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

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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