Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-05-04
PUNAH0U NOTES
Especial star.Bulletln Correspondence

/ Especial Star-Bulletin Correspondence
i PUNAHOU, May IA hundred
dollar prize is being offered to the
girl who has graduated from some
preparatory school in the Territory
and who makes the best record in the
examinations to be held at the Col
iege of Hawaii during May. This
prize is being offered by the College
Club of Hawaii The following an.
nouncement has been given out at all
the schools: Z 81
The College Club offers a scholar.
ship amounting to 500 for the year
1915-1916 to the girl who, having
graduated from any preparatory
school in the territory of Hawaii,
shall be selected by the loan fund
committee of the College Club from
among candidates who shall have,
with satisfaction to the faculty of the
College Of Hawaii a1IeieaxaniRations
In the following subjects: English,
history of the United States; algebra,
through quadratics, and plane geom-
etry.
sThe examinations shall be held In
the last week of May at the College
.of. Hawaii or elsewhere If arranged by
the college faculty. The question
papers are to be PREPARED by mem
bers Of the college faculty and the
answers graded by them. The exam.
nation IN English shall be considered
OF especial Importance.
THE recipient OF the scholarship
will receive $50 at the beginning of
the college year and $50 at the be-
ginning of the second semester, pro-
vided she has done satisfactory work
during the first semester.
The examinations will be held at
the College of Hawaii on the dates
specified, each examination begin
ming at 8 p. m. and lasting two hours.
English. May 24-The examination
in English will consist largely In the
writing Of paragraphs or short es-
says dealing in the main with the
writer's own experience 1t is not
designed to test the candidates mem
DRY of grammatical rules or Of books
studied in class, but 1t Is designed in
the main as a test of ability to OBJ
serve correctly, to think clearly and
and to express thoughts
correctly and adequately. In grading
the papers. attention will be paid to
spelling, punctuation, use of capitals,
exact and idiomatic' use of words,
correctness and even
more closely to the construction OF
sentences and of paragraphs.
History of the United States, May
25-The examination will cover the
history of the Is colonies, from the
settlement of Jamestown and of the
United States until the close of the
of William Taft, to-
,etheF with the constitution of the
United States, and the following Sec
ions of the Organic Act of the terri
DRY of Hawaii, 2-6, 1918, rs, 55, 66-67,
n, 81-S2, IS and 80. -.
Algebra, May 26-The examina-
ions will require a thorough acquain-
.ance with the fundamental opera
ions; inyolution and evolution, fac
oring, highest common factor, low
,st common multiple and simultane-
JUS equations, simple and quadratic.
Plane geometry, May 27-Ftye
looks of plane geometry, as given in
Beeman and Smith or in
'quivalent texts. will be covered by
his examination. Ability how to or.
ginate proofs and constructions, and
o Apply theorems. OF proportion and
in numerical compute.
ion will be required =. ..... 4
The chamber of commerce is offer. :
ng scholarship, for which the ex-
limitations will be held on the same
avs. The only difference between
he two is that the chamber of com.
lerce scholarship is offered to the
oy who passes highest and has the /
est average. .-.. is y
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