The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-09-18
COLLEGE or
HAWAII OPEN
CFrom Wednesdays Advertiser.)

ttrom wednesdays A0vertfSer.)
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 unoccupied 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 il should be.p
President Gilmore said that 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 its work and its 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-
duccd to pedagogic 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 il 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-
plicate 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
lands who is of academic age and prep
n n finn IN hinhar al,
such as he would otherwise have to 90
to the mainland in order to secure"
After speaking of the regular four
years courses in agriculture, engineer
ing, science and household economies,
and also the provision for special stu
dents, President Gilmore called atten-
tion to the land equipment of the col
lege in Manoa Valley.
''The college, he said. ''is only
just begun, and, like all things in their
beginning, does not possess great at
tractiveness Within few years per-
manent and attractive buildings will
have been built, so that students en-
tering now will go out from buildings
of the best and with an education that
will be equivalent in lines and scope
to that of the best colleges ON the
mainland"
The college opened with the follow
ing students entered as candidates for
degrees in regular courses. Sam
White, Yong Tong, Kenneth Winter,
Leslie Clark and Theodore Cooper.
There are number of special students.
especially in domestic science. These
latter are mainly young women. Among
the special students is Along Heen,
who has been employed as a draughts-
man in the Public Works Department.