The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-06-29
FIRST CLASS DAY.
Kamehameha Girls School
Sends Forth Graduates.
Interesting Exercises of Yesterday
Afternoon Most Credit
able Showing.

The first class TO graduate from the
Kamehameha School for Girls enter
tanned their friends yesterday after
noon with the exercises usual on such
an occasion, but in such style and so
pleasantly that the occasion will long
be remembered by those present. The
day was suspicious, "the earth was in
tune" the air balmy and the tropic
clouds furnished "just the loveliest"
awning, while the amphitheater of
mountains and ocean formed such a
view of land and sea as one would
have to travel to find equals in any
cline
The class, in their gowns of fleecy,
immaculate white, not the black robes
of medieval scholarship, occupied the
chairs Immediately in front of the
platform. The stripes and cross of the
Hawaiian flag furnished just the bit of
bright color to delight the eyes, as it
waved over the group and furnished
the drapery for the portiere.
The singing was very artistic, just
the touch of delicacy in tone and mod
ulation that Miss Clymer has such a
genius in impressing on the mind and
ear of the listener The class is fortu-
nate in having sweet voices with a
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composed by Miss Clymer, both words |
and music, was strikingly BETTING the
occasion.
CLASS SONG.
Another year has swiftly flown
And brought us on its way,
OF earnest toll, of life and love,
A new commencement day.
Behind lie childhood's joys,
Youths careless mirth and glee;
Before lie futures strange
And full of mystery.
o heart, o soul, why thus cast down,
Disquieted art thou?
Hope thou in God, whose light alone
Makes radiant the brow;
His arm has us upheld,
His presence all unseen,
Unfelt, but ever near,
Our sword and shield has been.
His love will ne'er forsake
The hearts that on him rest.
In life or death with joy
Are they supremely blest.
Now while we wait moment yet,
An undivided band,
Sing we the song to hope most dear
OF that eternal land
where loyal hearts and true
Stand ever in the light,
All rapture through and through
In Gods most holy sight"
Farewell, FAREWELL
The young ladies who essayed the
parts of historian and of prophet, told
as much truth as tombstones and for
tune tellers are supposed to communi-
cate, just enough of truth to come
pretty close to the nerves, as the point
of a needle to the point of the finger,
and the wincing showed that the wit
was as sharp as it was bright. The
tree was doubly blessed in song, and
carefully planted in soil that looked as
if any Ponciana Regia ought to grow
in such surroundings. Refreshments
were served by the junior class in cute
little caps, with the cunningest aprons,
worn as effectively as a Spanish lady's
mantilla. For style and ffttingness, it
would be a difficult matter to produce
exercises of higher order of
merit than these with which Miss Pope
into Hawaiian society this
first graduating class.
Following was the program:
Native Home. .Lysberg
Glass.
Glass History $3.50. Helen Kahaleahu
with Me. Mendelssohn
Glass.
Glass Prophecy. $50: .Keluia Kiwaha
.......... Brahms
Glass.
to Sir Lawnfal.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Lowell
Miriam Hale.
Chorus-Bless the Tree. G. f. Root
Planting of the Tree.
Chorus-The Glass Tree. &c. F. Root
Class Song. Clymer
Glass.
Glass Yell. ............K. G. S. Call