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

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I K ;-j =3r b { , zx F -T n ii APPLIED SCIENCE The present College of Applied Science was founded in 1920 when the University of Hawaii was established. Following the present trend in educa- tion toward a better and broader foundation in the basic sciences, specialized instruction is now offered in sugar technology, agriculture, botany, entomology, chemistry, engineering, geology, home economics, and the pre-medical course. Some of the graduates of this college have made their way into professions supported by the territory while others have found opportunities to challenge their ability and training in mainland institutions and in foreign technical firms. It is the problem of the present generation of technically trained graduates to readjust our economic conditions so that there may be no recurrence of the economic difficulties of today. Already, specialists trained along technical lines have undertaken to solve our problems. Arthur R. Keller Dean Benjamin O. Wist Dean TEACHERS COLLEGE The missionaries who came to Hawaii found them- selves too few to deal with the task of teaching everyone. So they taught adults, and sent them out as instructors. This may be said to have been the beginning of teacher-training activities in Hawaii, The next step taken for the preparation of teachers was the establishment of Lahainaluna School in 1831, an institution which throughout the period of mis- sionary dominance supplied the demand for trained teachers. In the early days of the republic Punahou and Kamehameha gave attention to this need. The Normal School, organized in 1894, supplanted teacher-training efforts in the Honolulu High School. The merger in 1931 of the Normal School with the University of Hawaii ' s school of education provided this territory with a modern teachers college of high standard, and of great potentialities in an unparal- leled social setting. V I D s r F

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K t A. [- f-: L y - iL LEONOKA . lill.GEK Iakoi.u S. Palmer ThaynE M. Livesay Gekalu R. Kinnear Mary P. PkinglE U1IVER§I¥¥ orriCER§ The dean of women, Leonora N, Bilger, has under her care the arrangement of the University calendar, which includes dances given in the gymnasium, assemblies, and all club meetings, and the supervision of securing outside work for the girls. Dean Bilger also teaches organic chemistry in the Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture. All clubs on the campus hand in to Gerald R. Kinnear, treasurer of the University, their books to be audited at the end of the year. Dr. Thayne M. Livesay acts in the double capacity of director of admissions and direc- tor of the summer session. He directs the admission of all applicants to the University, and selects those who are best Qualified to profit from a university education. He also has general charge of the six-week mid-summer session, at which time visiting professors from other universities are included on the faculty. Dr. Harold S. Palmer, chairman of the comittee on graduate study, expects to award this year about 15 to 20 degrees in the fields of education, history, political science, and biology. Mary E. Pringle, head librarian, has in her charge 76,000 volumes. In addition to these, there are on the shelves of the library 264,000 magazines and pamphlets. The Library of the Institute of Pacific Relations is maintained on the top floor of the same building. Helen B. MacNeil, the registrar, has had to look after the records of 1749 students this year. There has been an in- crease in the enrollment of part-time students, while the un- dergraduate and the graduate divisions have remained the same in enrol lment. Two hundred and fifty degrees will be awarded by the University in June this year. Of this number, 113 are de- grees of B. A., 63 are degrees of B. S., and 84 are of Ed. B. Helen B. IVFacXeil ,L :-5 E

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K .Z l- y L- . C f l William H. George Dean ARTS AND SCIENCES The College of Arts and Sciences may be regarded from three points of view. First, it may be thought of as providing four years of general higher educa- tion; secondly, as providing ground work in the fields of humanistic, social, and scientific subjects upon which the structure of technical and professional education may be built; thirdly, as a unit offering preparation for a series of its own specialized voca- tions, such as research and creative activity in the arts and sciences. Its curriculum includes languages, art, history, economics, political science, sociology, biological sciences, commerce, literature, and drama- tics. Four fields of study a re open to the choice of the students — social sciences; languages, literature and art; natural and physical sciences; and econom- ics and business. THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE The primary object of the Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture is to coordinate the facilities of the University of Hawaii and the Agricultural Experi- ment Stations of Hawaii in fostering the highest type of scholarship in creative research in the fundamental sciences as applied to agriculture. Neither the num- ber of students enrolled nor the number of degrees granted is to be considered a measure of the work of this unit of the University. The entering students must be prepared for research, with their routine in- formational courses complete. The problems attacked by the staff and students are problems related to the agricultural industries of the territory. The first degree of doctor of philosophy was granted in 1933 to John S. Phillips who already held three degrees from Oxford University. Royal N. Chapman Dean n i= i=i : .