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

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I FACULTY DEAN WIST THAYNE M. LIVESAY EPHRAIM V. SAYERS TEACHERS COLLEGE Recently the Dean of Teachers College and two associates were privileged to make a survey of the social organization of American Samoa and to prepare an educational program adapt- ed to the needs of its people. Out of this experience have de- veloped two observations that may prove of value to pros- pective teachers. The first of these is that education of a so-called primitive people does not differ essentially from that of people accus- tomed to a more advanced social pattern. Real education is largely an individual matter. It must not be confused with either schooling or with factual knowledge. Second, that in- telligent teachers arc more essential for the success of an edu- cational program than arc all other elements of a school system. Teachers College is organized to meet the above objective. The heritage of scientific and cultural knowledge is available to its students. But of greatest significance is the effect of these upon disposition towards professional responsibility. Teachers College students have been selected as potentially capable of this obligation. The machinery for providing the necessary knowledge background has been developed. But, while essential, these arc but means to an end. And the end is sen- sitivity to the task of shaping the attitudes and habits of the generation to come in a manner that will insure intelligence. Benjamin O. Wist I 24 j FRANCIS E. PETERSON MADORAH h. SMITH

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THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE FACULTY DEAN GEORGE AN Nil-. C. B. MCPMAIL MHTON K. CAMERON CHARLES H. NEIL ARTHUR E. WYMAN JOHN WESLEY COULTER SHAO « HANOI LEE AUNA C. CLARKE IRVING O. PECKER MATTHEW M. GRAHAM HH: E»PH»H J. II A ML r The College of Arts and Sciences in the University of Hawaii is one of the units of institutional organization. Its function may be regarded from several points of view. First, it may be thought of as pro- viding four years of general higher educa- tion; second, as providing groundwork in the fields of humanistic, social and scien- tific subjects upon which to build the structure of technical and professional education; third, as a unit of offering pre- paration for a series of its own specialized vocations, such as research and creative activity in the arts or sciences. It was in 1920 that the College of Arts and Sciences was added to the College of Hawaii, and the name was changed to the University of Hawaii. In the words of an old college charter, attention Is given to the advancement of all good literature, arts and sciences” for the purpose of sup- plying cultural background, as training for research specialists, and as preparation for law and medicine, for teaching, journalism, business and public service. The history of civilization, the art and religion, of the Orient arc objects of special interest and study on account of the geographical posi- tion of the Hawaiian Islands. William H. George [ 23 1

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FACULTY dean chapman THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE The Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture of the Univer- sity of Hawaii includes within its organization members of the various scientific staffs in Hawaii who are engaged in funda- mental research in tropical agriculture. Some are at the Uni- versity of Hawaii itself, others in the Experiment Station, Association of Hawaiian Pineapple Canncrs, and at the Ex- periment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association. Through this organization the facilities of all three of these institutions are made available for advanced research work. Graduate courses of a seminar nature arc maintained during the academic year and are attended by the junior staff members and graduate students. Through the Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture, the various experiment stations may bring to the Territory promis- ing young scientists on research fellowships, giving them the advantage of the facilities of the experiment stations in com- pleting their training. It is also possible to make exchanges between the research staffs of the local institutions with those of other universities. During the past year an exchange was made between the Hawaii School and the University of Berlin. Mr. Kenneth Merns spent the year at the University of Berlin and Dr. von Kesselcr spent the year at the Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture.—R. N. Chapman. [ 25 ) HAROLD ST. JOHN LEONORA N. BILGER MAURICE LINDFORD HAROLD A. WADSWORTH