The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-04
KAMEHAMEHA
COMMENCEMENT
Sweet Girl Graduates Receive
Their Diplomas in the
Bishop Chapel.

Inc eleNentH commencement cAST-
cises of the Kamehameha School for
Girls were held last night before
friends, relatives and welI-wishers of
the graduating pupils to a number far
beyond the seating capacity of the
beautiful Bishop Memorial chapel.
which was artistically decorated with
ferns, palm leaves and red lilies for
the occasion. The exercises were decid-
eddy interesting, the various papers
and addresses made by the members
of the class being bright. clever and
practical efforts, showing the results Of
the practical education received.
The graduation class of 1907 consisted
| of Florence Kaehuokanani Abbey, Au-
| gusta Muller, Irene Kamakolu sylvia,
Alice Kalaaumoe Mahikoa, Maria Kea-
| Iohaokalani Ellis, Helen LanmOy Apo.
| Nora Kauha' iloulu Kahaleole, Rose
| Kauiokohala Hussey and Kalahikiola
| Piliwale. who have concluded their
academic course, and Maria Kalolowe-
hiani Kamai and Lily Malua'e Kai,
| graduates of the domestic arts depart
| IllCAAl' " I'LL tlAClAl Oll lAAS
the members of the teaching staff. Rev.
Stephen Desha, Senator w. o. Smith
and E Faxon Bishop, the last two be-
| ing trustees of the schools.
| Following two musical numbers and
| the invocation, given by Mr.. Desha,
| the welcome of the class to those pres
ent at the commencement exercises
was delivered by Miss Florence Abbey.
The Yesterday and Today of Ha-
waiian Girlhood'' was the theme of Miss
Maria Ellis paper, which contrasted
the lot of a Hawaiian girl of one hun
dred years ago, suffering from the tabu
| on her sex, her education being linn
| tied to the simple arts of tapa making
| and mat weaving and the girl of to-
| day, with the privileges of her sex and
the choice of occupations open for her.
| The picture made by the young read
er on the platform, prettily dressed and
speaking in cultured, educated phrases,
contrasted with the picture she drew
of the girlhood of her great grand
mother, emphasized more than words
would the advances that have been
made in Hawaii.
| Miss Alice MahikOa read a paper de-
voted to the necessity of a training
| school for nurses in Hawaii, school
where Hawaiian girls could receive
| LESSONS in the art of nursing the sick
and the proper bringing up of children,
a matter the ignorance, of which is re-
sulting today in the gradual extermi-
nation of the Hawaiian race.
A plea for the preservation of the
Hawaiian language among Hawaiians
was made by Miss Kalahiki Piiiwale
suitably in Hawaiian.
| Hawaiian commerce, old and new, a
review of the trade of the islands from
the sandalwood days down to the pres
ent, was given by Miss Nora Kahale-
ole, who spoke of the advances in trade
and in people since the days of Kane
hameha the Great, and the farewell ad-
dress was delivered by Miss Rose Hus-
I sey, who made fitting references to the
teachers and the good they were do
| ing.
Miss Pope, principal of the girls
school, presented the young ladies with
| their certificates, the visible results OF
| five years of study and work they had
done. She addressed the class at length
giving words of advice and sympathy
urging them to carry into the life they
were just entering the class motto
| Purity is Wisdom"
| A piano solo, Mendelssohn's RondC
| Capriccioso, was rendered sympathet-
| ically by Miss Augusta Muller, her
playing showing the limit of excellence
reached in the musical classes of the
| school
! Following the exercises the graduates
were loaded with leis and other floral
| offerings from friends, while the plat
form was crowded with those anxious
| to personally congratulate and compli-
ment the young ladies.