The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-29
AT ST. LOUIS
COLLEGE
Fine Program Of
Commencement
Exercises.
DISTRIBUTION
OF PREMIUMS
Drama Given by the Students :
Salutatory and Valedictory
Address Well Received.

morning in the college hall at 10 o'clock
The hail was well filed with the reIa-
tives and friends of the young men
who appeared upon the stage to say
farewell to their fellow students and
the faculty. The exercises were of a
character to inspire the coming grad
yates of the institution with a desire
to accomplish as good results next
year.
| The ST. Louis College orchestra
played several selections during the ex-
ercises, evoking applause for the ex-
cellence of the music rendered
The drama, which was performed by
lseveral of the students with histrionic
talent, was well presented, showing the
lcareful training which Brother Thomas.
has imbued in the young actors. The
play was well staged, and as an anna
tteur production was possessed Of merit
(which pleased the large audience
| In the hoop drill" the Minims dis
lplayed class discipline to a marked de-
lgree. The violin solo of Walter Klein.
Take Back the Heart was very ac-
Ieeptable. as was also that of Hermann
Lamke, who rendered Harris Scotch
Fancy" The piano solo of VIM. Achi
land the monologue of VIM. Hughes and
1.-THE dialogue of A. Otremba and F.
lStack. were appreciated by the aud
fence. as evidenced by their generous
applause.
e. Mccain delivered the salutatory.
He said in part:
The time-honored custom of leave-tak-
ing has long since become formal act
| and has even been marked by some I'M
usual effort on the part of the teachers
and pupils to render the occasion an en-
joyable one TO both parents and friends;
and it is with such an aim that we have
assembled here on this our eighteenth
annual commencement
During our sojourn in college we have
been nrged-aye. even forced-to do our
duty by the constant stimulate of our
beloved teachers: but now their duties
cease, and we depart to join the hosts of
fe1low-travellers through life, without
the help and guidance Of those kind and
loving hearts
Forth into life we are to sally, and
like true soldiers, we are to carry our
own knapsacks.
True to- an honest purpose,
Through Iife's short struggle We'll go
And II In the end we're heroes,
lis st. Louis has made us So
Having thus chosen cur course without
guile and with pure purpose. let's renew
, tour trust in God and go forward with
? out fear and with manly hearts.
The surest stimulus to success Is sta
bihty of purpose-to know what you are
going to do, and do It
: We have waited long and patiently, blu,
| the time is near at hand when our fond.
, est hopes will be realized or trodden In
the dust. and our friends of today VIII
teither continue to applaud IS IN oul
success. or to pity the failures we make
We shall be replaced by others, and
! viii appear to be forgotten in the appre
citation of those to follow. but our teach
ers will still maintain an active interes
IN us, and will follow with anxiety III,
!, course of our future career.
Our departure viii cause no disturb
ance in the school life of orr beloved
4 college, for as we came SO shall we go
. as a cloud, waited over I'll, clear Sep
] TENDER sky. Is gone, to return no more
But our college, our teachers and on
classmates are photographed in gu
/, hearts and their hkenessas will remain
forever, for the never -ceasing stream o
time which is continually washing ava,
I the feeble Impressions of tickle friend
ships, passes without injury by the ada
mant OF heart
AS we are replaced by others today
so they, In their turn, will be suppressed
ed In endless succession. and win e
forth into the world bold and fearless
gladiators In the category of noble men
who
Through rain and wind and frost an,
snow.
VIII sing and shout as they so.
The valedictory was presented b,
John Spaldfng as follows:
Leaving the threshold of our dear col
lege, with fond farewell on our lips
~, - a
ward those who so lovingly guided US OF
the rugged paths of science, 1t would b
well to consider that the word farewell
does not simply imply dissolution o
school ties, but that 1t points forwar,
TO an opening to new life, the com
mencement of a new course that ha
been carefully mapped out
We have viewed the world from behin
a curtain, as 1t were, and we have no
had occasion to observe the many diff
culties to be contended with.
The assistance we have had heretofor
ceases, and we shall have to Deepen,
largely on experience and perhaps some
what on those whom we consider friends
but who will likely show little interest Il
our regard: for the world is with u
when we succeed but knows us not whel
we fail
Were the ven hiding the future fron
our view TefHOSGQy PiteGTc nOdi
unfold itself to our view? Would It re
veal the Joys of prosperous and viz
tuous or the niseries of an unhappy an
corrupted iife7 Time alone win solv
this Let US then hope that none OF a
be of the number OF unhappy victim
who go down In the maelstrom OF wo
and despair!
May the pleasures we enjoy today new
er be clouded by the sorrows of mis-
spent life, and may the Almighty guild
US on the paths we are about to enter
Nav He also bless the devoted friend
and parents for their painstaking car
in our behalf.
In these sentiments we bid you all
fond farewell.
The distribution of the premiums fc
1.-THE years work followed the exercise
closing with the rendition of the Lii
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