The Pacific era
Subtitle: a collection of speeches and other discourse in conjunction with the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the University of Hawaii
By: ed. by William Wyatt Davenport; foreword by Gregg M. Sinclair.
Contributors: Davenport, William W., ed.
Publisher: Univ. of Hawaii Press
Published: 1948
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Education.; Civilization, Modern.; Pacific Ocean.; Hawaii -- Politics and government.
Table of contents: title: The Pacific era. Science and men in the Pacific era, by Charles Seymour. Recent social trends in the Pacific, by J.F. Steiner. Technological progress and the Pacific society, by K.T. Compton. Obligations to public service in the Pacific era, by Charles Seymour. The role of the university in the Pacific, by K.T. compton. Resolved: That Hawaii should be granted statehood; debate between Stanford University and the University of Hawaii.- Higher education. The liberal arts college in the modern university, by H.L. Bevis. Education and the public service, by H.L. Bevis. Mainland college life in missionary times, by G.F. Whicher. What now in European education? By P.L. Dengler. University education in Great Britain and America, by F.G. Mann. Education in old and new China, by William Hung. Ke kula nui, by Willard Wilson.- The atomic age. From the threshold of the atomic age, by K.T. Compton. Freedom and obligation in American democracy, by Charles Seymour. On freedom of worship, by K.T. Compton. University contributions to foreign policy, by Charles Seymour. Poetry and civilization, by G.F. Whicher.