The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-20

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A reduction in teachers salaries al
along the line would accomplish the re
suit but it would lose to us most O.
our best teachers The teud1nev O.
teachers salaries is upward not down
ward.
As far as the salary list is concerned
unless all other means fail, our best
hope lies in the most careful planning
of the courses so as to keep the force
at a minimum and in conservatism il
increases and in new contracts
B. Buildings and Grounds rec
ommend that the Buildings ana
Grounds Committee, in conference with
the President and superintendent oi
Grounds, be directed to make a study
of the cost of maintenance of buildings
and grounds, service, and possibilities
of economy and be empowered to make
such reduction in service and expen.
ditures as seem desirable.
We hardly realize that our campus
area is now three or four times larger
than it was three years ago. With
the necessarily higher first cost of get
ting the ground into condition, the ex-
penses have been three or four times
greater. Much as we like the grassy
lawns and well kept roads, the up
keep of the campus must be regulated
to our income.
G.. Interest on Debt This can be
reduced only by the gradual or com
plete Wiplng out Of the debt itself
Punatoa's Needs.
The same page that discusses our
Strengthened financial condition is hard
" the place for a statement of the
physical needs which call for more
money to buy or build and to MAIN
tain. But some of these press so
heavily for consideration that a state
ment Of them finds justification even N
this place.
A. An addition to Charles r. Bishop
Hall. The congestion in this building
in getting yearly more serious. A final
solution can not be much longer de-
layed. Plans for an addition, which
will have six recitation rooms and will
cost $25 900, have been drawn,
b. Gymnasium. Plans have been
prepared for such a building as we
need, combining the advantages of an
open air gymnasium with swimming
tank, locker and showers for boys aud
girls, bowling alleys. and of an audi
torinm for our many programs IF all
sorts and also of lunch room where
a cheap midday lunch can be served to
day pupils, according to our much dis
cussed desire. They call for $4,000
building whose plan may be slightly
altered as the exigencies of our needs
or our purse, seem to warrant.
G. Music Department. increase
in pupils, in teachers, and in amount
of work done in this department has
brought a serious demand for better
quarters and a larger equipment. Two
more pianos are imperative in the
studios next year. Three of the pianos
used in the grades and for practicing
are almost unusable. This year four
rented.
Inc needs in the department may
be grouped as follows:
Ideal. A Hall of Music, having
auditorium studios, and practice rooms,
equipped with pianos This would cost
about $4,000. An endowment Of $780,
900 more would nicely carry it on.
2.--Desirable. Old School Hall, re.
modelled to provide one more studio,
and the following equipment for all
music purposes
~ A grand piano for the studio,
costing 5000 to $3.50.
~ A grand piano in Charles R.
Bishop Hall for concerts and programs,
costing 5000 to $3.50.
CD Four upright pianos, each cost
ing $3.50 to $500.
3.-Neeessary. Old School Hall, re-
modelled to provide one more studio,
and the following equipment for all
music purposes.
~ 4 grand piano for the studio
and for use by moving to Charles r.
Bishop Hall for concerts and programs,
costing 5000 to $3.50.
~ Three upright pianos, each cost
ing $3.50 to $500.
Our Joint Responsibility.
This year, as never before, there has
been impressed upon me such sense
of responsibility for the young people
committed to our care as drives me to
inquiry on every hand as to whether
we are doing all that we can in the
Etat Ady tHdt we can IOT IHeIT re-
ligious, moral and intellectual develop
ment.
You jointly with me are response
bic TO tie donors who have given
funds for our use and to parents who
intrust their children to us. Youl
| responsibility IS in large part met when
xou have laid the broad plans by which
| the work in the school is carried on
You must of necessity leave its de