The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-02

M lnavxIegge 81 English. II has hence re
& <,It4d. that of late years. our fourth
81 nIass has Numbered. on entering. from
~ - h. whereas they used 10 lie 80 OF
Al Al the same time the scholars al
raaav pursuing the course have fol
tires years past, shown an unusual de
srae Of persist enee in remaining. so that
- nambers in attendance have not
IfsIIen of IN the same proportion, We
FstiI hay.ng 80, IN place of Go few
years 8
~ have felt reluctance TO propose
-h;a change OF language, fearing a
aeeszitv to omit in consequence. the
Sn.r.established and highly valued
- Of instruction. given In this
ssra;narv in certain studies Of an alb
80 nature. which il would only be
s,as~ihle TO impart TO Hawaiians in their
- taugue. These are such as Moral
Pb;lasopRv. Political Economy, Evil
sIauees ~ Christianity, and other sub
fleets which have held a leading place
: opr curriculum. and which require a
considerable portion OF the time OF one
heaeb..r Some instruction In a part of
these subjects might possibly be pro-
4vided for without an increase of the
corps of instructors, but part of them
would probably have TO be omitted, on
account OF the increased labor devolv
sno on the white teachers, in conse-
uuenee of teaching so many branches in
i language strange to their pupils.
] ssCould the services of an exception
ally able Hawaiian teacher, such as
Rev. NJ. Kuaea, be secured, some of
these subjects might proftably be con-
signed 10 his instruction, although no
Hawaiian possesses the requisite range
bf thought and reading TO give any con-
siderable ability on such topics.
GAS TO the most of the other studies
pursued | am convinced that they can
he taught with success in English to
scholars who on entering are already
rkrepared by two or three years of good
sSndy in & glish. This is especially
trkae of all Mathematics IN our course,
frbm written arithmetic up TO surveying
amid navigation, in al which the con-
st4nt repetition of terms and forms of
expression immensely facilitates the
woAk.
s3The same is true in Geography, if
books like Cornell S or Mitchell s series
are used. where most of the work is in
questions of topography, involving the
same element of repetition of forms.
.Natural Philosophy and Astronomy,
rieating wholly to material and concrete
objects, can be taught in English, IN
volving, however, much more labor than
Mathematics.
ssHistory. which occupies promi-
nent place with us, might be taught by
the use of a well-known and excellent
tn.
tion, being printed in both languages,
would be readily taught.
Physiology, and other branches of
Natural Science can be taught by the
use of Hooker 5 Child s Book of Nature
which is written in simple language.
s'It would seem necessary, for the
efficient prosecution of some of these
studies, that one of the teachers should
possess a tolerable acquaintance with
Hawaiian, in order 60 explain the sense
of terms Employed. One teacher, If a
man of ability, might find ample sue
cess, although ignorant of Hawaiian.
1.-THE labor of instruction will be 30
largely augmented by the use of a for
eign tongue, that it would seem neees-
sary, without adding a third white
teacher, to abridge materially the pres
ent currieulam. But this abridgment
need not, in that case, | think, 60 so
far as TO radically change the eonsti-
tnted character of the school, as one for
Higher Edaeation. 1t is also to be
borne in mind that for those success
fully graduating from Lahainaluna,
Oahu College will afford the opportunity
of further progress, for which they viii
then be qualified by their attachments
in English.
Very respectfully yours,
(Signea1 IS. f. BISHOP"
Letter of s. E. Bishop referred to in
minutes of the Board of Education,
January 3, 1877 plaintiffs Elk. 49,
The proposed change was adopted by
the board of education upon motion of
E. o. Hall, member of the board who
was fiscal agent of the A. B. c. F. NJ. |
(Mintues Board of Education, March
81. 1877. Plaintiffs Ex 49, 1t went
into effect July /, 1877. DIR. Bishop re-
signed and H. R. Hitchcock was APP
painted in his place. This marks a COM
plete severance of the relations between
Lahainaluna and the Hawaiian mission
or its successor, the Hawaiian Evan
gelical Association. From this date
there is no evidence that those repre-
senting the mission in Hawaii We're
nominated or were consulted in respect
to the personnel of the teachers and the
principals from that date TO the present
have been neither ministers nor mis-
sionaries.
Mr. Bishop became assistant in the
forth Pacific Missionary Institute
z hief~~as recognized the same year
rnder the auspices of the American
Board and the Hawaiian Evangelical
Association as training school for Ha-
yfaiian pastors and missionaries. he
ports President Board Of Education,
1850, p. %: 1ss2, p. 81; 1894, p. SO.
Plaintiffs Elk. 49,
The following extracts give the curri- |
cnlum at Lahainaluna sinee 1877:
1.-The Board have also. IN response to |
the popular demand, reorganized the |
National Seminary so as to make the |
English language the chief medium of
instruction. The curriculura of study |
now embraces. besides the elementary |
branches, Algebra, Geometry, Trigo- !
nometry, Mensuration and Surveying, |
Science of Common Things, Dookkeep- |
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