The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-25

Of SUCCESS
Dole's Address to
Graduates OF Oahu
College.


| and a singularly clear enunciation o.
the right ideals, which should affair
greatest prominence in the young PEG
| pie for whom and to whom the address
was made. The judge, former Puma
hon graduate, and who, in fact, was
born at Oahu College when his father
Rev. Daniel Dole, was president of the
institution, spoke as follows:
From my recollections of my own
jority of girls and boys look forward
with eager interest to their coming
years. Some of them become impa-
tient with their studies,-in which they
may deserve our sympathy,-and await
the end of their school days as a re-
lease from thraldom. Many, perhaps
all, face life with joyous optimism.
Ten or twenty years later the ranks of
the optimists are decimated. Why?
Mostly because the point of view of
many of them is wrong.
A few years ago a party of young
people started for the summit of Kona-
huanui, but they never reached it, be-
cause they failed TO take the right
trail. They wanted to reach the top
but their most heroic and persevering
efforts were unsuccessful. There was
but one path and they were not follow
ing it.
We all have our ideals of success
an indefinable something that is worthy
of our best endeavors and much self
sacrifice something that we consider
worth while. What this is, what is
worth while, varies somewhat with diff
ferent persons. With some, success is
favorable recognition of one s neigh
bors or fellow countrymen, or of man
kind as whole. There are those who,
installing conspicuousness for distinc-
ton are anxious for an opportunity to
appear before the public in almost any
capacity, so that its demands on their
safety and comfort are not too severe
they are eager to lead the van in times
of peace, but are, however, modestly
willing to march in the rear when war
is imminent. Erostratus, the Greek,
impelled by such craving, set on fire
the beautiful temple of Diana al Ephe
sus, mistaking the notoriety thus to be
won for fame.
cit seems difficult for our civiliza-
ton to foster the type of man who has
but finds the highest use of
this possession in the restraint there
of, holding it in check for an emer
(Prof. Jastrow in Science,
$50; 1860 i
1t is good thing for youth to be
have that quality which
we admire in spirited horse. But is
there not an essential element to all
ambitions without which success can
not be obtaineda
One is ambitious to be rich, another
to exercise political power, others to
become famous as writers, as orators,
as inventors, as captains of industry
or masters of finance. Here is one who
looks forward to establishing a beauti- I
full home. A girl dreams of leadership !
in society and to entertaining in royal I
fashion
:
they educate; they promote enterprise; !
they develop the slumbering faculties !
But why is it that many who succeed I
in their desires, who realize their 4.
hopes, feel, even then, that success IS
unattained? Why was it that Solomon !
with all his accomplishments, his rec
Dgnized position as man of letters, of
scientific research and as philosopher,
the renowned magnificence of his court,
his worldwide fame. cried, out of
sore heart, "All is vanity'2 What Is
success if these things are not? Is it
not an indisputable fact that men can
not be really satisfied with the accom- /,
1lishment of desires that do not go be-
-ond the term worldliness? There is
in human nature, more or
ess latent, that does not fail to be
thrilled by a brave deed or heroic
Jet of self-sacrifee. Men flock to the
zlondike for gold, they march to battle
or glory and adventure and the world
ooks on, interested, but unmoved;
,ut ..when a deed is done for freedom,
through the broad Earth's aching
,reast runs a thrill of JOY prophetic,
rembling on from east TO west. y We
!pplaud the victors in the contests OF
Garth. whether in a horse race, an ath-
etic competition or the race for wealth
r position, when the best horse wins,
nd then quickly cool down and forget
Speak, history! who are life vie
torso TTnrol thy long annals