The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-04
THE COLLEGE OF
HAWAII AND THE
COURSES OFFERED
The College Stands for an Education in Terms
of the Things With Which We Have to Do
and the Activities of Life

The College of Hawaii stands for an
education in terms of the things with
which we have to do and of the activi-
ties from which we derive pleasure and
happiness. Without excluding the
ideals of scholarship and culture, it
fosters an education for service. 1t
would advocate for its students and all
those who are interested in its welfare
and activities the viewpoints that all
subjects or activities with which men
and women get their living, or from
which they derive pleasure, have ele-
ments of educational value; that all
work that is productive of good is dig
nifed, and that men and women should
be educated toward wholesome work
rather than away from it.
Food, shelter and clothing are three
necessities for human existence These
have undergone various intricate
changes until now we have an inter
mingling of them all in the home. The
management of the household accords
with the science, art and intelligent
skill that is brought to bear on it. 1t
is therefore for the more thorough
knowledge that people all over the
United States have started the move
ment, called by various terms, which
is trying to solve some of the prob
lens. 1t is not only the women who
are trying, but the men are applying
their knowledge of science, arehitec-
ture and finance to these problems, and
endeavoring to reach a solution. Thus
it is that in all the institutions for
higher learning the study of the house
hold plays an important part.
Domestic Science Course.
Feeling that the needs in Honolulu !
were as great as in other places, the
College of Hawaii is offering this
course without ignoring the value of
manual skill, yet intellectual instruc-
ton and development is the object,
sought.
The Regular four years course en-
deavors to lay equal stress upon food,
clothing and shelter, from a scientific !
and an artistic point of view. 1t re-
quires $50 credits for graduatieh-thatI
is, little less than 10 credits for one |
half years work. A credit consists of |
one hours recitation a week for one !,
half year, with one and one-half hours
preparation for that recitation. Or it !.
may be two and one-half hours labor
atory work or field work instead of
the recitation.
The Work BY Years.
The first years work includes
study of chemistry, drawing, geem-
etrv, botany, German or French, Eng
lish, household architecture and SAM
tation, and textiles. Household archi-
lecture and sanitation include the
study of various types of architecture
adapted to the house, drawing of plans
and the study of sanitation, regarding
location, disposal of sewage, etc Tex
tiles is a study of various fbers used
for clothing and household fabrics,
their methods of manufacture, care of
the cloth, and its adaptability for
various uses.
The second years work includes
study of English, German or French,
art and design, chemistry, zoology,
physiology, geology, home decoration,
and principles of selection and prep
aratiOn of food. In the course in home
decoration the student takes the plans
he or she has worked out in the pre-
vious course, and furnishes and dec
crates them according to harmony of
color, design and use.
In the third year the work takes up
a study of chemistry of foods, baeter-