The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-03

regard to health as they could make
their teacher pupils understand They
taught arithmetic and geography and
history as fully as the comprehension
of the scholars permitted. They made
the scriptures supreme and every day
required each student to learn
Bible verse, which was explained and
discussed.
Another branch of station school
work included instruction in the
spelling book and up, for adults of
both sexes residing within radius
of Two or three miles from the sta.
ton. The average attendance at
Hilu was about $50 scholars. There
was also school for children. Later,
in 1887, the General Meeting in Ho-
nolulu expressed its idea of the value
of this branch of the station work in
the following resolution:
Resolved, That the first and best
energies of the teachers be devoted
to the instruction of children, and
that prompt and persevering efforts
be continued to bring all the children
of the nation who are of a suitable
: age under a course of instruction
and that a daily school for chill
dren and another for teachers be kept
in vigorous operation at each of our
stations where it is practicable"
Another important part of the sta
ton school system was the time de.
voted to instructing native helpers so
that they could teach the common
school teachers and aid intelligently
in various kinds of meetings.
| Mrs. Coan and Mrs Lyman had
sewing classes. Mrs. Coan estab-
lished and carried on a girls board
ing school for a number of years.
Mrs. Lyman gave four evenings a
week to teaching teachers in arithme-
tic.
Thus the fifth step in the school
system of the Hawaiian Islands had
come to stay First, there were the
English schools, taught by the mission
aries and their wives; second, the
mission schools in the Hawaiian Ian
guage and the scattered individual
! teachers and scholars; third, groups
of scholars and the first common
schools; fourth, a high school and
better teachers; fifth, station schools
with common schools all around them
and dependent upon them.
During the second decade of school
development, i, e., from 1880 to 1910
several select schools appeared,
stamped with the approval of the
General Meeting of the Mission.
Two of these have been mentioned,
viz: Lahainaluna, started September
;, 1881, and for eighty years contin-
uing as one of the most useful in
fluences in the development of the
islands in many directions. The
Oahu Charity School, commencing in
, 1888, was the second organized
school. Then came female school
for the wives of students in the High
/ School," l. e., Lahainaluna School
This was the forerunner of all the
girls schools which for many years
have tried to prepare young women
to work by the side of young men
, educated in other schools.
In 1886 Rev. D. B. Lyman of Hilo
r felt the need of a closer touch with
, the boys who might be prepared to
= attend the High School at Lahaina-
luna This idea was "in the air" all
= over the mission field and earnest
| discussion had been held concerning
the establishment of boys boarding
schools.
According to a vote of the General
{ Meetings in June, 1885, the mission
station in Hilo was authorized to or.
, ganize such a school, which should
( be a feeder" for the High School al
4 Lahainaluna. 1t was easily seen that
{ Rev. Titus Coan, who was Mr.. Ly
? mans associate at Hilo, was par eX
> cellence the preacher, while Mr.
: Lyman was prominently the teacher