The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-06-28
MAUNAOLU.
Closing Exercises of the East
Mani Female Seminary.

The morning of Wednesday. June
%. wac cool and bright, and 8 o'clock
found large number of patrons
and friends waiting for the opening
Of the exercises of the great day OF
the wear. This undiminished inter
est is very gratifying to the friends
of the Hawaiians, and proves the mt
ness OF the name Maunaolu Semin-
AIRY, lovingly adopted by it's members
= early in it's history.
Promptly at the hour the members
of the school entered the large hall,
which was very tastefnlly decorated
in Hawaiian style, and the exercises
opened with prayer by Rev Mr.
IIutera.
The recitations of Miss Gertrude
Stiles classes in geography, arlth-
metic. history and grammar, showed
faithful work on the part of teacher
and pupils. Miss McLennan's ad-
vanced classes in history, arlthmetlc
and algebra we're all Interested ana
interesting.
Meanwhile, in the primary room,
Miss Stiles was entertaining her
visitors with the intelligent work and
sweet voiced songs of her bright
animated girls. At signal, these
little ones filed into the large hall,
the folding doors were opened and
the audiences thrown into one for the
singing and rhetorical exercises,
,vhich were full of interest.
The essays, two on Sir Walter
Scott's poems clay of the Last Min,
strelo and LADY of the Lake" one
contrasting the Hawaiian and Eng
lish methods of getting dinner, ano
the last giving a short account o.
Miss Adelaide Proctor. followed by
an exceedingly we'll rendered recita
ton of one of her poems, were al
we'll and carefully written, and al
the recitations were admirably given
The concert recitations were gen
erallv remarked upon as excelling Il
exact unison and natural infection:
"a Practical Joke" in which
m;schieyous girl makes two peopl
think each other deaf and talk i!
shouts, was much enjoyed, and on
was heard to remark that aaothe
wear It would be we'll to tell th
school that the audience IS 6ea
then all could hear better.
We were sorry not to see SOM
thing of the work of pupil teacher
as in past years.
The singing has made very gre
;mproyement in the two years tn
Miss Gertrude Stiles has had chars
of that department and proves tn
much hard work, faithful labor al
patient drill has been given by Z
teacher, and, what is of equal II
portance, sympathetic willing etc
on the part of the pupils secure
There was little of the harsh SOU
at the beginning of word so motto
able in Hawaiian singing, caus
perhaps by the effort to separs
the succession of vowels so freque
in their language, but the tones W.
sweet and true. All the selectic
which were of high order W.
snng with much feeling, peculia
clear articulation and in exact til
The motion songs by the PRIME
Glee Club, as usual, especially ent
tanned the Hawaiians. Miss Nj
dons piano solo was very pleasl
and Miss Nspi never sang bel
than III her beautiful solo.
a pretty marching exercise OF
the right length concluded the g,
cises, after which number OF
waiians made short, pithy speed
Rev. Mr.. Lutera's being especi
enjoyed. :,
After prayer By Rev. Mr.. K
the pupils led the way from
room, followed by their friends.
so, then and there was hurry
to and fro," as some hastened a
on their long rides while others
rounded Mrs. Locke's fancy '