Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-06-26
Kamehameha Graduates
Hold Annual Reunion

There were over 200 people present at
the reunion of the Kamehameha Alum
nj Association in the big dining room
of the school last evening. Besides the
members of the association there were
present Principal and Mrs. Dyke, Prof.
and Mrs. U. Thompson, Prof. Theo
Richards, Miss Ida Pope. principal OF
the Girls school and members of the
| faculties of the two schools. L. Nc.
Giants Stewart, the principal speaker
| of the evening was also among those
present.
Prayer was offered by Rev. David Al
and then came the song of the class OF
81 by Charles L. King. The various
classes responded in their turn. Prof.
\ Thompson made long address on the
question of the government ownership
Of railroads, giving arguments favoring
the scheme.
r. McCants Stewart delivered very
able address which was. in part, as fol.
lows:
Gentlemen of the Kamehameha
Alumni Association:
You are now engaged in the worlds
broad field of battle, and because you
are graduates of this institution Of
learning. you are leaders In the fight.
Men, and women too, look to you for
direction and guidance. Upon you rests,
in a special sense, responsibility for tho
result of the struggle in the present
generation. and the influence of your
lives will extend to generations yet un-
born.
Though they forget the singer,
They will not forget the song
A Glorious Land.
You are born in q glorious land
whose mountain peaks and sun-kissed
valleys, whose cloudless skies and
azure shores are the wonder of man.
kind. While circumstances have
abolished the institutions of your an
cestors, and have set up new ones IN
their place, yet you have not been de
prived of all relationship to the new
institutions. On the. contrary you are
closely identified with them, and thu
extent of your control over them vii
depend largely upon the elements o.
character you develop.
Battle Of Life.
The battle OF life Is no longer Tough
out along lines of physical proves
Great as was the Roman Empire, 4
was unable to lift men above the Law
of force. and while 1t absorbed much C
the excellence of the civilizations 1
supplanted, yet the Roman eagle wal
the symbol of force and the cry Il an
n Roman citizen" made other nations
tremble, because they knew that L
Rome might made right. While SOM
OF this same spirit has come down L
and remains with us, yet men every
J where recognize the fact that befor
= they can call into play the force o
might. they must appear, at least. 4
have on their side the law Of right
Unless this were true, the United State
would have had the world against 1t Il
Cuba, and Great Britain would hay
been similarly confronted in South Al
RIGA.
To Front In Battle.
The men who keep to the front 1
the battle of life, and who are in
at the finish, are the men OF iron man
hood. They are the men who, in tn
first place, are OF upright character.
knowledge Is Power.
Bacon, the greatest of modern phi
osophers. gave expression to might
truth. when he wrote knowledge
power" and he wrote this truth at
time when men had not completed
emancipated themselves from the star
dard OF physical proves, which the
had inherited from the Romans.
Those That Lag.
The men that lag behind in the RAJ
OF life, or who fall in life's battle, al