The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-21

glasses VIII 90 IN the future.
The time has now come when we
members of the senior class must
separate. Probably as class we shall
never meet again. With the return of
the fall months some viii be in college
others scattered to their homes, and a
visit to our school in 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, a Renaissance of
youths pleasures, a realization of our
earliest desires. And that-Our Grad
uation.
''Ladybird," by Cowen, was beauti-
fully rendered by the chorus, being
musical treat of high order.
MR.. 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 were entering-some to
pursue the goal of knowledge higher
and others to enter the battle of life
directly-was but one of successive
starting points in every well-ordered
life. "Self-knowledge and the power
to mould your own characters l con-
slider the most valuable of your assets,
ne told the graduates. In concluding
an effort crowded with beautiful pic
lures OF topical allusiOn, Mr.. Akin
son said:
"In 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-knowledge,
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
dren again at the fOotstool of their
Cod
Loud and prolonged applause greet
tionaI service as he sat down.
The chorus sang the class song,
composed by Miss Schaefer, and read
ing thus:
CLASS SONG.
Low let the curtain fall upon the past,
The past now yelled with tears:
Those days are dead-yOu may not
better them;
Turn, as the present clears.
Lift high the curtain! gaze on the be-
yondl
The black mists slowly rise,
And drawer hopes and nobler thoughts
light up
The futures clouded skies.
THE PRINCIPALS FUNCTION.
Prof. Scott then presented the diplo-
mas to the thirteen graduates, pre-
facing the ceremony with an address.
Beginning with a reference to their
situation, he said this was the farth-
est west of any high school in the
United States-there was no public
high school among the seals and AL
cuts of Alaska. Their surroundings
were beautiful If they could make in
ternals as good as externals, what
beautiful characters they could devel-
op. A man and his wife from San Di-
ego visited them the other day, who
said the climate and beauties of that
CITY fell away below comparison with
the climate OF hOHOlulu anu luS DS1u-
tiful surroundings of the High School.
The first person he ever met from
the Hawaiian Islands was lady, who
possessed an indefinable charm and he
wondered as to its source. She told
him she had been born and educated
in the Sandwich Islands and never
away from them until that particular
trip After words of counsel to the
class. Mr. Scott in conclusion said they
had always considered each successive
graduating class as the incest yet and
hardly to be surpassed, but when the
time came round again they always
found a class prepared which main
tanned the fine standard and whose de-
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