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that there may possibly be some misconception in some 

 quarters as to what this means for I know of no place in the 

 world where the word college as applied to institutions of 

 learning- is more of a misnomer than here in Hawaii. The 

 new college should be a college in fact as well as in name. 

 It should ultimately require the completion of a four years' 

 high school course of study as a requisite for admission to its 

 Freshman Class, and then seek to maintain strong four-year 

 courses in agriculture and in the applied sciences. For econo- 

 my's sake, at least, there should be no duplication of the work 

 done at the people's expense at Lahainaluna or of the courses 

 at Kamehameha or at any of the other schools. 



A great many similar colleges in the sparsely settled sec- 

 tions of the West have courses which are hardly better than 

 hig^h school courses, but their excuse is that there are no good 

 high schools from which to draw students. Other colleges 

 have sub-freshman or preparatory departments to meet this 

 difficulty. But with at least two schools of high school grade 

 in Honolulu and others on the way outside, the College of 

 Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, providing it has attractive 

 courses, ought to draw some students who are prepared for 

 their work. I believe, too, that for some time at least the 

 student body will not be so large as to crowd even modest 

 buildings. I trust that numbers will not ever be an induce- 

 ment for lowering ^he educational standards. 



It has been a noticeable feature of similar colleges in the 

 East that they tend more towards the mechanical and en- 

 gineering side than towards the development of agriculture. 

 The standards for this work are well established by our East- 

 ern scientific and technical schools. The college can afiford 

 only to offer courses that will give the best training. That 

 will probably mean a limited field within which the training 

 shall be adequate and thorough. It is well that the mechanical 

 industries are so closely connected with ag'riculture. Courses 

 can be planned and carried out that will prepare young men 

 for our main industry, as well as for other mechanical -pur- 

 suits in the Territory. This means not merely the training of 

 men for a trade, but also the making of skilful, thinking en- 

 gineers and mechanics. 



The main purpose of this college — especially on its agricul- 

 tural side — is to raise up leaders. This Territory practically 

 has no farms. Before it has farms and profitable products, 

 the principles of agriculture that can be successfully applied 

 to our peculiar local conditions must be studied and applied 

 not solely by the professors in the college and investigators 

 in the experiment stations, but also by farmers in the field who 

 have been trained in the science and who can tell after an 

 experiment why they have succeeded or failed. On the basis 

 of scientific experimentation by the college ]M-ofessors and by 



