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High School, the Normal and the upper classes of Kameha- 

 meha. The last named vSchool, while below the grade of the 

 others in strictly college preparatory work, is equal to them 

 and perhaps ahead in scientific and mechanical work. In 

 mechanical and freehand drawing, in nature study, in domes- 

 tic science, in the scientific study of chemistry and physics in 

 relation to daily life, in scientific agriculture, and in shop work 

 of all kinds, Kamehameha will easily bear the test. In purely 

 academic work, she must be content to rank below the others. 



But for the purposes of this paper, I think that I may rightly 

 include Kamehameha in the list of schools whose students 

 will rightly claim the advantage of the new agricultural col- 

 lege. 



The presence of such a college in our midst will necessarily 

 bring changes m the course of study in all these schools, to 

 prepare young men and young women better to take up the 

 advanced work of the college. The new college is to be some- 

 thing more than a farm : and its students are to be something 

 more than tillers of the soil. The secondary schools are to be 

 the natural feeders of this college. To do this well, new 

 courses of study will need to be developed in the secondary 

 schools along scientific and agricultural lines. More nature 

 study w^ork, preliminary courses in agriculture, domestic 

 science, manual traming and allied subjects must be more 

 fully developed. 



To do the best work, the college must receive into its reg- 

 ular courses students vv^ho have some elementary knowledge 

 of these subjects. Preparation of this nature will be as valu- 

 able as work in classics, advanced mathematics or modern lan- 

 guages, admirable as these latter are. 



The elementary work the college ought not to be expected 

 to do. However, this paper does not have to deal so much 

 with what the college is to be or do as with what the sec- 

 ondary school should be to help best the college. This I be- 

 lieve the college will help determine. 



I believe fully in industrial education in the secondary 

 schools ; the training of the hand as well as the head and he'art. 

 By industrial training, I do not mean alone shop work, but 

 scientific study of every kind, also agriculture in its various 

 departments, and practical and social and civic problems. 

 Each secondary school should have its beginning courses in 

 gardening, horticulture, forestry, agriculture, as well as in 

 arithmetic and history, not only to interest the young in these 

 vital phases of life, but to arouse their love of all that pertains 

 to the plant and animal life of our universe. A school of ad- 

 vanced study in such subjects would of a right expect elemen- 

 tary work along such lines in the schools that naturally sup- 

 plied students to it. 



