The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-06-18

Alexander the Great. once the ancients were known
To claim for their hero high praise
But here in our midst has experience shown
A greatness that rivals those days.
a greatness of patience, OF courage, of heart.
OF gentleness true and rehned,-
OF research profound, with a love for each art
That sweeteus and strengthens the mind.
The pruning and culture he gave to his charge
Is ever remembered with love.
We know a reward for his labors so large
Is waiting TO greet him above.
And now meath the wide spreading shade of our tree
Two Churches raise heavenward their spires.
Through ten earnest years they endeavored to be
True guides for LIES noblest desires.
Through heat and through cold, mid the sunshine an
They stood at their post undismsyed;
No duty e'er met them, they feared to perform,
or joy, but they gladly repaid.
To prove that the ecclesiastical work
Was thoroughly done, is our hopei
The past says itself, there were men in the kirk
Two Parsons, three Bishops, one Pope.
The influence the Churches exerted will last
While twigs round the present. stem twine,-
But turn we our thoughts to the time nearer past
And see the light steadily shine
Through years, when staunch AHlasa Pratt took the lea
In training ideas how to shoot.
His record abroad ranked him sure to succeed
| And show for his labors much fruit.
And what better proof do we need of his drill
So tireless and earnest withAl
But this, the Trustees have recalled him to fill
A seat in our dear College Hall.
We welcome his coming, assured of his zeal
In all that is highest and best,
And years yet to come, will his efforts reveal,
When toll is succeeded by rest.
The President now in the Chair needs no praise
To heighten his standing and worth;-
The sun of sound knowledge meier shed brighter rays
Since first he illumined the earth
Than now, DER the thorough and vigorous strokes
Each day sees impaired with power;
The spirit of learning such ardor invokes
That mind grow apace every hour.
But while we have paused with brief mention to note
The Presidents early and late,
We do not forget, that the work to promote,
Took helpers of number one rate.
Each chief had a staff, wherein women took rank
With men in the training of brain.
For music, and arts varied branches, we thank
These fair gifted teachers again.
We stay not to call each true helper by maine
Alumni know well, every one;-
Their mem,ries can surely from every one claim
A love and respect richly won.
And now after forty gears struggle and growth,
Our Seeding a tree all behold;
Its friends, a review of the past nothing 10th,
Ask proofs Of the t0oyk to be told,
Go forth through the earth where Alumni have gone,
Invade each department. of life,
anu w II the OTu VI tHt uet OOVc,
Apply not to most in the strife.
You surely will find an Armstrong for the right
Fulfilling the teachings of youth,
While Andretos, and GuIictS and Judds all delight
In furthering justice and truth.
The C5ans and Forbes, Aleranders as well
Have taken high stand in the world
The Cookes, Plrkers, Garks, Kinneys, Cutters, all tell
OF blows at the enemy hurled
The BaHeys. the Whitneys, the Htchcocks and Bonds
Have won for themselves varied fames.-
While HiHebraHd, Foster and COTIoin beyond,
Have witnessed no Lack of high Ersmes (aimsl.
Though toilsome the way, yet the man that in spite
OF trials untold, can (e'er) h-1cin
High rank mid his fellows, by toll day and night
Proves grit of the first class, within.
No Fyttias CLOVIS on the lists of the past,
But Damons you know there were four,
While DaridS and JGnattans come thick and fast,
In running the history DER.
We stand meath the shade of our tree and behold
How the landscape stretching away
Is heightened in beauty by culture untold,
So silently wrought day by day.
On one side, the Hoods with their FIora are seen,
The other, fair P1rkeS meet our eyes,
Where Lilies and flowers de Luce mid the green
Oft Hyde as we seek them to prize.
A charm leads us on, and we see that Tisdale
And meadow, repeated again.
We find the Fairbanks the old perfume exhals
The Burbanks as blooming remain.
The Martins are singing their songs overhead,
The CdHp-beHs are ringing afar,
While notes from the FNfe Ger our senses are shed
Like music from some distant star.
Ere wandering far to school days we return,
For live stock we plainly perceive,
At first we MteayS, then a For plain discern,
While four noble Lyons take leave
OF snug leafy bowers, as nearer we draw;
Their keeper assures US the while,
The Wilder they are, they are wholly in awe
Of a Lambs slightest motion and smile.
See scattered around meath the shade denser grown
Retreats for the weary called Booths,
While off in the distance MOre-homses are shown
Right down to the water in truth.
And here in the midst of the spot choicest kept
Our musical Hall has it's place,
While dotting the peaks, by the winds often swept
Nine Castles of learning we trace.
We note a brief Winter with Snol0 on the ground
When C5t5uyn(ed was grateful to ALL
We mark a small crop of fine Oats, and around
To keep out stray Walkers, a Wall.
We must not forget all the Smiths of the time,
Who wrought every branch in their line;
Nor eight lustrous Dinonds, our own sunny cline
Produced, unsurpassed, here to shine.
Though free from the slur by mixed color implied
And finding in plainest of terms,
That Blacks, Whites and BROWNS, even Greens oft hsve We'd
In feasting on classical germs.
Yet also we linda :" bon ton" in the past,
Supported by names widely known,
Where AHeton, Thurston and RentoH hold fast
With Turton in this social zone.
The Weights that were Hardy, with Ways light and Say
And those you could Pierce andIGriere too,
With Ladds that were Fuller of fun every day,
And Frear from cares leaden hue,
Are found on the list of the happy, who drank
From PuHahou's spring ever clear,
Where Poor, and the Neek, and the Sduidge, took rank
In Kings, and high ChamberEains sphere.
Though children the most part, the pupils have been
We find a felo names where the man,
Has taken a place mid the ranks, there TO win
A place for himself, if he can.
a Chapman stands forth, with two GH-mans neSr by,
And Ly-maHS cen numbering ten
A Wdke-Ban, a AoSs-Dlan, three Shipmdns descry
While LiSh-Han and SiU-man all ken
We find Scottish names represented quite wen,
a Malcolm, a Douglas, a Wallace, and Bruce,
And bark to the list of the Macs that will swell
The roll, as 1 each introduce.
Makes and AcGre0S, and MdcFdrtdnes have been
In days long ago, while Mcguire,
M Lean, and MeDougal and yet a AcQuee0-
Ere winds up the list Mcintyre.
A new generation has come to the fore,
The fathers old places to I'll.
See Addm-Son, Gibson, and Dickinson pore
O'ar sfndies sO sadly nm hill