University of Hawaii Honolulu - Ka Palapala Yearbook (Honolulu, HI)

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KA PALAPAIA T Ke eurtli Located as it is. where the Occident and the Orient meet on one common playground as it were, where diverse customs, peoples, and culture mingle, where tropical vegetation flourishes, the University of Hawaii has an unequalled opportunity for the study of international relations, agriculture and peoples. And the University is not overlooking this opportunity. More and more foundations and indivi duals interested in international peace are seeing in this cosmopolitan Uni- versity in the very center of the wide Pacific expanse an important agency for the advancement of research and in- struction. Occupying this strategic position, the University indeed can be- come an influential factor in Pan-Pacific affairs. Time only will reveal the sig nificant aspects of the University’s for- tunate location. And who can predict what the future has in store? The fact that Hawaii is in a very real sense a laboratory of race relations makes it seem almost inevitable that there will be developed a School of Oriental and Pa- cific Studies. Such a development will be primarily of benefit to the world at large in contributing to the solution of society's problems With adequate sup- port. this School could become a center of very great importance to the Pacific area for research and instruction in the many aspects of race relations Already the Rockefeller Foundation, through its support of a form of study, is providing for research activities in human races and their adjustment to each other in Hawaii This foundation should in time develop into the fullest extent of realiza- tion. In the fall of 1924 an agreement was entered into between the Regents and the Trustees of the Association of Ha- waiian Pineapple Canners whereby the University undertook the management of the Experiment station of the Asso- ciation. Today the Association of Ha- waiian Pineapple Canners works in close harmony with the University, support- ing and directing an extensive program of research. It was a real step forward for Hawaii [16]

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Ten Years Ago Today Between Two Decoder Hawaii until it loses its identity in the University of Hawaii. The 1911 session of the Legislature amended the act of establishment, changing the name of the college to the College of Hawaii. That legislature also appropriated $75,000 for the erection of a permanent building on the site in Manoa. The first commencement exercises were held on june 3. 1912. at the new location in Manoa Valley where Hawaii Hall was then under construction. Four gradu- ating students received the first bache- lor's degrees. Upon the resignation of President Gil- more in 1913, Professor Donagho was appointed acting dean. At the 1914 commencement the first advanced de- gree. a master of science, was granted. In 1914. the second president. Dr. Arthur L. Dean took up the task of build- ing a college on the foundations already laid. With a strong board of regents headed by Wallace R Farrington, then governor, the new president pushed for- ward. Several years of this steady prog- ress induced the community, by the initiative of Mr. William Kwai Fong Yap. to petition the Territorial Legisla- ture in 1919 to broaden the scope of in- struction of the College and make it a university Accordingly, the college be- came the University of Hawaii in 1920. In 1927 Dr. Dean left the presidency and David L. Crawford was selected as the third to occupy this office. Transition from college to university in- volved two significant changes: the pro- gram of instruction was extended to in- clude much more than the original pro- gram of agriculture and mechanic arts: the scope of service was broadened be- yond instruction, to include research and extension activities as well as other forms of public service. The potentialities in this cosmopolitan University in mid-Pacific as an agency in international peace are not difficult to realize. More and more is the University of Hawaii making the wide field of the Pacific its campus, with a larger future before it. Only recently an endowment for a dormitory was received from the Atherton family of Honolulu. MS]

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9 3 1 when recently the Federal Experiment Station in Honolulu formally joined forces with the University in a larger program of research than either could reasonably undertake alone. This new experiment station, controlled and sup- ported jointly by the United States De- partment of Agriculture and the Uni- versity. is directing its resources and re- search energies toward the solution of some fundamental problems of tropical agriculture in Hawaii with constant ef- fort to coordinate its work with that of the two large privately-controlled experi- ment stations. Already the dream of a School of Tropi- cal Agriculture has become a reality. With the recent appointment of Royal N Chapman, next year will see the op- eration of this School, drawing for its resources from the experiment stations of the sugar and pineapple associations in a cooperative arrangement with the University whereby the laboratories and technical staffs of all three institutions will be available to the School for pur- poses of instruction. This School will of- fer special training for specialists of ad vanced standing. Engineering experiments, the out- growth of an engineering testing labora- tory which has been in operation for many years, have already a place in the University. Research problems in engi- neering in Hawaii, pertaining both to agriculture and manufacturing indus- tries. as well as other problems affecting home and city life, come within its scope. The past decade has witnessed the many epochal changes outlined above. These have come in each case as a response to a definite need or demand. It seems in- evitable that in the next decade there will be a necessity for further enlarge- ment. Today’s needs may or may not be sufficient for the needs of the present. Ten years from today, undoubtedly, to- day's facilities will not suffice for the expected growth that is bound to come. In expectation of such a growth in the future, the University is always planning for the days that are beyond and to come. Even now events are occurring. Sot 13! [17]