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

The prescribed course Of studies
and instruction IS arranged for foui
years. The first year, il comprises :
thorough review Of the branches USUALLY
taught in Grammar Schools. During
the remaining years, the course is more
/ extended. including Higher Mathe
males. subjects Of Natural and Moral
Science. History and Political Economy
Instruction in Music forms part of the
regular exercises Of the school. The
| several classes also have exercises IN
| English Composition and Defamation. .
Report President Board of Education.
/ 1ss2, p. 20.
''The Seminary is a part OF the pub
| lie school system IN which instruction
| is provided in branches of study more
| advanced than those pursued az the
other select schools The regular course
| OF instruction continues for four years;
but pupils may be advanced according
to their scholarship when they enter, 50
as to complete II in shorter time. Be
/ sides a review of the usual common
school branches the course Of study en-
| braces Algebra. Geometry, Trigonome-
| try, Surveying. Bookkeeping, History,
/ Natural Philosophy. Moral Science,
Political Economy. and Physiology,
| English Composition, Music, Military
Drill, and instruction in the theory and
practice of School Teaching. Annual
written examinations constitute very
| important feature of the Seminary. The
promotion Of pupils from class to class
| is based on the results of these examina-
tons
Report President Board of Education,
1884, p. 81.
Course of Study.
"There are FIVE classes in the school,
| representing FIVE years work, and the
following is the course of study pur-
sued:
&c Class-Reaaing, from Hawaii $
Young People: Drawing and Natural
Science, Observation Work; Geography,
Frye s advanced: Literature, De
percentage, Atwood: Agricultural Work.
Cd Class - Literature. Cook s
Ulysses; History, Andrew s Ten Boys:
Physiology. Blaisdeil's How to Keep
Well: Arithmetic, completed, Atwood;
Drawing and Music: Printing.
&C Class-Literature, Black Beauty;
History, connected stories for general
history: Physics, Shaw IS Physics by
quantities. Wentworth: Drawing and
Music; Carpentry and Wood Turning. j
"B CIass-Literature EvangeIine;
History, American, Barnes; Grammar;
Geometry; through circles; Drawing
and Music; Carpentry and Wood Turn
ing.
GA Class-Literature History, Ha
waiian; Composition; Geometry, com
plete plane; Drawing and Music; Car
pentry and Blaeksmithing.
Report Superintendent of Public In
struetion, 1900, p. IS.
Course of Study.
"E Class--Reading from Hawaii s
Young People, Baldwin s Fifty Fam
ous Stories, Great Americans for Little
Americans: Reproduction of Stories;
Letter Writing; Drill in Capitalization,
Punctuation. Paragraphing. Phonics,
etc Memory Selections; Prince s
Authentic No. " completed, Geo
graphy, Current Events; Physiology,
the Human Body and It's Health, by
Smith; Music; Mechanical Drawing.
I'D Class-Cooke g Stories of Ulysses;
Blaisdell s Stories from English His
tory: Mother Tongue; Book /: Current
Events; Letter Writing; Short Poems
Memorized; Arithmetic; Prince s Book
V completed; Frye's Geography;
Smith s Physiology; Music, Mechanical
Drawing.
&C Class-Eggleston 8 First Ameri-
can History; Mother Tongue No. | re-
viewed and No III begun; Dole Is Young
Citizen; Current Events; Letter Writ
ing; Arithmetic, Prince Book VI,
completed; Algebra begun; Agriculture,
agriculture for Beginners by Bur-
kett. Stevens and Hill; Frye's Geo
graphy; Bookkeeping and Drawing.
.@B Class-Eggleston s Advanced
American History; Guerber's Roman
History fgiven orally, for oral and
written reproduction); Current Events;
Mother Tongue, No. II; Synopsis of
Hawaiian Government; Letter Writing; |
Poems memorized; Arithmetic, Prince 8 |
Book VII completed; Algebra; Frye s
Geography: Bookkeeping; agriculture,
Agriculture for Beginners, by Bur |
kett. Stevens and Hill.
a Glass Alexander Hawaiian
History: National Stories, as Jewish
Heroes, Cyrus the Great, Pericles, Alex
ander the Great, Pulius Caesar, Char |
lemagne, Nelson, Napoleon, etc. given
for oral and written production; supple |
mentary reading; Current Events; Let /
ter Writing; Memory Selections; Arith- |
metic, Prince s Book VIII completed; |
Wentworth s First Steps in Algebra,
reviewed; Geometry, Wentworth S First
Book, Frye's Geography completed;
Boskkeeping; Agriculture. In addition
II tie text books frequent reference as
made to the publications of the Depart |
ment eff Agriculture.
Report Superintendent of Public In
struction, 1906, p. 10.
Under the decision of the United /
States Supreme Court we are to con-
strue the condition of transfer in the
light of the circumstances which pre-
eeded it and the immediate and long
continued practice under it. Combining
ourselves for the present to the eondi- /
tion respecting religious instruction
reading, 1T shall not teach or allow /
to be taught any religious tenet or doe
trine contrary to those heretofore ineui- /
Gated by the mission which we repre-
sent. a summary of which viii be found /
in the confession Of faith herewith en-
closed. - the following possible con-