The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-04-08

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tude, and to express our apprecia.
ton of the labor, the devotion, the
wisdom, which have marked the
history of the entire work. But nc
such Limitation is upon us. We re.
joice in your achievements, but we
welcome you for what you have
been to us, and done for Oahu
College.
| More than quarter of 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 days, 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
o. 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 best
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. OF
those associated with you as teachers,
think that Prof. Alexander alone
is here, q 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
we'll 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 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. l
can speak freely of these recent
changes, as they were largely planned
before came. This beautiful Main
Hall is constant source of salts
faction. The new Bishop Hall OF
Science provides us with the much
needed equipment for that depart
ment. This grand piano, unsur-
passed by any instrument of its
class upon the Islands it is believed,
is the latest acquisition in the music
department and reminds me that it
was under your administration that
PunahOu become possessed of its first
piano for the use of the school. The
recent additions to our College
Library, provided for by the genera
sity of our friends, is another i'm
portant factor made effective for
use.
And again, we stand tonight in
the midst of our enlarged campus,
and one we are planning to adorn
and beautify. 1t will be years before
it can rival the loneliness of Semi
nary Park, but, with our soil and
climate, and "Kapunahou" itself,
with its everaowing stream of water, |
there is no reason why we may not
aspire even to that in time. But l
am speaking too long, and yet I
have not touched upon our revised
and revision is the order of the day,
you know-our revised courses of
study, or our hourishing Punahou
Preparatory School, with its 100
pupils. We feel sure there are signs
of life and growth for you to see;
and still we have not yet attained,
but we are pressing forward if that
we may attain to that which we
ought.
But cannot close without a word
OF reference to those you cannot
again greet upon the shore of time.
Alexander, and Baldwin, and Damon,
and Lyman, have passed into the
eternal life and to the reward of the
saints since my coming. Allen, and
Coan, and Hall had gone just before
l came. Father Castle alone re-
mains of the body of the Trustees
of your day, and he stands upon
the very threshold of that higher
and better life, but a pillar of strength
still, though no longer member of
our Board. OF the others of that
day l know only their names. But,
who can tell if, with your honored
husband, who has also joined that
glorious company, they may not