The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-08
Win THEIR
PARCHMENTS
Graduating Exercises
at Kamehameha.
DIPLOMAS FOR MANY BOYS
Pretty Scenes at the School Gymna-
SUM = Class Of twenty
Three Graduates.

School days ended for twenty three
young men of the Kamehameha Manual
school last evening when the class of
1900 held its graduating exercises. A stur-
dy lot of lads they looked as they sat
upon the platform in the charmingly dec
rated gymnasium and made their fare
we'll bow in the presence of a throng of
,neir friends and weil-wishers.
1t was scene that the graduates will
,ong remember. The big hall was Dr..
liant wan lights ana gay wan hawaiian
Lays ana festoons of MOWERS. Native Ha-
| ~stIiahs IN white uuckS sober back
and white RESIDENTS by the hunared nl4ed
| very available inch of floor space in the
4 InnasIufn ana vigorously appiauded
me addresses and ESSAYS and songs of the
youhg graduates.
hev. NJ. J. Ezera gave the invocation
dnd then, after a song by the Glee Club,
Hen. w. o. Smith made the annual ad
dress to the students and graduates on
Dehalf of the trustees. Air. smith )
theme was Success" and he said that
rue success lay not, the world too
often thinks, in making money or ac-
curing power or influence, but in max
.ng the best possible use of the talents
gwen by the Creator. Power and int1u-
ence were often the outward evidence OF
! rue success, but a man might live an
Sbscure life and might be considered a
| failure by his fellows; yet If he had
| fought out his battles manfully and done
us uutS dl dh tIHleS ana mad not let his
-alents go TO waste for lack of use he
| iced not reproach himself or feel regret
! mat he had not attained the more mate
| rial rewards in life.
In the salutatory Samuel punuhi call
| ed to mind the hospitable treatmen,
which was always accorded by the ISL
dnders to the new-come malihini and in
| he same spirit of hospitality bade m,
audience welcome Joseph Aea gaya
very creditable essay on Abraham In
com. James Ontai spoke on Manual
t ram and its practical results in
che work they would take up in afte,
life: The Influence of Agriculture or
G Gnnr,. was the theme treated by
Henry kapea, while John Vannatta
spoke on The War in South Africa >
giving lucid explanation of the cause.
| IeauihS up TO the war and a Dissertation
~ rat oa,e Status OF affairs at present. illus
| Hardee described the CONSTRUCTION of .
! l'athe, illustrating his remarks with IN.
me piece OF machinery that has beer
oulit by the students during the pas
Inc Valedictory was by John Pluukett
| me president of the class and one of lis
brightest members - ''
! In presenting the diplomas Mr. Tbom,,
SON. principal of the school made n brist
anu graceful address. saying that h.
h horS 70 near much good of the mem
peTs OF the Class when they passed oIIt
ftnto the work of life Kafneham.sha 81
Iers much to her boys, he said. and IN
1 r. she expects much OF her men
ne uipiomas given. her students were
NOT me evidences of what the students
were but what their teachers consider
su them. and it was the hope of AIN VIII,
had watched the course of the member
| Oh tne CLASS through the school that theI
I would be found worthy to he GALE
graduates of Kamehameha school.
/ ,Nreathed with leis. the members of III,
lass came forth in turn to receive the;,
Suarq-earned parchments. and then Rev
.. Desha pronounced the benedictior
anu tne class OF 1900 were no longer stu
utnI nus put alumni of Kamehameha School
roiowlng are the members of the class
J0hn Plunkett, president: Joseph Kai
P9nn0ea Aea, Frederick Kahale Cockett
1harles Paehaole Davis, Archibald Al Ha
pai. charles Mark Hardee, Henry Khan
hapea Charles Frederick Kauhane. Sol
omon bismarck Kaahaaina, Frank Kuni
nea, David kalani Limanui. Wiiliau
halunahooluhi Macomber, William Ar
cneson keauruni Markham, Edwin Ma
nnohaia, David Neal. Henry Ontai. Jane,
0hinthtu, Joseph Poo, Samuel Kalei Pupuhi
TThtcnaru Peter Reuter-, Louis Keoul
thompson, John West Vannatta. vii
liam Cole Vannatta " -