The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-06-23

| We hope that this evening will give
you pleasure in recalling thoughts of
your school days. and in knowing that
our class salutes you with grateful feel
ings and honor, for all that you have
done for us, by precept and example
Mr.. Ellis Lando sang "Asleep in the
Deep" by Pietrie in an excellent bari
tone voice improving as he proceeded,
and was rewarded with loud ap-
plause.
Miss Ethelinda Schaefer recited the
class poem, her own composition, in a
charming manner. 1t is as follows:
THE CLASS POEM.
The school-bells rang and slowly died
mist hung DER the dark blue sea-
Old Father Time watched on the golden
sands
The sands of Waikiki.
The distant harbor's masts rose tall
and gray
Against the silent western sky,
But sleep lay heavy on the homes of
men
While thirteen said good-by.
The great white moon rose up above
the palms
And crowned the breaking waves
with snow.
She cast her blessing on the stormy sea.
For God had willed it so.
Then thirteen sails sped from the silent
shore,
Like silver sea-gulls on the sky.
And some their bows turned East and
some turned West,
Till never one was nigh.
hoods Sleep.
Forever they had passed it's gate.
And now. embarked upon Lies ruth
less sea,
Each sought the path of fate.
An angel passed, meteor, DER the sky. |
The weary moon sunk down to rest |
The morning raised the heavy Veil of |
sleep,
And God the whole world blessed
Mr.. Ernest Nathaniel Smith was the
class valedictoran. He delivered the |
address printed below with admirable |
forensic effect. Without being loud !
his voice easily carried to the far re-
cesses of the hall, while his emphasis |
was well placed. His delivery was at |
times interrupted by applause and his |
joined the audience in Civ |
Ing him an ovation at the close. Fol
lowing is the
VALEDICTORY.
The rush and turmoil of the present
lge extend even to the public schools
and a graduation nowadays Is often a
hurried farewell to associations known
only during four short years. Students
gather from different grammar schools
n a large city, know each other only
Turing the High School course, then
and go their respective ways,
perhaps never to meet again. But in
his case it Is different. The class which
graduates this year has been together
much longer than the High School
Ilone. Indeed some of the members
ave advanced together from the first
ear that they ever saw the inside of
school room, and a majority entered
rom the same grammar grade. Teach
RS have come and gone but the class
las remained practically the same, and
ather than rewell, we have come
ogether this evening to celebrate the
L hope uccessful-ending of our first
ong period of work, but not the ending
# our mutual concern and interest.
FOR some of us it means the ending
f our school life, for others the step
ing block to college and a larger
world, but situated as these Islands
re, many of us will no doubt follow
ommon paths in the future.
Heretofore we have been guided and
ERECTED in all we did. Hereafter we
ave an opportunity to stand partly II
ot wholly alone. Whether We stand !
+ whether We fall remains with us. ,
'iguratively speaking we have been !
iven a start along the paths of knowl- !
dge. After the momentum has died I
way shall we come to n dead stop or s
hall we gather renewed energy and {
lcrease our speed? That also remains '
nth us. Let us hope we shall not be I
Ike the small boy in the swing who I
allied to his brother, "John, come and c
tart me. swing me hard and swing me
Ugh" Rather follow the advice which l
ohm being busy called back, Put your
le on the ground and start yourself, I
hen work up" But If we work up we !
hould remember the words of one of t
ur financiers who said. IF you are j
ding to soar, try and keep one toe on q
ne ground, you feel so much safer" I
There Is much difference of opinion n
$ to whether we should go to college Y
: not. We are told that a source of Il
over is knowledge. We may not all ;
0 to college but we may gain knowl- e
ige everywhere, and II it Is the kind 6
nat can be used, If it is qualitative $
lther than qualitative have we not
'alized something and gained in v
over? /;
Indulgent audiences oftentimes hear II
Ugh school graduates define success, Z
nd settle questions which they them c
lives have not solved, 1t is natural G
IT us on viewing the world from
platform to look brightly on o
iings and forthwith form high ideals b