Attempt #2: 1929-1930
In 1929, Dr. John H. Wise, a professor of Hawaiian language at the University of Hawaiʻi, was hired at Kamehameha. Hawaiian language classes were reinstated in the curriculum. The class used a textbook written by Midkiff and Wise.
However, ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi was still prohibited in the school, and students caught speaking the language outside of the classroom were punished.
"Several years ago Papa Henry ʻAuwae met with our students and bitterly reminisced over the fact that he, too, had to leave Kamehameha about this time. Thrown out for repeatedly speaking Hawaiian."
—Kāwika Eyre, Kamehameha Schools
In the spring of 1931, the new principal of the School for Boys, Dr. Homer F. Barnes, decided to drop the class from the curriculum. He said this was supposed to allow greater opportunities for higher scholarship and adjustment of teaching loads. However, this would not stop the rising wave of Hawaiian language advocates.
"Immediately after this announcement, the staff at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum arranged for Kamehameha Schools' students to take Hawaiian culture classes at the museum in place of the dropped language classes. Lectures were initially conducted for seniors on a weekly basis, later to be published by the KS Press in 1933 in a 300-page book entitled Ancient Hawaiian Civilization."
—Kāwika Eyre, Kamehameha Schools