Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-06-24
ANNUAL GRADUATING ExER'
ClSES HELD BEFORE A
LARGE AUDIENCE

Honors at Punahou FOR the year
l0t1.12 we're announced last Saturday
night at the annual college commence
ment exercises, marking the end OF an
unusually successful school year and
the beginning, for many young grad
yates, of n new era in life.
Robert Alexander Anderson, gradu-
ate of the college preparatory course,
received the award of the roll OF hon.
or as the student who had Influenced
the school most for good during the
past year. To Joseph II. harrington
went first prize In the Damon rhctori.
cal contest, to Miss Hazel Gear second
prize and to Miss Helen II. Colburn
third prize.
Charles X. Bishop Hall, where the
commencement exercises were held.
was filed with large and enthusias.
| tic audience of relatives, friends and
alumni of Punahou and applause was
! loud as President Grifiiths, who pre-
sided, made public the awards. The
, popularity of the choices made was
quickly evident.
! Anderson has made good all.
around record in college. He has
been good athlete and hard stu
dent and Is regarded as n high type
of young manhood.
/ Damon Prize awards.
The announcement Of the Damon
prizes is one of the events OF the
school year. Joseph II. Harrington,
who won first prize, had as his SUD
| iect in the oratorical competition
some days ago, THE Spirit Of &c.
Miss Hazel Gears subject was. THE
Imps Matinee" and Miss .Colburn's
! theme was Sweet Leilehua."
i The commencement oratiOns were
very interesting and unusually able.
1 Miss Hazel auckland spoke on Eliza
bethan Theaters," her subject being
l treated historically. Robert AleXan'
der Anderson spoke on the Panama
i Canal" his speech proving instructive
and being well delivered. Miss Mar
ion Elizabeth Brown, the third speak
err, told of the life Of Frances Willard,
the great woman reformer and tenn
perance worker.
The annual address, delivered by
,kDr. John r. Cowan of Kohala, was an
| able and inspiring treatment of "Vo'
|, cational. Cultural Education" In which
=. he made a plea for the combination oil
| the practical and the ideal to form a
wcll.roundcd life.
i The annual class gift was presented
/ by Randolph Hitchcock, president ol
! the class, the gift taking the form oi
four koa chairs for the use of the choir
| in the morning chapel exercises. The
) response to the gift was made by
. President GrifIlths.
, The presentation of diplomas and
/ the announcement of scholarship
I awards was followed by music and the
/ Eencdiction, closing the program. Pres
ident Grifliths in presenting the diplo
mas said that twelve members Of the
class are intending to continue thcil
education in other colleges and empha
sized the essentially basic work of the
. college and its broadly-preparatorJ
spirit Scholarship honors were
!. awarded to Robert Alexander Ander
/ son and Milton Lyle Holmes, both o
|. whom averaged better than 30 pei
cent during their courses.
= During the program music was fur
A nishcd bv Miss Martha McChesneN
with a piano solo, trio of girls, ant
n male quartet. The Rev. Leopold
+ Knoll pronounced the invocation ant
Y the benedlctiOn.
n The Graduates.
: The list of graduates is as follows
2 College Preparatory Course - VIM
|. Patterson Alexander, Robert AleXan
D der Anderson, Marion Caude Chaplin
|. Francis Clark Cowan, Edwin Hutche
son Glib, Randolph Howard Hitch
cock, Milton Lyle Holmes, Heller
Jones, Harold Kerr, John Troup NOR
Jr., William Lionel Morgan and Da
Tung Pang.
General COurse-Edth Louis Bald
win, Frances Hazel auckland, France
q Hallet Cochran, Helen Rosa Colburn
!. Alice Belle Davis, Margaret Stewar