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THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC 
ARTS. 
ARRIVAL OF FACULTY. 
Professor John W. Gilmore, the new President of the College 
of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of the Territory of Hawaii, 
comes to his new field of labor with excellent qualifications. 
President Schurman of Cornell University, and other famous edu- 
cators, assure the Board of Regents of the College of Hawaii that 
they have made a splendid selection. 
President Gilmore has had a wide experience and a thorough 
preparation for the work of promoting the new institution. He 
will arrive about August 24th, accompanied by his family and 
seven or more professors, selected as members of the faculty, who 
will immediately take up the work of organizing departments and 
arranging details for the regular college work that will begin 
Monday, September 14th. The college, which has been carry- 
ing on preparatory work since last February, has its temporary 
quarters on Young street near Victoria street, expecting to remove 
to permanent quarters in Manoa Valley later, where it possesses 
a tract of excellent land of considerable acreage. During the 
past few months about $25,000 has been spent for equipments 
and a costly library. With the best talent and material. Hawaii 
may look forward to the growth of the institution into a college of 
great credit to both the Territory, and the Federal Government 
which so freely endows such institutions. 
President Gilmore was born in White County, Arkansas, in 
1872. He attended the Fort Worth (Texas) High School, and 
graduated from Cornell University with the class of 1898, re- 
ceiving the degree of Bachelor of Science of Agriculture. He 
was appointed instructor in agriculture at the Chinese Govern- 
ment Agricultural School at Wuchang, China, remaining there 
until the outbreak of the Boxer trouble when he returned to Cor- 
nell by Java, India and Europe. On his return to America he 
was appointed instructor in nature study and agriculture in the 
Honolulu Normal and Training School, where he remained for 
one year, leaving then to accept a position in the Government Ex- 
periment Station, Island of Negros, Philippine Islands, doing 
valuable work, particularly along the lines of commercial fibres. 
In the fall of 1903 he returned to Cornell University, receiving 
the degree of Master of Science in 1905, at which university the 
position of assistant in agriculture was tendered him. Last year 
he was called to the chair of professor in agriculture in the State 
Agricultural College of Pennsylvania. 
Aside from his pleasing personality President Gilmore has the 
reputation of being an excellent teacher. He now comes to this 
Territory to lead the educational work of the College of Agri- 
culture and Mechanic Arts. 
Hawaii etxends to President Gilmore and his faculty its best 
wishes and most earnest cooperation in the new undertaking. 
