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

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Teachers College The only university within a radius of 2.000 miles, spearhead of American educa- tional ideals into the Pacific, perhaps the Western institution most closely associated with the great universities of the Orient, the University of Hawaii is seeking to take ad- vantage of nunsnal opportunities. It is most famous for its work in tropical agriculture, Oriental studies, and research into the biolo gical atid sociological problems of the mingl- ing and mixtures of races. From day to day, however, it must first concern itself with training intelligent leaders and, second, with giving public service through research in the most pressing problems of Hawaii. Of the 2003 credit students, undergraduates and graduates, in the regular terms of 1935- 30. 1878 were from the islands. But 33 states were represented by 106 students from the American mainland, and the 19 foreign stu- dents came from China. Japan, Manchoukuo. India, Austria and the Philippine Islands. Thus it may be seen that while the Univer- sity is concerned mainly with local young l eople, the influence of Hawaii is being spread through the students who come here to study. Many of the latter come for gradu- ate work. The Summer Sesion, which is sclf- supporting, in 1936 gave training to 1,002 Hawaii | eople. drawn from six islands. An additional 171 came from the American mainland and from foreign countries. 'flic University spends about one-sixth of its budget for research. This includes gifts for research made by such private agencies as the Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation and the Julius Rosenwald Fund. The Rockefeller Foundation alone has given the University more than $250,000 during the last 10 years. The University experiment station is now spending in addition to its re- gular budget for research $410,000 granted by the federal government from processing tax funds in a program for the improvement of Hawaii agriculture. 29

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Agriculture Building The University today has three colleges— the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Applied Science, and Teachers College. Both graduate and undergraduate work is carried on in them. The Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture, which grants the Ph.D. degree, includes on its faculty distinguished mcml cr.s of the pineapple and sugar experi- ment station staffs. The Oriental Institute, organized in 1935. is a combination of the Chinese and Ja| ancsc departments which have been functioning in the University for 15 years, to which was added an Indian depart- ment. Although its ultimate concern is main- ly with graduate students, the Institute gives instruction to several hundred undergradu- ates. Inde| endently supported but affiliated with the University is the Hawaii School of Religion. The Cooj crativc Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics through numerous extension agents is doing educa- tional work throughout the territory. Dur- ing the last two years it has given Hawaii its first crop census, its first food inspection service, and its first weekly market survey. The home economics division, besides spon- soring 4-H club and junior demonstration work, tries to teach housewives how to make tatter and happier homes. Cooperating close- ly with the experiment station, the extension service has done much to diversify agricul- ture in the islands. The Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Sta- tion. since 1929 a joint enterprise of the University and the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture, has done valuable re- search l earing on 1 lawaii’s major industries, made discoveries which in at least one case made a now thriving minor industry possi- ble. and has done for small growers the re- search work which independently they can- not carry on. The Psychological Clinic, tasides doing research and educational work, during the 31