Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-06-22
real to you, and your heart should
march to the music of the spheres.

real to you, and your heart should
march to the music of the spheres.
THE EXERCISES.
Long before the opening hour
the large double room of the
senior class of the High School
was filed with pupils, parents and
friends, even to chairs placed in
all the spaces not occupied by
desks. Then seats we're provided
in the spacious grand hall of the
once palace, only to be speedily
filed also. Rev. Alex. Macintosh
asked the audience to join HMM re.
peating the Lords prayer, which
being done he offered up an ex-
tempore prayer.
Miss Ada Gertz initiated the
music of the evening by solo on
the piano evincing much pro-
ficiency. Several songs were de-
lightiDgly sung by the school, in
the course of the exercises, Pro
fessor j. w. Yarndley being the
director. A solo. "Fiddle and l."
sung by Miss Kate King, with
violin obligato by Professor
Yarndley, gave keen pleasure.
Also, a trio with chorus of
girls.
Essays were read by graduating
pupils as follows: "Some Changes
in the Reign of One Monarch
having reference to the Diamond
Jubilee of Queen Victoria,-by
Miss Lishman; "Coral Reefs" by
Norman Brown; 1.-TWO Visits to
Honolulu" by Miss King. They
displayed industry of research
and study as we'll as excellence in
composition.
Miss Stella Love showed fine
Evolutionary ability in the recita-
ton, "Laca," and Miss Lemon
very prettily recited, "a Legend
of Breganz."
After the President had deliver
ed his address, Principal NJ. M.
Scott presented their diplomas to
the graduates. 1t had occurred to
him, in the course of the exercises,
to wonder how far the progress of
education could be traced back.
His mind carried him back to grs-
duation ceremonies that might
have taken place a hundred years
ago-what happened in England
on such occasions. Thence, farth-
er back to the schools of Rome,
Greece and Egypt. His thoughts
took him back even to theAssy rians
and Babylonisns, when writing
was done on bricks, and he
wondered if the President
would, in such times, come to
those exercises with his manu-
script in his hands-or rather q
pocketful of bricks. daughter. J
Or, if instead of his giving them
papers to carry home as diplomas,
he should give them handful Ut
bricks. He also wondered if the
instruction of those days bore re-
lation to- the daily life of the
pupils; or if the teaching
whether intellectual, physical or
moral-was designed to make
men and women better, for it not
it was not what it should have
been. Now, those whom he
addressed had gained the
elements of instruction. For years
past he had known most of them.
They had knowledge OF arithme-
tic, geography, mathematics, geo
metry, ETC., not much of anything,
nevertheless they had the elements
of all knowledge within them. The
Principal said he had noticed one
thing in their development that
had given him a great deal OF
pleasure, and the teachers had
spoken to him about it. They had
improved in character. Their
manners had been those OF
marked courtesy to teachers as
we'll as to each other. Strangers
had remarked the pleasant rela-
tons between teachers and pupils.
He exhorted them to use the
knowledge they had gained there
in the best manner. Show that
courtesy to brothers and sisters
and companions, exhibit it in the
community, and it will appeal to
your fellowmen here and finally
to a higher power. He could not
give them better advice than the
injunction of the prophet Micah
"He hath showed thee, o man,
what is good; and what doth the
Lord require of thee, but to do
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