The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-19
PUNAHOu
GRADUATES
The Glass of 1904 Got
Diplomas Last
Night.

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assembly room of Oahu College was
full of people last night to attend the
commencement exercises of the class
of 1904 The majority of the audience
were women whose white summer cos
tunes gave the hall a festival appear
ance. During the exercises the electric
lights went out and for perhaps twen-
ty minutes the place was pitch dark;
but a young graduate. Miss Amy Pink
ham Hill, who was delivering the vale
dictory, kept on to the finish, receiv-
ing tremendous applause, and the rest
Of the time was pleasantly whiled
away in hearing an organ voluntary
| by Professor Gerard Barton.
The evenings program began with
mastery organ Pilgrim
Chorus''-by Br. Barton, which was
followed by the invocation of Rev w.
D. Westervelt. The honors of the sal-
utatory, third honors went to George
! Clarence Pearson, son of Rev Geo. L.
! Pearson, who spoke in a thoughtful
way on 1.-THE Influence of Democracy
in America" The salutatory with sec
ond honors, Song Birds of Hawaii"
was delivered by Percy Gynlais Hiwa
Deverill. It was an essay showing
careful study and an accurate knowl-
edge of an interesting subject. The
next number on the program, violin
solo by Miss Florence Hall was omit
ted, the young woman having hurt her
finger.
The commencement address by
Walter G. Smith was the occasion, in
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Grifhths. of some pleasant compliments
to the Advertiser as "the organ of civic
righteousness" Mr.. Smiths address
which was entitled Getting On in the
World will be published by request
of Prof. Alexander, Bishop Restarick
and others, in tomorrow's paper. its
length precluding its insertion here.
The piano solo, minuet in B minor
by Esther Dagnar Sorenson. was a
pleasant change in the program and
was received with a salvo Of hand
cIappings.
The va1edictory. first honors. 1.-THE
Heroines of Scott" was so excellent
that it is given in full below. The vale
dictorian was Amy Pinkham Hill and
it was during her appearance on the
platform that the lights went out and,
put her self-possession to the test.
THE VALEDICTORY.
Imperfection is the fashion Of this
world if not it's law. The fashion is
more prevalent in the higher order of
created things than in the lower for,
the more complicated the structure, !
the more difficult is its mechanism, and
the more readily are its parts derang-
ed Consequently, there are more fail !
IL. -, ,ASr If E1.o.
type in humanity. than in the lower !
animal world, or in the vegetable !
kingdom. Indeed it is never reached. /
A perfect bird or flower is not rare, /
but whoever saw a perfect man or
woman? Yet belief in human perfec-
ton is in every right mind. and an
aspiration to. reach it in every right
heart.
Through all English literature there
runs an idea of feminine excellence,
and, whether it be Chaucer's Emily,
Spencer's Una. Shakespeare's Portia,
wordsworth's portrait Of the one who
had
"a eountenance in which did meet
Sweet records, promises as sweet"
whether it be Ethel Newcomb. or Ro-
mola, or any other heroine of fiction,
we find. according to his intellectual
ability and spiritual insight, the au-
thor's conception of Woman.
1t is to Scotts ideal I wish to call
your attentfon,-an ideal that unites
and harmonizes the strong and the
graceful; the firm and the soft: the
courageous and the modest; the wise
and the innocent; the true and the
kind: the digniffed and the gracious.
Of Ia TQrif fzh
a red thread runs through the entire
length to identify it against wrong ap-
Over all seas, into all
ports. however widely remote. this lit
tie and almost unnoticeable sign of
goes with its quiet ex-
preston of the far-reaching power and
dominion of English sovereignty So,
IN the women of the Wayerley Novels,
whatever their station. whatever their
land. or period. or tongue, is the un-
mfstakabIe strand-the touch and the
stamp of the Wizard of the North.
There is Ellen Douglas, a mountain
maiden whose very heart seems to
-hrob in sympathy with nature She
9 wild and tinnid as the deer, but her
step is light that
Zen the slight hareben raised its
Elastic from her airy tread" II
Her voice
Those silver sounds. so soft. so
dear
The listener held his breath to
hear" !
Her outer vigor and beauty seem but {
he visible expression OF her inner I
strength and grace.
Her kindness and her worth to {
spy.
You need but gaze on Ellen's eye;
Not Katrine in her mirror blue I
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