The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-10-01
Commercial Department.

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The effort in this department is to
give as general and broad a training
in academic subjects as possible, and
at the same time to trhn up students
who are fairly expert in the special
commercial department work. For use
in training students in receiving dicta-
ton direct on the typewriter new Ed
son business photograph has been in
stalled for next year.
The demand for graduates of this de
partment who have broad general
education and adequate special training
is greater than we can meet. 1t is a
wonder that more of our students do
not get he training which this depart
ment gives.
Music Department.
In the last FIVE years, especially in
the last two years, the music depart
ment has made distinct advances. At
the beginning of the period of com
parison. there was little general inter
est in music and less skill in producing
it. The teaching was quite perfunctory
and no musical spirit in the best sense
existed. At the present time a begin
ming has been made on the develop
ment of a well considered plan for
making the music department one of
the strongest departments of the school.
With the local interest in music. and
with such a constituency as we have,
department which will be considered
by all a credit to us ought TO be main
tanned. In her peculiarly isolated sit
uation Hawaii can and should support
good music Oahu College ought to be
the center of music in these Islands
The teaching of singing under a spe-
ciai teacher throughout the school is
one of the first steps in this develop
ment. Then the demands of well equip
ped teachers in piano, voice. organ and
violin. viii bring the department up to
the standard that we desire. There
is much evidence of this increase in
interest and in achievement, but much
remains to be done.
The plan for the development of the
department provides that the depart
ment shall be put on firm financial
basis, that the credit balance each year
shall go into fund for the mainte
nance and growth of the department,
that the graded course in music, allied
with the regular academic course, shall
be continued and extended until the
can give certificate for
a complete musical course. and that
the faculty be gradually increased by
teachers who in musical skill and train
ing shall be able to take leading places
in Honolulu musical circles.
Pictorial instruction.
The use of pictorial instruction in
schools is increasing. Not only because
of its general advantages but also be-
cause of our peculiarly isolated situa-
ton. the committee believes that this
kind of instruction should be increased
at Punahou. AS part of the library
equipment, or in some way, more pic
lures. maps, and illustrative material
should be secured for class room use.
In this the Kaleidoscope used either
with slides or with pictures, especially
now that daytime current is available,
should be encouraged. In this connec-
ton, the presentation to the college of
the Cooke Memorial, which will have
in If masterpieces of painting and prob
ably replicas Of celebrated sculptures
has a greater significance even than
the splendid gift in itself first suggests.
The drawing. now given so success
fully to all students through the grades
and higher classes, should be supple
mented by courses in fine arts. in the
history of ART. and in more advanced
work in drawing and painting.
Future Plans.
Under the present endowment the
college can not undertake any very
large additions to the curriculum, or
any wide extensions to the present
plans of instruction. This committee,
who in way represents the spending
end of the concern, feels, however, that
plans for the future should always be
in formation and be ready for putting
under wav at short notice. In many
WAYS, as already outlined in this re-
port. and in many ways of which this
report makes no mention, progress has.
been made. 1t is the plan to keep
pace with educational progress and to
keep Punahou in the rank of the best
schools of the land.
Along two or three lines the com
mittee feels that some immediate at
tention should be given to plans for
some of them already dis
cussed.
~ A college course, or at least a.
beginning of one, should receive imme-
date consideration. The college is in
a strategic position now in this matter
which il viii give up if action is long
deferred For this a liberal endow-
ment is necessary.
co Physical education, on a system
attic and directed plan is much needed,
by the girls, and also by
the boys who do not enter generally
into athletics
go The library is just beginning to
come into its own as a widely used
instrument of instruction. When the
books are fully catalogued and when
the librarian can give more of his time
to the users Of the books and less to
the books themselves. this part of our
viii be one of the most
effective Much is being done now and
more can and will be done.
The committee feels a responsibility
in this constructive educational work
and urges the cooperation in thought
and action of all of the trustees N
keeping Punahou at its present high
level of efficiency ard in ADVANCING her