The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-02-20
Maui High School To
Be In Cornell Games
Will Send Track Team For March
13.-VOcal Music New Feature
School Badly In Need Of Physical
Training Apparatus.

On Monday of this week the Stud
ents' Association of the Maui High
School voted t. enter a track team
in the Cornell games to be held in
Honolulu on Saturday, March 10. This
track meet which is held every year
under the auspices of the Cornell Club
of Hawaii is participated in by all the
large secondary schools of Honolulu.
Up to the present time no teams from
the other islands have competed.
Although the formal application for
entry has not yet been sent in, the
school has received word from Homo
lulu that entrance of a Maui High
School team would be welcomed and
arrangements for its entertainment
would be made.
The boys will go steerage so that
the total expenses of the trip will be
but $50 or $40. Part of this the
school plans to raise by it's annual
play and musical entertainment.
Keen competition for place on the
squad has already started as only
those boys will be taken on the trip
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Physical Culture Emphasized
Maui High School has organized two
important courses this week. Four
classes in physical training under the
direction of Miss Mary Couch have
been enrolled. Every freshman and
sophomore girl has eighty minutes of
physical instruction and playground
work per week. Grades five, six,
seven and eight have one period a
week under Miss Couch.
Physical measurements are being
taken. These tests are height, weight
pull up on the horizontal bar, and
chest expansion. Similar tests will be
made at the close of the course in
June.
Charts, bulletins and data she wing
what tests a boy or girl of given
height and age should meet have been
furnished by Mr.. Childs, of the Alex
lnder House Settlement, and the
school has been a veritable Office of
weights and measure this week.
Equipment Needed
The school is absolutely without
Indian clubs, dumb-bells or gymnasium
eq~ ipment of any kind, but is making
up in enthusiasm what it lacks in
tools" The crying need is for a
gymnasium floor with adequate dress
ing room accommodations. gymnasi-
I'M of the partially open-air or "pavil-
ion" type is especially needed.
Although the physical training work
is more or less an experiment and is
starting upon a truly shoe-string basis
it bids fair to be a very successful
branch of the schools activities.
Music Course Inaugurated
Instruction in music has been in
augurated in the Maui High and Gram
mar School under the direction of
Mrs. j. c. Villiers. Vocal instruction
is being given in every grade from
grade n to the senior year in high
school. The high school singing will
take the form of choral work. A
freshman girls glee club has been
formed.
Mrs. Villiers is exceptionally well
qualified to handle such classes and
the students are enthusiastic. Maui
High and Grammar school hopes to be
able to show the public what it can
do along musical and dramatic lines
a little later in the school year.
New Teacher Arrives
Miss Elva Robertson, who was ap
pointed to teach the seventh and
eighth grades at the Maui High and
Grammar School has arrived on Maui
and assumed her new duties at Ha-
makuapoko. Miss Robertson comes
from Detroit, Michigan, and has had
a number of years in grammar school
work as well as several years educa-
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