Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-07
AsIATIC INSTITUTE IS FOUNDED

Interest East and West is waking to the i'm
portancc Of the East understanding the West and
the West the East. Locally the new movement
is marked by the establishment of the Japan So
ciety Of Hawaii, out of which is not unlikely t.
grow larger society including not only Ameri
cans and Japanese but representatives of sever
al other nations.
On the mainland there has been launched the
Asiatic Institute, organized in New York ON
April 81 of this year and headed by such men as
Seth Low, former mayor of New York. Willard
Straight the young finaneier and business dip
lOmat; Arthur j. Brown, secretary Of the Pres
byterian Board of Foreign Missions; Samuel T.
Dntton, of Canton Christian College and the
American Peace Society, and long list of other
men prominent in educational and international
work.
The Asiatic Institute was organized in New
York for the purpose of taking hold of the situa-
ton that has been developing from the contact
OF two civilizations in the Pacific Basin 1t has
for its aims the vital objects which those who
have interested themselves in the countries of
eastern Asia, and the relation of the same to us,
find most urgently necessary to be undertaken.
These aims exclude the doing of what is being
we'll done by others They permit the undertak-
ing of whatever measures may be found neces-
sary to place our education, scholarship, and
people in touch with the mental life and develop
ment in eastern Asia and the Pacific Basin, and
the dissemination in the United States of knowl-
edge which is not now generally accessible.
The object of the Asiatic Institute as eX-
pressed in its organization adopted April 81,
1913, is:
. To establish an Asatic and Pacific library, mu-
scum and educational and publicity institute; to
promote the study OF and conditions in east
ern Asia and the Pacific; to disseminate in the
United States knowledge of Pacific affairs; and in
particular:
fa) To promote the study of Chinese. Japanese,
and other eastern Asian languages literature, his
tory, laws religions, arts. economic conditions and
politics.
Obj To establish the study of Chinese, Japanese,
and Korean Siamese, Filipino Malayan, and Asiatic
Russian. progress and reforms;
(c) To know the influence of the west upon the
countries of eastern ASIA the effect of the
ress and development Of these countries upon the
west in the Pacific basin;
I'D To encourage coordination of American ac-
tyites contact with native movements in eastern
Asia and the Pacific to promote intercourse and con-
tribnte TO the solution questions arising from the
contact of different civilizations there issue publ
cations and otherwise such things may be nee
essary to advance its work.
Preliminary meetings looking to the formation
Of an Asiatic Institute were held in eastern Asia
by the persons interested, in 1911 and 1872, and
a survey of the field covered by the INSTITUTED
was made at that time by Frederick Mccormick.
Feb. IA, 1913, preliminary organization was
made i'm New York.
1t is understood that the multiplication of So
cieties and movements striving to solve Pacific
questons, the fact that these questions are re-
garded by Occdentals in the Pacific Basin as the
greatest problems of the century and of the cen
fury to come, and in particular the urgent call
from eastern Asia, from Washington, and else
where in this country for coordination and ra-
tional effort, are the reasons forming the basis
of this movement. 1t is not anticipated that
there will be any difficulty as to funds for oper-
ating expenses of the Institute.
HOprTIU TapIEE INDIcITI0N