The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-06-23
LARGEST HIGH SCHOOL
CLASS EVER GRADUATED
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for itself If we work and get all we
can out of the present.
And to those who have helped us
solve our problems of the past, to those
who have worked with us, to the ones
who are to come next year, we are
about to bid n farewell. The last few
moments are drawing to a close in
which we may call ourselves seniors
Tomorrow we are graduates. 1t is but
natural that we have made mistakes.
But we trust that these will be over
looked by our friends, who perhaps in
memories flight have been taken back
this evening to their own school days.
If so, / doubt not but what many of
you would like for old associations
sake, to step upon the graduation plat
form once again.
Heretofore 1t would not have been in
accordance with the dignity of a senior
to admit to Junior that we ever made
mistakes. but in saying farewell to-
night, we earnestly beg of you to profit
by these mistakes, and If in a year at
your graduation. you find yourselves as
worthy in deeds performed as our class
has found itself, you will have guarded
well the reputation of the school en-
trusted to your care, and will have left
a high standard for future classes, such
as has been left to us by classes that
have gone before.
To those teachers who have had our
best interests at heart and who know
our faults perhaps better than our
selves, we say goodby. If by your
opinion we have left undone some of
the work which we should have done,
trust that your good teachings remain
ing with us, will yet enable us to find
and to rectify our errors.
1T is with the sncerest regret that we
part from Prof Scott. You have been
to US what the controlling lever is to
a huge machine. In rebellious moments
you have lessened our speed to what
has been most conducive to our own
safety. At the times when we have
Jagged behind you have increased our
speed and carried us beyond the dan
ger point. In all our daily work you
have taken a leading part, so much so
that perhaps not until we miss that
help will we fully realize what we are
about to lose Many of the graduates
of years gone by now stand high in
the life of this community, and if we
in the future can in some way honor
the name of the school from which we
graduated, 1t will be but small return
for the years of patient effort that you
have devoted to our welfare. Words
from your pupils can. not adequately
describe our feelings, but in saying
farewell we can only renew the express
sions of esteem and Aloha which many
classes have expressed in the past, and
which we hope and feel sure many
classes will do in the future.
The time has now come when we
members of the senior class must
separate. Probably as a class we shall
never meet again. With the return of
the fall months some will be in college
others scattered to their homes, and
visit to our school in n few years will
not seem the same as now, for there
will be strangers in the old familiar
places. We have had some good times
together, and they say the pleasures of
youth are sweetest. Some of us may
have better, some worse. but whatever
they are, or wherever we are, the pleas
ures and the sorrows of graduation can
come but once Whatever the wages of
life amount to, there is one time to
which we may look back as being free
from the worlds discord: a vision of
happy regrets, u "Reminiscences of
youths pleasures, n realization of our
earliest desires. And that-Our Grad
uation.
"Ladybird," by Cowen, was beauti-
fully rendered by the chorus, being a
musical treat of high order.
MIR. ATKINSON'S ADDRESS.
Superintendent Atkinson then de-
livered an eloquent address to the peo-
pie and the graduates. One of his first
points was that the assimilation of
races in civilization would be brought
about more by education than by any
other factor. BY way of illustration
he indicated the great diversity of race,
mother speech and home religion to
be found in the schools of Honolulu
and the group. He cautioned the pu-
pills that the degree of education they
had attained was nothing more than
the beginning. The momentous period
on which they We're entering-some to
pursue the goal of knowledge higher
and others to enter the battle of life
but one of successive
starting points in every well-ordered
life. "Self-knowledge and the power
to mould your own characters | con-
slider the most valuable of your assets,
he told the graduates. In concluding
an effort crowded with beautiful pic
lures of topical allusion, Mr.. Atkin-
son said.
I'm youth or in age in sickness or
in health in wealth or in poverty, let
us all show our High School training,
You will show it-not the High school
training Of the mind, excellent as that
is, but the grand and universal High
School training of self. self-lnowledge,
self-discipline, which will take us to
that final High School, where kings,
presidents, emperors, beggars and mil
lionaires, the poor clerk and the
naughty noble, the humble and the
world-famed, shall meet as little chill
drea again at the footstool of their