The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-27
READY FOR
| BUSINESS
Y. c. A. Goes in
For a Busy
Year.
MANY NEW PLANS
ARE PRESENTED
Educational Work Takes Preced-
snce-Life Problem Club is an
important Adjunct.

The Honolulu Y. NJ. C. A is launch
ing itself into very busy season AM
is not handicapped this fall by having
to break in new secretaries. The audi
torium which was 80 much in need o.
freshening has had it's walls and cell
ing scraped and also received three
coats of paint. Cracked window panes
have been replaced, chairs repaired an6
| the hall is again an attractive place fol-
social gatherings
| The hall will be re-opened tonight
with an educational social for members
and others and especially for those who
have joined the educational classes OF
wish to investigate the subject Music
and lemonade win help make up a So
cial evening. Chairs will be arranged
in groups with teacher in the center
of each group to explain to the men
how he proposes to take up his par
ticular subject. what ground he will
cover, what suppnes it may be advis-
able to get, and to answer any ques-
tons which may be asked. The courses
will cost the members only dollar
each for the six months.
only once a week, but English. arith-
metic, bookkeeping, shorthand, mechan-
zeal and architectural drawing come
twice a week. The first recitations are
Tuesday and Wedne day of next week,
and Secretary Brown is fast recording
the applications for membership. He
the social tonight and enroll at once
even though payday may come few
days later. None should miss the OPEN
ing. President Griffiths of Oahu Col
lege says he is not an orator, but he
is an able speaker and is thoroughly
posted on Education and Business"
Taking that for AIS subject he will adj
dress the mems meeting in Y. M. c. A.
hall at o'clock tomorrow. Stanley
Livingstone, the new teacher of music
at Kamehameha, has promised to sing.
Thus the educational season of this AS
sociation will be fifty opened.
A twenty-four page prospectus of the
Association may be had free by any
young man who will call for it Satur-
day night. Mr.. Frank Atherton's re-
ception committee will be on hand Sat
urday night, and on other nights during
the busiest season of opening they are
taking turns at welcoming young men
who call to see the building and make
inquiries about educational or gym
nasium classes.
The new prospectus gives details
about a course of study which strikes
us as both intensely practical and jim
teresting. In brief it is as follows:
PART PROBLEMS OF LIvELI-
HOOD.
Six Lessons.-The choice of life
work, occupation to avoid; Relation of
to employer; Honest work, its
effect upon the worker; Christian ideals
Of business; professional honor; legiti
mate reward of lifework.
PART II.-PROBLENis OF SOCIAL
AND FAMILY RELATIONS.
Six Lessons-The choice of friends;
the social use of time; profitable and
Improbable amusements; family obi
cations; life friendships; choice of life
partners, etc, etc.
PART III.-PROBLEMS OF PHYSI-
CAL TEMPTATION.
Six Lessons.-T controlled,
emptation not the sin, but the yield
ng: the way to overcome temptation;
he conservation of energy; the siren
lous life, etc, etc.
PART IV.-PROBLEMS OF SERVICE.
Six Lessons.-"No man liveth to him
elf political duties; THE investment
4 influence" life worth living; Fol
ow thou Me-
The class will be open to all young
men free of charge, Thursdays from
to 7:30, leaving almost the whole even
ng free for other engagements. For
he men who could not otherwise be
n hand at $50 a hearty supper will
'e prepared for as many as give a
landing order or telephone in time, .
nd this supper itself may prove a most .
ttractive social feature. The Associa-
ion has the dishes and outfit and it is :
expected that friends of the gentler sex :
he meat supper, leaving the members :
f the Life Problem Club to meet only .
he simple problem of paying perhaps
wenty cents each for the raw material. :
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