The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-16
COLLEGE Of
HAWAII OPEN
President Gilmore Addresses
Students of Agricultural
School.

At the opening of the College of
Hawaii, yesterday forenoon, John w.
Gilmore, the president, spoke to the
teachers and students of the college in
one of the classrooms in what he call
ed "family gathering" His object
was, as he stated, to speak informally
about some matters that pertained to
the interests of both teachers and stu
dents
Although our numbers and equip
ment in buildings and apparatus for
teaching may seem SMALL said Pres
ident Gilmore, "yet many large and
important institutions in our midst
have grown from small beginnings.
Commencing as we are in a new and
heretofore unoecupied field, we have an
advantage in that we have no prece-
dents and our outlook is to the future.
Every member of the board of regents
and faculty is striving to make the
college what it should be. -
President Gilmore said that a COM
munity may entertain three ideals of
education-an education for culture, an
education for scholarship, and an edu-
cation for service. He said that with
out neglecting scholarship or culture,
this college in it's work and it's atti-
tude to its environment stood funda.
mentally for an education for service.
Time was" " added President Gilmore,
"when it was supposed that only old
subjects like the classics and philosophy
had training value, but it is pertinent
to say that every subject with which
men and women come into association
or contact has training value when re-
duced to pedagogie form. Wheat bread
and engines have had as profound an
influence on the human race as has
Sanskrit or metaphysics. Little by
little the mechanic arts, agriculture,
politics and the like have found their
way into our college curriculum, and
now it is not so strenuOusly cOntended
that Greek is more cultural than Eng
lish or that Latin, ethics or philosophy
are more divine than engines, bread
or cotton.
"Some discussion has taken place re
garding the entrance requirements. 1t
is the desire of both the regents and |
the faculty that the requirements both |
for entrance and for graduation be |
kept up to university grade. There |
are two good reasons for this. First, |
The institutions already established |
here are well qualified to do the work |
of their respective fields, and it would |
neither be right nor fair for us to du-
1Iicate their courses. In the second |
place, and reason of greater import
ance. it is the right and privilege of
every young man and woman of the Is
ands who is of academic age and prep
aration to receive a higher education
such as he would otherwise have to 60
20 the mainland in order to secure.
After speaking of the regular four
7ears courses in agriculture, engineer
ng, science and household economies,
md also the provision for special stu
Tents, President Gilmore called atten-
ion to the land equipment of the col
eye in Manoa Valley.
''The college, he said, sis only
ust begun, and, like all things in their
beginning. does not possess great at
ractiveness. Within a few years per-
nanent and attractive buildings will
ave been built. SO that students en-
ering now will go out from buildings
f the best and with an education that
viii be equivalent in lines and scope
o that of the best colleges on the
-
The college opened with the follow
ng students entered as candidates for
egrees in regular courses: Sam
White. Yong Tong, Kenneth Winter,
.eslie Clark and Theodore Cooper.
here are number of special students.
specially in domestic science. These
ltterzare mainly young women. Among
ne special students is Along Heen,
-ho has been employed as draughts-
IAN in the Public Works Department