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Memorial building.

More trench-digging was now required both at Bishop Hall and
at the university site and safety drills had to be adapted to the
new conditions. Seventh and eigth grade boys designed and dug
some 200 yards of covered trenches. In the course of months,
public authorities provided covered shelters on the university
grounds like those which appeared in all the city parks. They
offered greater safety, probably, but their dark, ill-ventilated
interiors were most unpleasant during drills. Since there was not
room for everyone in these shelters, many of the students were
cared for, during alarms in the main building, where they squatted
in the halls, away from windows, or under tables in classrooms.
New questions arose. Should windows be closed, in preparation
for gas attack, or left open to minimize the danger from flying
glass if bombs fell? No one knew the answer. And no one who
was there will ever forget the fantastic appearance of the children
on May Day, 1942. They were all wearing leis in honor of the
day, and when the siren sounded they donned their gas masks as
well and crawled under the tables looking like a weird menagerie.

Planning a war-time schedule at the new site was far more
satisfactory than it had been in January, but there were still many
restrictions which fixed the pattern for the school schedule. The
Military Government set the opening hour at 8:30, to relieve
traffic congestion on the bus lines. Early blackout precluded
late afternoon activities. Most of the students were still carrying
part-time war jobs in town or in their suddenly maid-less homes,
so a single session was adopted, with four hour-long class periods.
In the absence of a boarding departent, children from the other
islands fround homes, if they could, with friends in town, but many
had to stay at home and attend neighborhood schools, or be evacu-
ated to the mainland

Facilities for science laboratory work and for the use of Cooke
Library books presented serious problems at first. Eventually,
physics equipment was set up in the classroom and young chem-
ists used the university laboratories. Courses had to be adapted
to these changes.

The librarians struggled to establish some kind of service to
the school from the basement of Bishop Hall, providing class-
room collections wherever possible and establishing a branch
library for the elementary school. The lease for the second year
at the university gave Punahou the use of the Teachers' College
lubrary room which had been locked theretofore. Its books were
almost all technical ones, of little use to high school pupils.
Rearrangement was indicated, and carried out during the summer
by the librarians with the aid of Mr. Rust and his faithful truck
and some help by the Engineers. The Teachers' College books

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