The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-27
OAHU COLLEGE TRUSTEES
CONFER WITH FACUL IY'
President Griffths in Report Discusses the System
in CONGRATULATIONS With the Great
Mainland Colleges.

who are old but who have had no ad-
vantages TO do two years work IN one,
or three years in two. 1t is our desire
so to arrange it that every child OF ann
bition, good health, and real ability
shall be able to go through the course
just as rapidly as possible. In our con-
ditions, this will be feasible where IL
would be an impossibiIity in over
crowded rooms and with other disad-
vantages..
other schools are doing this. OF the
fifty-one largest cities in the United
States, forty have some plan or semi
annual or more frequent promotions.
THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOR
CERTIFICATE SYSTEM.
1t has been my policy to extend as far
as possible the system of sending our
students to college on certificate 1t
has been Our experience here that the
final examinations for admission, COM
ing as they do in the last weeks Of
June, are the greatest physical strain
upon the candidates. They involve too
inevitably a good deal of that special
instruction which approaches closely TO
s.crsin1rning,'' and render difficult, If not
impossible continuance of the work
in a way to give that well rounded edu-
cation and broad training which IN
preparatory school pariance is called
a good fit.'' The broad consideration
of principles and policies in the final
month or two of the last two years
when the examinations are taken is
subordinated to refreshing the memory
on much less important details which,
because they were studied early in the
course, have possibly become dim.
The objection to the certificate system
raised by some is that towards the end,
when the students get confident of their
being certified, they lag in their work
Our experience has been quite the
contrary here. This may be due to q
variety of causes; by our system only
students who get an average of or
whereabouts In each subject are entitled
to a certificate in that subject. This
grade is higher than we require for
graduation and much higher than even
the best colleges require for admission
by examination The College Board
demands sixty per cent, equivalent to
our c. and a student may get into Yale
or Harvard with certain number of
DIS providing that some of his work
is C or above; the desire that they all
have to avoid the examinations and the
stigma that they feel in not getting
certificate keep their work of high
standard. As the certificate is not Civ
en- until after the close of the school
year, this standard is maintained to
the end. That the system is slightly
more difficult to administer is indis-
putable but by a clear statement at
the beginning of the year, of the con-
ditions under which certificates are
given and the alternative, and by fire.
quent repetitions throughout the year.
there is left no ground of n1isunder-
standing. AS yet we have had no COM
plants where certificates in particular
subjects have been refused
Our certificates ire accepted at the
following colleges: Wellesley smith,
Cornell, Illinois. Stamford. Yale Law
School and VassaI. Our students go
by examination to Harvard, Yale,
Princeton and Bryn Mawr, which do
not accept certificates, and to the Uni;
yersity of California, which accents
certificates only from schools that have
been fayorably reported on by q COM.
nittee of the faculty after a personal
visit of inspection at the expense of
the school.
USE OF GROUNDS AND BUILD
INGS.
We have done a good deal this year
to carry out the liberal policy of the
Trustees in allowing the use of the
buildings for worthy objects, especially
for those which tend towards the in
tellectaal and social uplifting oil the
community. PaEafli Hall has four
times this year been thrown open to
the Research Club for public meetings.
The Charles Fl. Bishop Hall has also
been used several times for musical
and other worthy entertainments. The
extension of this principle of allow
ing to outsiders the use of the build
ings which represent SO large an OUT
lay of capital, will be a good thing for
the community and for the colleges
Under present conditions it is not pos
sible or expecient to think of utiliz-
ing the buildings for evening or voca>
ton sessions SIS is done in the public
schools of many cities The field which
lies open before us is the one which
we have been using this year and and
which may be broadened until the COL
lege shall be able to offer opportuni-
ties for instruction and entertainment
In q limited way for old as well as
young. To further this end we are
now making arrangements for the fit
ting up OF one of our stereopticon Ian
terms to be used In Charles r Bishop
Hall. 1t is plain that the inadequate
use OF our school buildings is waste
full just in proportion to their cost
illness. If we can increase their output
in mental or moral good. it seems that
we are getting larger interest on our
investment.
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