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

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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'

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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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Rev. I lenry I , ludd-cwl» student in «oft. woll-nxwluliited tones and tenches litem tin n.itive longue itl the idiindv In mldition he performs the duties and Ml eminent d n minister. . . . Professor living O. Pecker—hnis a little cubby hole in the di.l.iiit end of the library offis»', where lie assume his «hilirs its f'rench consul nn l Spanish vice consul its well a professor of llto roman»»' language . . . - Mr . Mana M. Iloer- in.mil—-tr.indates new. of the Nazi recime word for word from C temiany Slie learned the Linguace in her native land ami teaches it in Hawaii. . . A familiar scene just before a six weeks’ exam it the reserve room, where students pore over reference Itooks.