The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-07
SCHOOL DAYS
ARE ENDED
Eight Girls From IA.
mehameha Have
Graduated.

The Eighth commencement of the
Kamehameha School for Girls found
just eight sweet girl graduates on the
platform of the Bishop Memorial Chapel
at Kamehameha last evening to receive
diplomas from Miss Ida Pope. principal
of the school The graduation exer-
cises We're of pleasing nature and
were we'll attended
Those who received diplomas We're:
Edith Leilani Dunn, Annie Claire
Davidson, Hattie Hiilani Jones, Victoria
Kekaihaakuloulan Mahikoa, Iwakilau-
kapu Augusta Scholtz, Hannah Keaka-
lani Sheldon, Hakamaikalani Wong
kong and Henrietta Weloulani Scholtz.
The choir box and the platform of the
nets, filled with green leaves and yellow
flowers, and the platform itself contain
ed many potted plants and ferns. Ac-
cording to custom the people present
brought many strings of leis for the
graduates and these were massed along
the front of the platform. On the plat
form We're seated trustees. teachers and
graduates of the school. All of the girls
looked very pretty in costumes of white.
Their hair was combed pompadour and
surmounted by white ribbons.
Following an Organ Prelude" the
exercises We're opened by the singing
of ITO Thee, o Country" by the girl
chorus of the school. Rev. ]. L. Hop
wood then gave the Invocation and
as a response to this the girls of the
school sang He Aloha no ka HAIKU"
by Liliuokalani, the girls having their
heads bowed as they sang. Miss Edith
Dunn then gave an interesting reading
of paper concerning the landmarks
OF Hawaii, making an appeal that the
objects and places SO intimately asso-
ciated with Hawaifs interesting past
should be carefully preserved. Miss
Annie Davidson gave a clever descrip-
ton and history of the Hawaiian Coat
of-Arms, explaining each Of the small
symbols shown upon it. The Girls
School Glee Club sang 80 Welcome
Lovely Spring following which Miss
Eva Scholtz told of Hawaiian supersti-
tons and pointed out object lessons as
to how young Hawaiians should draw
away from the old superstitions and
follow more idealistic paths in the flu
ture.
The singing of He Inoa no Kameha-
structive address by the Rev. J. L. Hop
wood on Life Shaping Influences
An address by the Rev. G. L. Pearson
on 'tHawaifs Future brought out an
interesting speech concerning the rap
idly increasing scope of the opoprtuni-
ties of the young Hawaiian of today.
He wished to prophesy little. He de-
clared that all could not be true
prophets yet some could. If we wished
to grow alligator pears we would not
plant mango seeds but instead would
plant the pear sed itself from which
we would be reasonably certain to get
a pear tree. In life also we should
plant good deeds if We wished to get
good rewards in return.
The Girls School Double Quartette
sang "On Musics Wing and then, with
a little bit of pleasing and happy adj
vice to each graduate Miss Pope, the
principal handed around the diplomas.
The chorus then rendered an Hawai-
ian Hymn" composed by E. A. P. New
comb and dedicated to Kamehameha
Schools.
The Rev. G. L. Pearson pronounced
a short benediction and mid the strains
of the chapel's big organ the audience
wended it's way from the chapel and
down the gravel drives to the street.
a pleasing feature of the evening was
the singing by the chorus of school
girls, the blending Of so many Hawai-
ian voices furnishing sweet music.