Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-04-28
COLLEGE WON'T
Be INVESTIGATED
BY COMMISSION
House Tables Lyman ResoIu-
ton, Though In Sympathy
With Its Real Object


On the ground that the College of
Hawaii authorities are working Oh the
problem Of increasing the attendance
and also fearing that any action to-
wards reducing the standards OF edu-
cation at the College Of Hawaii might
cause the United States government
10 discontinue the federal apprOpriq-
ton for the institution, the house OF
representatives yesterday tabled the
Lyman resolution to appoint COM
mission to devise system Of reducing
the educational standards Of the col
le"e.
In its report TO the house, the edu-
CatiCn committee says that it was in
sympathy with the real object OF the
resolution. but Chairman Clarence II.
Cooke said today that it was feared
that reduction of the standards might
jeOEardize the federal appropriation,
The report Of the committee is as fol-
lows:
Your committee on education, to
which was referred House Current
Resolution %, begs to report thereon
as follows:
The real object Of the resolution
is to devise some plan In order to
make available to a larger number of
students the advantages offered by the
College of Hawaii for advanced in
Struction in agricultural and meChani-
cal subjects. The resolution seeks to
accomplish, or at least make some
progress toward this end by securing a
report from a commission, to be APP
pointed by the governor and directed
to look carefully into the plan of low.
ering the standard of admission to the
college, frightening its course OF
study, and establishing a boarding de-
partment and dOrmitory in connection
with the college where students from
the islands other than Oahu can live
at a cost to them of not exceeding $50
year.
With the real object of this reso.
luton your committee is in entire
sympathy. The same idea was en-
bodied in the suggestion for the estab-
lishment of an agricultural high school
in close connection with the college,
made originally by the holdover COM
mittee of the senate on education, and
Endorsed and recommended by the HO-
nolulu Chamber of Commerce. Your
committee, upon inquiry, has, however,
found that the cost of such school
would be very great; that the present
equipment of the college is not suffi-
cient, nor could much of it be used for
that purpose since it has been &C
quired from federal funds 31d that 1t
would appear more logical that such
a school should be under the depart
ment Of public instruction rather than
the college, since when established
such a school should, within it's field,
stand in the same general relation to
the entire scheme of public instruc-
ton as the present high schools oc
cupy within the especial fields now
covered by them. Your committee has
further found upon inquiry that both
the department of public instruction
and the president and regents of the
College of Hawaii are proposing to
formulate and submit to the next leg
islature some more concrete and de-
tailed suggestions along these lines
than have been made to the commit
tees on education during the present
session.
Your committee believes that this
subject can properly be left with the
and commissioners of
public instruction and the president
and regents of the college, since it is a
part of their duty to study. perfect and
extend in every practicable way, the
system of public instruction Of the ter.
ritory, and to bring it within the reach
of as many as possible, especially
since it appears that the question is
now receiving their careful attention.
Under these circumstances your
committee is of the opinion that the
of a commission to con-
slider this matter is unnecessary and
would merely lead to duplication of
work Accordingly your committee
that the resolution be
tabled"