauhimahu and VIM
Kaluakini, sang most tremendously a
Hawaiian song. They were aecompa-
MED on the piano by Miss Richardson
A motion presented by Mr.. s. r. Dow
die was adopted. to the effect that DR..
McConkey be requested to prepare for
publication in Hawaii's Young People
a list of simple remedies to be used in
the public schools in case OF emergency.
Mrs Austin's paper on Correct Be
ginnings in Fractions" exhibited care
full preparation and thorough under
standing of the subject. She believed
in the induetive method OF teaching.
In a paper on Technical English, y
Mr.. II. NJ. Coke recommended that the
analysis of simple. compound and COM
pick sentences be taught, to be followed
by parsing and the other more difficult
phases of English grammar. Among
the Essential of Manual Training
mentioned by Mr.. E. H. Carleton in his
exposition of the subject were: first. a
course in drawing. freehand. perspect-
i've and mechanical draughting to be
taught; second, the names and proper
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