waii. In 1908 it was organized as a college of 
agriculture and mechanic arts. The first classes 
were held in temporary buildings. In 1912 a per¬ 
manent home was completed in Manoa valley, on 
a site comprising 91 acres. The college, as it 
was when the institution became a university, is 
known as the College of Applied Sciences. A Col¬ 
lege of Arts and Sciences has been added and 
numerous other advances made. Courses in sugar 
technology are a specialty of the curriculum. A 
laboratory for zoological study, specializing in 
marine biology, has been built on the grounds of 
the Aquarium at Waikiki. 
The Kamehameha schools, one for boys (opened 
1887) and one for girls (opened 1891), were 
founded and are maintained under the provisions 
of the will of Bernice Paualii Bishop. The first 
prospectus, issued in 1885, announced that “while 
they will be conducted with special reference to 
advantages to be afforded to Hawaiians by prefer¬ 
ence, as the will requires, they will not he exclu¬ 
sively Hawaiian. The course of study will re¬ 
quire several hours of manual labor every day, 
the controlling purpose of the school being to fit 
the hoys to take hold intelligently and hopefully 
of the work of life.” 
Among other important Honolulu private schools 
are Honolulu Military Academy, Mid-Pacific 
Institute (Mills School and Ivawaiahao Semi¬ 
nary), St. Louis College, St. Andrew’s Priory, 
and the school of the Convent of the Sacred 
Hearts. 
A famous educational institution is the Iio- 
hala Girls’ School on the Island of Hawaii. It 
was founded by the Rev. Elias Bond in 1871 for 
the purpose of teaching Hawaiian girls the fun¬ 
damentals of education, the simple arts and do¬ 
mestic science. 
The Hilo (Hawaii Island) Boarding School is 
one of the oldest schools in the Islands, dating 
back to 1836, when it was established by Rev. 
D. B. Lyman and the Rev. Titus Coan. Elemen¬ 
tary tool work and industrial training were well 
started in this school by “Father Lyman” 40 
years before the founding at Boston (1878) of the 
first manual training school on the American 
mainland. In the early days it served w T ell in 
producing teachers, preachers and intelligent agri¬ 
culturists. 
The Maunaolu Seminary, at Paia, Maui Island, 
was established in 1860 by the Rev. C. B. An¬ 
drews. 
The Pan-Pacific Union, originated by Alex¬ 
ander Hume Ford of Honolulu, an organization 
representing the lands about the greatest of oceans 
and supported by their governments, has for its 
object the greater advancement of and co-opera- 
' tion among all the races and peoples of the Pa¬ 
cific. It works chiefly through the calling of con¬ 
ferences at Honolulu, where delegates from all 
nations engage in friendly discussion for the 
furtherance of common interests. 
Already results demonstrate closer friendly and 
commercial contact and relationship. Though the 
Union is but eight years old it has brought to¬ 
gether in mid-Pacific many world leaders in edu¬ 
cation and science and has developed and popu¬ 
larized its paramount idea to the point where an¬ 
nual Pan-Pacific conferences are systematically 
arranged wel 1 ahead and are consummated with 
enthusiasm and a profit reaching far into the 
future. 
The first Pan-Pacific Scientific Conference was 
held in August of 1920. In August, 1921, the 
First Pan-Pacific Educational Conference con¬ 
vened. In August, 1922, is to be held the First 
Pan-Pacific Commercial Conference. “Hawaii 
will have to act as the central service station for 
the good of all Pacific lands,” says Alexander 
ITume Ford, and Hawaii is doing this very thing, 
and to a greater extent than appears on the sur¬ 
face. 
President Harding told Mr. Ford, when the 
Pan-Pacific Union secretary was last in Washing¬ 
ton, that he would come to the Pan-Pacific Com¬ 
mercial Conference next August if Ford could 
give him a good excuse for getting away. The 
President suggested that immediately after the 
close of the commercial conference would be an 
excellent time to call a congress of “presidents 
and premiers from all Pacific countries.” Presi¬ 
dent Harding, by the way, is honorary chairman 
of the World’s Press Congress at Honolulu (Oc¬ 
tober, 1921). 
Charles B. War ren, American ambassador to 
Japan, said recently, while passing through Hono¬ 
lulu : “Hawaii is the testing ground in establish¬ 
ing relations between the United States and the 
Far East. It is a community like Hawaii which 
has provided the necessary environment for a 
proper racial understanding. Here the people of 
east and west mingle in everyday life, not as 
aliens to each other but as fellow citizens. I re¬ 
gard Hawaii as the cornerstone in the founda¬ 
tion of international good will.” 
Interested in the plan of a Pan-Pacific Y. M. 
C. A. congress being held at Honolulu, Charles 
W. Harvey, national secretary of the Y. M. C. A. 
in China, says: “I am more than ever impressed 
with the strategic importance of Honolulu in rela¬ 
tion to the development of friendship about the 
Pacific. All the countries about the Pacific are now 
going through a period of readjustment and there 
is great need for interchange of thought. The com¬ 
ing conference (disarmament) at Washington is 
centering the eyes of America as never before upon 
the Pacific. This will naturally bring more of 
America’s leading business men to seek informa¬ 
tion about various social and educational as well 
as industrial and political conditions in the Pacific 
countries.” 
At the request of Dr. Walter Williams, dean of 
the school of journalism of the University of Mis¬ 
souri, president of the Press Congress of the 
World, one day of the congress is set aside for the 
THE PAN-PACIFIC UNION 
