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stitute meeting, as to hold that this college must produce only 

 farmers. 



I think this college should be in Hawaii what similar col- 

 leges are and have been on the mainland — an institution w^here 

 the young men and women can obtain a college education and 

 follow the couise of study that best suits their ambition. 



Presumably future legislators of Hawaii will rise up and 

 cry out as they have done year after year in my home State, 

 "Where are your farmers? Where- are your farmers?" The 

 college will fili its m^issipn if it tuns out well educated men 

 and women, whether they elect to go into the cane field and 

 hoe, or into the chemical laboratory. Its purpose should be. to 

 furnish the opportunity for advanced education. If this be 

 satisfied I am willing to leave the rest with the young people 

 of our Territory, i believe the college will be here as else- 

 where in the country — a perfect success. 



EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS TOR THE COLLEGE OP 

 AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS. 



By Avthiir E. Griffiths, President Oahii College. 



The more I consider this problem of the founding of the 

 new College of Agriculture and Alechanic Arts and the estab- 

 lishment of proper courses in it, the less easy seems the solu- 

 tion. It is going to be difiicult for instance to plan a course 

 for a college which has no site or buildings or students in a 

 country where there are no farms. It is not going to be pos- 

 sible to follow entirely, or n^iuch, the lines laid down by the 

 experience of other colleges ; it is not going to be wdse to 

 do so. 



As I understand it, the desire of the Regents of the college 

 in Hawaii is so to plan the course that it shall entitle them 

 to a portion of the Federal appropriation. That means a col- 

 lege to which perhaps no exact definition has been given, but 

 yet clearly above the grade of a high school or academy. 



The law says that the function of the college is "to promote 

 the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes; 

 its leading object to teach such branches of learning as are 

 related to agriculture and the mechanic arts * '•' * with- 

 out excluding other scientific and classical studies.'' Each is 

 under obligation to provide "instruction in agriculture, the 

 mechanic arts, the English language, and the various branches 

 of mathematical, physical, natural, economic science with spe- 

 cial reference to their applications to the industries of life." 

 In addition to agriculture and the mechanic arts, the law says 

 specifically that military tactics shall be taught. I am afraid 



