Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-04

the key OF the new selfeducation.
have no patience with those who de-
plore the new and extol the old. We
are a million times better than We
were q hundred years ago. Enlight.
ment! Think OF America, South
America. Europe and their freedom
today. Japan in only hfty years, China
bursting into bud. India, Egypt and
Africa redeemed from bondage, Mex
leo whom we are redeeming. Is not
the earth lighter, brighter, cleanerf
For those who go down unto the sea,
for farmers, miners. laborers, mer.
chants, doctors. explorers. manufac-
turers? For all OF those who are
creative. productive, in motion. pro-
crossing. ~
If you would be happy, see that you
are in this class. The unhappy per.
sons are standing still. locked in
prison of the past. dissatisfied they
know not why, misanthropic because
shaekled, sinful because ignorant, ig.
norant because miseducated.
Think of century ago In our own
land, and nowlight In dark places
and at night, lighter spirits. lighter
burdens, lighter and cleaner ships
coaches, laws. cities, homes, schools.
factories, souls and hearts. As the
world OF men has evolved, so have
youf spirits In those same fossil
shell-hsh, we may dissect out the
protoeouch, or baby she'll and trace
the chambers added TO great spiral
ammonite. and find that the life his.
tory Of the individual has rehearsed
the forms OF its ancestors the earl
lest a nat open clam-like animal. So
did your souls rehearse your ances-
tors perhaps, medieval deyout saint
and scholar at I'VE, patriot and In
dian fighter at ten, nineteenth Gen.
fury inventor and eyolutionist at fif.a
teen. now democrat, eugenicist and
peace-advocate at twenty. What will
You build In the three score years
that lie before your
You have opportunity such as no
group Of men and women ever had
before, in time newest fiedged from
the shell OF alma mater, place the
fairest land on earth. members Of the
greatest nation the world has ever
seenan Englishman recently wrote
Of President Wilson's inauguration to
what he described as .sunquestiOna
the highest office to which any hui
man being has ever been elevated, =
the presidency of the United States,
Of America in 1913.
For dipt into the future, far ass
human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world. and all
the wonder that would be;
-
It'll the war-drum throbb'd no longer
and the battle.hags were furl'd
"In the Parliament of man, the Fed
Grafton of the world"
~ - So ss.sf =. -
In conclusion then, my friends OF
the class of 1914, your education Isl
just starting Avoid q fan by too
much freedom. Preserve the best Of
your inheritance. Use wisely your
freedom to change.
Your acquired habits and sound
Judgment will keep you studying man
kind and good books Read authors, q
men and women, not magazines.
Think and learn OF the writer when
you take up book. Do not listen to-
HcdFbd3, llSLeH W YOUR euuCdtSu JuuS-
ment. Avoid fetishes of fancied au-l
thority; education is full of them and
this word college has been one Of
the most misleading. Study distinc-
ton, true distinction, in men or books
or art, wherever you may find It, and /
remember that the most distinguished
man who ever lived was lowly. man.
Avoid word fetishes. 'History" Is
dry, biography, the same thing, is rich
and fun. Gymnasium" Is tiresome,
sport and Gods out-ofdoors are life
itself. Government and economics"
suggest dusty shelves, but the right.
eous conflict for human order and pro-
gress is a world Of interest "Litera.
ture" sounds dapper and foppish. but
what Is it but the all-engrossing rec.'
ord of mems and women,s souls2
Theology and religion are mere1
soulwearying words. but loyalty, hui
n1anity, truth-seeking, service, and tot
lay down your life for your friends
greater love and happiness hath mol
man than this. Forgetting those
things which are behind, see to II that
you press toward the mark for the
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