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

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PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY DAVID L. CRAWFORD In spite of depression difficulties your Uni- versity has continued its forward progress. Not quite as many students are in attendance this year as compared with last year, but in general quality they arc superior and a more serious attitude is characteristic of them. While no new buildings have risen during the year, much has been done to improve what we have and to make the plant more effective in its service. Students have carried uncomplaining- ly the much heavier burden of tuition costs, while faculty members have shown equal cour- age in the face of salary reductions. It is tests of this kind that show the real calibre of our university group, and I am proud to be associated with you. It makes me confident that the difficulties which lie ahead, however great they may be, will be met with the same spirit of determination and good will, and with unbounded faith in the future of our institution.—David L. Crawford. [ 18 1

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FACULTY

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DEAN OF THE FACULTIES ARTHUR L. ANDREWS At the Punahou tank a few nights ago I sat for a time near a bright little boy. “It’s his very first swimming meet,” his mother ex- plained. He was much interested, and asked many questions. Is the water deep?” Are there any fish in there?” What is that man doing with that book?” Meanwhile various divers were exhibiting their skill in various ways; but the little boy hardly saw them. Even the two-and-a-half” failed to catch his at- tention. How far, I was led to wonder, are we like the little boy. The curtain is up on the great stage of human events. Arc we watching the play or the ushers? Was the Roman youth of the early Christian centuries concerned with the events that marked the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” or only with gladiatorial shows and doles and soldiers’ bonuses? To the Italian youth of the Renaissance” was Dante any- thing more than just another writer, or Coper- nicus other than a crank with a crazy idea? Did the German youth of the Reformation” see in the activities of Luther anything beyond a noisy church squabble? On the world-stage of to-day events arc taking place that may be just as vital as have marked any of the great crises of the past. The very form of our civilization may be af- fected. Arc we watching these events with an intelligent interest? Are we preparing to play our parts?—Arthur L. Andrews. I 19 J