The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-12-20
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vices rendered last night in the beau
. tiful chapel in the Kamehameha schoc
. grounds. attended by large numbe
of the members of the Kamehameh
: Alumni and Alumnae and their rela
tives and friends, the building beini
overcrowded with those eager to d.
honor to the memory of the one t
whom the Hawaiian youths owe $,
much, Bernice Pauahi Bishop. The in
terror of the chapel was beautiful!
decorated, wreathes OF banyan, palm
and pepper twined with lima leis being
used artistically throughout the audi
torium, the platform being banked with
palms and potted plants.
Rev. W. B. Oleson, to whom the az
lection of the older members Of the
graduate bodies goes out aud whose
temperance among them has been the
cause of such great pleasure, delivered
the address of the evening, his
straightforward advice and encourage
ment coming in simple and plain Eng
lish making deep impression upon
all who heard him. On the platform
with him were Principals Perley l..
Horne, Miss Pope and Miss Knapp.
Harry Aud, president of the Alumni,
Mrs. Bowers, president of the Alumnae,
E. Faxon Bishop, W. Q. Smith, Rev.
Tob,
Theodore Richards and Rev. Moses
Nakuina
The program o1the services was az
follows;
Organ Prelude-Offertoire in minor
Opus . ......-.............. Deplantay
Miss Margaret E. Clarke.
Chorus-Pauahi Ike Ali. .Yarndley
The Kamehameha Schools.
Rev. John L. Hopwood..
Responsibility. Holy, Holy. Schubert
Choir Boys.
Scripture Reading ....-...............
Mr.. Uldrick Thompson.
Anthem-The Recessional ..... .Kfpling
Kamehameha School for Girls.
AuOIeSS
Rev. William B. Oleson.
Anthem Sanctus .Gounod
From ST. Cecelia's Mass.)
Choir.
Prayer ...........---.......
Mr.. Theodore Richards.
Response .................. Liliuokalani
Choir Girls.
Hawaii Ponoi. Berger
Congregation.
Benediction
Rev. Moses Nakuina.
Organ Postlude. Horatio W. Parker
Miss Margaret E. Clarke.
WORDS OF SOUND ADVICE.
The address of Mr.. Oleson contained
much Of sound, practical advice and
warning and was delivered in such a
way as TO impress upon the hearts of
those among the attentive listeners
who best knew the speaker a realiza-
ton of the earnestness with which. he
spoke. A portion of the address was:
The making of livelihood. and the
making of a life-these are the great
objects of education. Any training
that does not promote each of these
is partial and Incomplete: and the
training which most successfully ac-
complishes both of these ends is the
ideal and worthy one.
For while necessity couipels the
making of a livelihood, the highest
considerations constrain to the maxi
ing of a life.
He who would eat must work. The
man who would keep a-roof over his
head must be a producer. He must
pay the price of honest effort for all
he gets. The hive may have mission
for its drones, but society has no
place for the loafer. The man who
does not earn his own living goes
surely to the wall. No man can live
under his own vine and fig tree. who
does not plant his fig tree and keep
his vine pruned.
This is work-a-day world in which
We live. and every man who would
live in it. and not become stranded
like some human Manchuria on the
shoals of a real distress, must have
a personal share in some of the work
and live. But to have such a share in
the worlds work. opportunity must be
given to prepare for it. And this is
one of the great objects of education,
viz: to fit men to make a living. And
so the hand and the eye and the ear
are trained. So, too, the brain is given |
careful discipline whereby it gains |
grasp. and accuracy. and creative |
power. So. too. the training is varied l
so as to hit the aptitude of the 'indi- !,
vidual. and to call out in himself |
powers that he could not have discev-
cred unaided.
Here. then, is a great service that /
such schools as Kamehameha render. |
For they help out youth to find them
selves-to discover their aptitudes, and |
heir opportunities, and their resources
'or the necessary task of earning a /
living. They must do that: they ought
70 be helped to do it to the best adj
Tantage.
Now, kamehameha prominently
stands for just that sort of an educa-
ion For twenty years our youth have
here had a training that has justified
Itself in the results. Work has been
reated as an honorable and necessary
hing. Self-mastery in workshop and
classroom has been the constant goal
widening opportunities have
,een afforded here for the develop
nent of individual aptitude. and that
Llways in the direction of ability to