The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-05-22

and character OF population, anu III al
elements which would affect the curri-
cuIu1n. The cities are Brookline and
Springfield from the East; Evanston
from the Mississippi valley, and Denver
from the Rocky Mountain sections, and
san Francisco from the Pacific Coast
The first comparison gives an idea OF
the subjects in which we show superior
ity or inferiority. 1t viii be observed
that the comparison is favorable 10
Punahou.
4. Punahou excels Brookline in the
COURSES offered in English, history, adj
vanced chemistry. commercial course,
physiology, and Brookline is ahead OF
Punahou in advanced physics and
manual training.
So Punahou has more English than
Springfield but less courses in advance
ed physics, advanced biology, astrono-
my and analytical geometry.
80 Punahou excels Evanston in
trigonometry, English and commercial
course, while Evanston has only manu-
al training that we have not
"a. Punahou is ahead of Denver in
English and in the commercial course,
and Denver has courses in Spanish.
IS Punahou offers physiology and
English. history. and the Lowell High
School has a course in modern history.
I'm tables. the figures are year pc
RODS, /. e., English, which meets five
times a week for four years, is counted
twenty periods and in the first COM
parison where it is shown that we have
eleven and one-half such periods more
than Brookline. it indicates that Brook
line has only nine and one-half periods
in English, or little more than an
average of two periods per week for
four years. A difference of five periods
is equivalent to a years work by one
standard.
1T is hoped that these comparisons
will show that as far as variety and
number of courses and scope and con-
tinuity of the work is concerned, Pu-
nahou ranks high. The other elements
to be considered are the quality of the
teaching, to which the position taken
by our graduates amply testifies. and
the length of the periods which in our
case are forty minutes, as opposed to
forty-five minutes in the schools with
which comparison is made. This of
course needs to be remembered in COM
parison. Our great superiority IN Tn
glfsh is explainable by its being requir-
ed a greater number of periods for a
larger number of years
THE college Greek is planned to
meet only four times a week fo- it is
believed i'll our necessarily small class
eS that we can do more work in Less
times than in the large ella ,sas of q
big school. AT The Lowell High school
in San Francisco where the only great
differ ence IS shown in modern Ian
guages, they give either French or Ger
man only four times week for two
years; here it may be taken three years
Eve tim = . week scieuee and in
mathematics we excel in every in
stance.
I'm music, if we consider only our
chorus classes Springfield is the only
school that has more; if we were also
to count the harmony, ensemble, piano,
violin and other classes. our work
would greatly exceed Springfield's.
Springfiel6's great excess in art is due
to four years elective work in mechanic
al drawing, coming five times a week
in preparation for technical school
work"
The table shown gives the number OF
years in the various branches as ex-
planned in the address.
In English where Oahu has 20. its
recess is as follows over Brookline, IL
1-2; Springfield. IL; Evanston, IL;
Denver, liz; San Francisco, 5.
Latin: Oahu, 20, excess over Spring
field, /; San Francisco, 8; others equal.
Greek: Oahu, II. Excess OF others
Brookline, 8; Springfield, 2; Evanston,
IL; Denver, 2; San Francisco, /.
Modern languages: Oahu, 80. excess
over Brookline, 1; San Francisco, IA.
Springfield exceeds Oahu by 3.
History: Oahu, IA IL: an excess over
Brookline, 8; Springfield, IL; Evanston,
2. Denver excess by L and San Fran
cisco by 1-2
Science: Oahu. 20 exceeding all 9TH
ers by Brookline, 8; Springfield, / IL;
Evanston, 6 IA; Denver, 4; San Fran
cisco, 2.
Mathematics: Oahu 10, again exceed
ing all others with the schools in the
order named above by 6, IL, 1-2, 4
and 5.
Commercial: Oahu. AZ H. which is
in excess By the following in order.
IS ID, 4, 40; 40 IL and ~ 1-2.