Ka Hoʻāʻo ʻElua: 1929-1930
I ka makahiki 1929 i hai ʻia ai ʻo Dr. John Wise, ka polopeka ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi ma ke kula nui ʻo Hawaiʻi, ma Kamehameha, a ʻo ka hoʻokumu hou ʻia akula nō ia o ka ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi i ka papa haʻawina. ʻO ka puke aʻo kai kākau ʻia e Midkiff lāua ʻo John Wise.
Akā, ua mau naʻe ke kapu ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi ma ke kula, a ʻo ka hoʻopaʻi ʻia akula nō ia o nā haumāna e ʻōlelo ana i ka ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi ma waho aku o ka lumi papa.
"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."
—Kawika Eyre, Ke Kula ʻo Kamehameha
I ke kupulau o ka makahiki 1931 i hoʻoholo ai ʻo Dr. Homer F. Barnes, ke poʻokumu hou o ke kula no nā keiki kāne, e hoʻopau i ka papa ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi mai ka papa haʻawina. Ua ʻōlelo ʻo ia, ʻo ia hana kai wehe ʻia ai ke ala no nā manawa kūpono e ʻimi naʻauao ai a me ka hoʻoponopono ʻana i nā haʻawina aʻo. Akā naʻe, ʻaʻole hoʻopau ia hana i nā mea i kākoʻo i ka ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi.
"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, Ke Kula ʻo Kamehameha