The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-06-24
OAHU COLOEGE 'S8
Commencement Day at the
Pioneer School.
BRIGHT CLASS or SIX
Pauahi Hall Filled - Distinguished
Audience - Flowers = Music.
The Addresses Made.

evening, all was neat and tasteful.
reasonable and pretty and interesting.
There were six graduates, four young
men and two young ladies. The class
OF '9S has as its motto EN- Avant''
and its members are: Martha NJ.
Along, W. B. Godfrey, Jr., F. F. Hede-
mann, Harry A. Kluegel, VIM. 7. Raw
Inns, Mary C. Widdifeld.
The decorations for the occasion
consisted of display of Oahu's colors,
bun and blue. Hawaiian and Ameri-
can flags and the class motto and
20 C" and '9S" in asters on fields of
green The program had been care
fully prepared and took but little more
than an hour of time President Hos
mer, with the members of the grad
uating class, occupied the platform.
The opening Invocation was by Rev.
Hiram Bingham and the benediction
was by Rev. D. P. Brine. The music
included two numbers by the Hawaii
an band orchestra, a solo by Miss
Hyde, an organ solo by Prof. ingalls,
and a song by the Oahu Glee Club.
Miss Hyde was in fine voice and gave
ooh, Thou Cruel Sea" with strong
effect. Prof. Ingalls, gave upon the
organ Dubois Grand Chorus.
President Hosmer, in presenting the
diplomas made brief address to the
class of 1898. He called their attetion
10 the more serious work of life and
TO the responsibilities attached to good
and useful citizenship. He urged them
10 live up to their motto, GO For
ward" but not TO endeavor to advance
for self alone. 1t devolved upon those
fitted for the struggles of life to assist
and uplift the weak and wandering, to
bring to bear their intelligences and
learning in the interest of all mankind.
The President announced that the Rev.
Damon scholarship prizes for the year
had been awarded to c. Ahfook and
Edwin Hall.
Following are short reviews of the
papers of the members of the grad
uaung class.
Martha NJ. Along told in her own
attractive way the old Grecian legend
OF Pandora. This beautiful woman,
endowed with the gifts of the gods
became the wife of Epimetheus, a
Titan, who believed that so beautiful
and gentle a being" could being no
evil to his household. Miss Along
told of their early welded life, spent
N perfect peace and happiness. These
were the times when they wandered
hand in hand through the forests and
over the fields of their home Miss
Along then gave briefly the story OF
the coming of dissentions, the period
Of disillusion, when angry words were
said, when evil and misery reigned
until driven away by the spirit OF
Hope
The Dreyfus Affair was the subject
selected by F. F. Hedemann who was
the next speaker. After summarizing
the principal incidents of that famous
case, in a manner which showed that
he had followed the newspaper ac-
counts of the French officers trial, he
told of the exciting trial of Emile
ZOla who violently attacked this per
nicious method. Charles 1 by his
star chamber acts caused his own
overthrow" said the speaker. Here
is an outrage worthy of medieval
-9-,ee committed 4ado- ~ +bo o-or-p
ing years of the nineteenth century
Emile Zola has lifted up his voice
against this fragrant injustice, but
France is unwilling to listen France
forsets that it is not Zola who is on
trial, but that the French nation is
still on trial before the bar of the
civilized world, and that she has al
ready been convicted in the highest
court of the nations, Of injustice al
most incredible. The French Republic
must be just or she will lose her self
respect She must recognize the eter-
nal laws OF God-His truth and right
eousness. All civilized nations unite in
the earnest hope that the day is moi
Ear distant when the passions and pre-
5udices of the French people shall
have cooled and reason shall have re-
turned TO the brain and heart OF
France" The speaker was closely
followed by his audience and the ap-
plause was generous.
The English-speaking Fraternity
was handled in a clever way by Will
lam Rawlins The discourse was a
plea for an Anglo-American alliance
The reasoning was clear. Through
the pages Of English history the de-
vOtion to the principles of freedom
and honor stand as the characters.
tics OF the English. In their earliest
days and during the succeeding age.
government of the people, for The
people and by the people" was taught
The English-spealdng race alone ha!
had an unbroken growth of popular
iibe-ty TO the present time" Tht
greet names of Englishmen wert
quoted, men who ''are all links in thu
same chain Of Anglo-Saxon progress
And 1t is the same history wherever
the English-spesking race has gone
in Canada, Australia and New Zealand
India, South Africa and the island!
OF the sea
The speaker said that 'in the Am
erican Republic and the British EN-