The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-26
MANY CHANGES
IN HONOLULU
Mrs. Mills Admires the City
Now Beautified---T OF
Mills College.

1.-The changes that have come to Ho'
nolulu are wonderful said Mrs.
susan L. Mills Yesterday, chatting
over the delight she has felt IN her
visit to the islands and the pleasure
which has been hers in meeting again
So many Of the friends and pupils OF
other days. When | lived here, and
that was long time ago, there was
none OF the beautiful fora which
makes Honolulu of today one of the
most delightful OF cities. We have
our famous rose porch at the Mills
College, beautiful sight when the
climbing bushes are III full bloom,
something that tourists come miles to
see, but at its best it is not to be
compared to the many beautiful things
| find today in Honolulu. -
The venerable teacher, who numbers.
among her pupils many of the best
known people of Hawaii, IS the head
of the only chartered college for
women west of the Rocky mountains.
The college and its promotion is the
life work of Mrs. Mills and her late
husband Rev. Cyrus I. Mills, whose
birthday is celebrated annually by the
Young ladies Of the institution as
- Founder s Day. There many Ha
waiian girls receive their college train
ing, each term for some time finding
an average of eighteen young ladies
from the islands attending the lee
lures and receiving in addition to the
knowledge gained from books thor
ough training in ethics and culture In
it's best and broadest sense.
The college is five miles east of Oak
land where the climatic conditions are
It's educational situation
is strategic, in the center of the Pa
cific slope, facing the Pacific with its
island groups.
There are two departments, college
and seminary. The seminary course
gives a good. ''all round education
to those who do not desire to take
the full college course. Graduates
from this department are admitted to
eastern colleges and to the two univ
ersities of California without examin-
alton.
The college curriculum corresponds
MIA and Stanford University and those
the college course are adj
mitted for graduate work at the Univ
eTSItieS Vi 1dlIl anu kotdhIOlt3 as
we'll as at the Eastern colleges and
Mills College has also an especially
fine musical department, and fully
equipped department of domestic sci
ence.
The college is directed and controlled
by self -perpetuating board of trus-
tees, to whom the property was deed |
ed by its founders-Dr. and Mrs.
CYRUS T. Mills. Rev. Charles r. Brown,
pastor of the First Congregational
Church of Oakland, is President of the
Board. Since the death of DR.. Mills,
Mrs. Mills has been the president of
the college.
By the terms of its charter, the col
lege must remain forever non-see-
tartan but Christian institution Of the
highest order.
1t has $50 acres of choice land and
eight excellent buildings, including a
concert and lecture hall with fine pipe
organ, stone science building well
equipped with laboratories and muse
um, Carnegie Library with 5000
an observatory with a five
inch refracting telescope, dormitories
and recitation rooms.
The athletic department of the col
lege is especially fine. The Mills bas-
ketball team has for some years held
the championship of the Coast.
The faculty of Mills is large, and
its loyal alumnae are scattered in all
parts of the world
Mrs. Mills expects TO leave for the
Coast on July 8, provided accommo
dations can be secured on the S. S. |
Siberia, sailing on that date. There
is nothing sure about this latter, how
ever, as multitude have booked pas
sage and only few can be taken.
The San Francisco agency of the Pa |
cifc Mail has been communicated with |
and has issued instructions to the
local agents to make an especial effort |
to reserve a statereom for her. Mrs. |
Mills has strong opinions on many sub
jects and lately has formed one on
the iniquity of applying the coasting
laws to islands situated two thousand |
miles from any mainland