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

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One of llie lorfiot cliivwr in lli - I 'nivrmily i« ll c froliiiwm political science lorUi» group. Ails and Sciences Three decades ago the present I .'Diversity of Hawaii was established by act «I the I er- rilorinl Legislature, following a resolution framed by Wallace R. Farrington, later to become governor of Hawaii, and introduced bv Senator William Coellio of Maui. In 1007 the university was known as the C ol- lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. In- struction began in the following year with two instructors and five students in the old Chinese consulate, back of Lincoln school on Young street. In 191 I the cumbersome name of College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts was changed to College of Hawaii. Not very long after, the campus was moved to the present site in Manoa Valley. OJA movement to elevate the status of the college to that of a full edged university begun in 1018 and two years later the name was changed to the I niversitv of Hawaii with the addition of a College of Arts and Sciences,; 0J I he College of Arts and Sciences, which is made up of four groups—Social Sciences; Languages. Literature and Art: National and Physical Sciences: and Economics and Business—has a two-fold purpose. Its first aim is to make |K ssihlc a comprehensive and thorough ac- quaintance with those fields of thought and achievement, both in the humanities and the sciences, upon which our present civilization has been reared. It seeks, also, to prepare stu- dents for those activities which are profes- sional rather than technical in nature. I here are 781 students enrolled.

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one semester ol graduate work, students lake charge of classes in their respective fields. (IJ Prospective vocational agriculture and home economics teachers receive their under- graduate preparation as registrants of the College of Applied Science, receiving the Bachelor of Science degree. Basic profes- sional education courses, including practice leaching, are required. I he fifth year work parallels that of I cnchers College students. 1’iiiM iihil ni lli«' I «Millers College t'.letncn- Ion- nnd Intermediate Softool whore senior students le,i li lor nine weeks i. Ml Ida J. Caro. .Ninth grade | ii| ils coin prnclienl experience in finnnic hy running llte »»linol I milk.

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In addition to playing nl KOTC parade , the l i- vewlly « 1 Hawaii hand furnidirs inu»(c lor Jill id- eation like assemblies, and at lootl all ganiev The music deportment now offer course by Frit I hut. Verne Waldo Thonipjon, Carl C. I Inn- coy. anil vocal music by Mr . Dorothy Kahananui. Offered in tl»e art depart mut arc course in oi faulting, free-hand dmw ntJ. commercial art. am Irci.'i» Invlmil'i'