The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-10-05
LAID The CORNER STONE
CEREMONY YEsTER-
DAY AT PUNAHOU.
Large Gathering Hears Speakers Talk
To the numbers of several hundred
Educational Values

To the number of several hundred
people, three generations, from X anu
parent to granucnlId, atIenued the lay-
ing Ot lue CORNERSTONE or the new Iu-
nanou scnool DunuIn~ yesterday after
noon on the conege campus at Oanu
Couege.
An elaborate program had been pre-
pared and was carried through most
successfully. "reminiscences of the
Gays wnen the scholastic advantages
now presented by the beautiful couege
buildings were collected III nucleus IN
the sitting room OF a small ADOBE
house, one of the pioneer homes of
Christianity and civinzation in the ISL
anus, were uttered by the son of the
man VINO first gave that dwelling and
the broad lanus surrounding, to the
cause of education in hawaii. The
speaker too was the one who was aptly
chosen to deposit the copper box of rec
lords and mementos beneath the new
corne stones and make the first strokes
of the trowel on the new building.
1t was a feJe champetre and the
weather was kind with smiling skies
and tempering breezes. Above the
northern corner of the foundations of
the new preparatory department build
ing, and over the corner cavity in
which was sealed up the box of rec
lords, platform for the speakers and
invited guests had been erected, while
fronting it stood wide rows of chairs
for friends and pupils.
The exercises commenced about 4
O'Clock by the forming of a procession,
headed by the band, of the trustees,
speakers, teachers and the architects
of the new structure, followed by the
students of the schools bearing their
class banners. Among the procession
were l.. A. Thlrston, F. w. Damon,
Judge Perry, w. r. Castle, 2. c. Jones,
]. b. Anterior. DR., N, b, Emerson,
Rev. w. M. Kincaid, Hiram Bingham,
Jonathan Shaw, A. B, Wood, DR.. Sc
reno Bishop.
The band played during the march
and Immediately afterwards, when the
formal program commenced with a
responsive reading of the Scriptures by
the Rev. F.. w. Damon followed by a
prayer from DIR. Bishop.
President A. M. Smith briefly opened
the way for the other speakers, stat
| ing that the men who built a school
house were preparin" for the formation
of public character and introduced w.
r. Castle, who gave an historical re-
view of Oahu College, from the re-
port of the committee of education to
the trustees of the college in 1881 to the
present day. The hymn How Firm a
Foundation" was then sun" in chorus.
The Rev. w. NJ. Kincaid then made
the address of the day speaking of the
aim and the end of all true education,
Ito make wise men and women out of
the boys and girls that are growing
up in our midst" The fact that
knowledge and wisdom are often in
compatible was touched on and illus
trated. Solomon was filled with wis
dom, the wisdom of words but he did
not act according to his knowledge.
Burr, Byron, Shelley, Poe had know
ledge but no wisdom, while Washing
ton, Lincoln, Mckinley had little
knowledge, speaking after the wisdom
of the schools but they had great wis
dom. But whether his knowledge lies
in the line of invention, creation, ac-
Icumulation or inspiration, the wise
man does not do what he thinks is
best in itself, but what, being good, he
can do best.
! while wealth is good" continued the
speaker land is necessary for the es-
Establishment of many things it is not
everything Quality of thought is the
grand thing. Devotion is no longer be
leved to go with ignorance as in the
middle ages"
The corner stone was then laid. and
Principal French of the school spoke
at some length on the inspiration CON
tanned in the day for the teachers and
asked for loyalty to the school from
the pupils. The Rev. Hiram Bingham
spoke in recollection of old days and
walled in the box of records while the
pupils gave the college yell.
A. b. Wood for the Board of Educa-
ton spoke of the necessity of pupils
combining with teachers, without
which the proper spirit of the school
would anguish. The singing of Am
erica" then closed the exercises.