The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-03-30
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these many years, and as fellow
educator l welcome you 10 our ISL
aud home. And had you never
before visited these mid-Pacilic
shores never before witnessed the
beauty and loveliness of this island
gem, or experienced the balmy soft
ness of our semi-tropical cline, it
would be fitting thing for us to
extend this welcome to you in re-
cogntion of what you have done as
an educator on the Pacific slope in
the United States, and the priceless
boon you and your husband have
bestowed upon the daughters OF
California; yes, of the world, in the
establishment and equipment Of
Mills Seminary and Mills College.
We ask to add our tribute of graft
tude, and to express our apprecia-
ton of the labor, the devotion, the
wisdom, which have marked the
history of the entire work. But no
such limitation is upon us. We re-
joice in your achievements, but we
welcome you for what yon have
been to us, and done for Oahu
College.
More than a quarter Of q century
has passed since you began your
labors here, and more than twenty
years since you ceased. But the
impress made by you upon this in
stitution, and upon the children of
those adys, still remains. If l have
made no mistake in my study of the
names of the students of those
years, Ill were connected with the
College during your stay. Of the
ID boys, five are to-day members OF
our Board of Trustees; three will
be members of the next Legislature,
while several others have at different
times been chosen to that duty.
From among the boys of those years
have come many of the most success
full planters and business men of
these Islands, as well as our hest
known lawyers and physicians. The
girls of those days are the mothers
in the homes of to-day, and model
homes they are, while their children
are in our classes. Both parents
and children, in large numbers, have
extended their greetings to you in
person this evening, assuring you OF
the aloha they have for you. or
those associated with you us teachers,
l think that Prof. Alexander alone
is here, man whom the people of
these Islands love to honor for his
intrinsic worth, and large and ac-
curate scholarship. But he will be
permitted to speak for himself. The
standards of education which you
have always erected have been high.
Your desire has always been to give
a liberal education, one calculated
to equip the individual for the full
duties of manhood or womanhOod,
uniting mental power with high
character. 1t needs no words Of
mine, in this presence, to say how
well you have succeeded. You came
to Oahu College at time of need.
Under the wise and careful admins
tration of your husband, it was
launched upon a career of financial
independence it had never before
known. We have about us still
many of the improvements intro.
duced by him. And yet the Puma.
hou of to-day is much changed.
can speak freely of these recent
changes, as they were largely planned
before came. This beautiful MAR
Hall is constant source of salts
faction. The new Bishop Hall o
Science provides us with the mucf
needed equipment for that depart
ment. This grand piano, unsur
passed by any instrument of it,
class upon the Islands it is believed
is the latest acquisition in the music
department and reminds me that !
was under your administration tina
Punahou become possessed of its frs
piano for the use Of the school. Th'
recent additions to our Colleg'
Library, provided for by the genera
sity of our friends, is another i'm
portant factor made effective TO
use,
And again, we stand tonight il
the midst of our enlarged campus
and one we are planning to ador
and beautify. 1t will be years befor
it can rival the loneliness of Semi
nary Park, but, with our soil an
climate, and ''Kapunahou" itself
with its everhowing stream of water
there is no reason why we may nc
aspire even to that in time. But
am speaking too long, and yet
have not touched upon our revised
and revision is the order of the day
you know-our revised cousses {
study, or our tourishing Punaho
Preparatory School, with its lC
pupils. We feel sure there are sigl
, of life and growth for you to sec
and still we have not yet attaine'