The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-21

You must not live for yourselves
but for others. Make everybody glat
when you come and everybody sorr!
when you go. Launch out into thu
deep You must not stop only on tbs
shores, launch out
I'D like to say right here, that il
any of you ever go TO the mainland
! Idon't fail 10 come and see u.s.
The girls glee club sang ''Spring
Morning" The enunciatior. was excel
lent and the tonality perfect
The address of the day was deliv-
cred by Mr.. G. w. Smith, who said in
part:
To speak of the value of education,
in terms of praise, at a time like this
seems almost superfuous, yet, at each
recurring commencement day we cam
not but be reminded of the great bene-
lifts resulting to mankind therefrom, of
the quiet unobstrusive work that is be-
ing done. all over the land, for the
looming generations. We hear much Of
the self-educated man, of the man who,
despite the lack of advantages in his
youth, the inability to acquire, from
force of circumstances, an education,
and yet who has risen to high emin-
| =
replete with instances of men who,
without early education, have risen to
places of political power and trust.
In these later days it is of men who
have risen high in commercial life.
/ All honor is due them for having over
come the difficulties that surrounded
! them but there is not one of these who
has not felt the need and lack of the
early education, not one who has not
recognized that education, through the
training of the mind, would have saved
them from errors of judgment, mis-
takes of policy and crudities of man.
! ner This is evidenced by the munifi-
Gent donations, made by many of
these, to institutions of learning, in
other words, their tribute to education
| as a force in the world for the up
building of the mind and development
| of character. In nothing can State bet
| ter further it's interests than in liber-
ally providing for the education of its
citizens of the future. Other things
may seem important, selfish interests
may demand attention, the trappery of
power may absorb revenues, but, in
evitab1y, the States that does not pro-
vide literally for the education of its
subjects sows the seed of degeneracy
and through illiteracy, blazes a path
way that leads to final extinction.
| Here. in this island land, from the
seed planted by teachers sent of God,
| has grown the tree that we see ripen-
ing into fruition. Here we see minds
from an ancestry of the highest nations,
| minds from an ancestry bound by the
traditions of a decaying civilization,
minds of the blended races, all bios
soming, like a transplanted flower into
that fullness of beauty that can only
come in the free air Of a free State.
| Members of the graduating class
you have chosen q noble calling, one
that is not appreciated. as it should
be, by the world at large.
| Yours it is to exert those influences
that inevitably result in the uplifting
of others, in the spread of the leaven
of righteousness through those that
come under your care, that shall raise
the mass and make its work felt on
generations to come.
You have in your power the render
ing of service to the State that is
incalculable in it's consequences and
value.
| AS the artist takes the lump of plas-
tic clay and. with deft finger, molds
and shapes it into a thing of beauty,
so is it now given to you to take that
most beautiful and plastic of all things,
Gods last and best gift to mankind,
the human mind, and, what is still
more beautiful, the mind Of the child,
to mold and shape that mind for its
| future life's work, to inStill that
knowledge that shall broaden, elevate
and inspire to a better and a freer
life.
| From the first flicker of memory the
child, with wide-open eyes, looks out
upon the world, eager, grasping for
| knowledge, and it becomes your duty
to draw out the latent faculties which
are there from unknown ancestry be-
| hind, to fill in from the stores of
knowledge you have here gathered, and
will still more gather through life, to
lead them gently up '.Learnings rug
ged Stairway to fit them to be noble
men and women; true, honest, upright
citizens virtuous wives and mothers;
| to fashion from the shapeless mass that
which truly constitutes a State. 1t is
no slight task. 1t has required of you
months of preparation. You will meet
with discoura cement. it will seem at
| times as if your efforts counted for lit
tie but, remember, you have always
before you the example of the greatest
Teacher the world has ever known.
Patience, kindness, love, all COM
bined with determination to do nobly
your part, can not but result in bring
| ing us nearer to that time which
prophecy tells lies in the future be-
fore us.
RESUME OF WORK.
Before giving out the diplomas, Prin-
| cipal Wood gave a resume of the work
which the Normal pupils were expected
| to do. Those receiving diplomas were
Marjorie Freeth, Marion HASTE, May
| Patty, Rica Soares. Jessie Shaw. Juli
cite Cook, Gladys Richard, Ella Goo
Kim and Rose Peck. Those receiving
| certificates We're Edna Akau, Manuel
! Anjn, James Avail. Manuel Dias. Kaha-
nuani Haia, Edith Hall, Hulda John
| son, Margaret Johnson Emily Kaohi,
| Nora KeaWe, John Medeiros. Emma
| Peplowski, John Brown, Emma Lewis,
KealuIOa Nalimu. Helen Kawiaea and
| kalei Waiau.