Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-20
JUDGE whitney MAKES STIRRING !
i ADDRESS TO 6 GRADUATING CLASS
Jurist Gives Boys Good Advice
for Starting and Living After
School Room Days

FOLLOWING - puS ShHI"A 0SS'SeS
delivered by Judge William 1. Whit:
ney to the graduating class Of the
Honolulu School for Boys:
Members of the Graduating Glass:
The life OF every man is divided into
periods. Men do not sail through lite
on an even tide. There come. now and
again. times when II seems as though
things had come to full stop. Such
is this day with you. II Is well az
such times to pause inr a moment to
review the past, to look forward lit
tie into the future, to take account
of the stock in trade, TO estimate the
chances OF success. to lay our course
for the future as best we may This
day for you marks your first step into
the field of men, your last step in the
field of a boy. From henceforth lien
will expect of Won that you meet them
as men, that you acquit yourselves as
men, that YOU lay aside childish
things, that you assume some OF the
burdens which you will find await You
outside Of the school room, that you
enjoy some Of the many privileges
which you will find were denied You
In those same school rooms, At such
time. / would that might say some
thing that would give you little idea
OF where the safe course lay in the
voyage ahead Of you. that ] might
point out some star that was safe to
point the boat, the boat that from now
on, as never before, you yourself
must steer.
Life, as ii must be lived with your
felIowmen Is not a complex Thing.
When men begin to tell YOU that there.
are many, many rules to follow, that
there are many, many things you must
know ere you are ready to really live,
Just remember that multitudes Of men
with far less advantages than y9u
have had have made mighty god
run, have put up mighty good Tight
Remember this, be glad that you are
young. sail in. hit the best lick, and
never fear.
II is. as look at It. mostly question
Of being able to fit. of being tit and
being able to fit. So. the few words
II have to say this afternoon / have
gathered under the head OF four Tits.
Four fits, and short ones.
Fit the First-Irl order to hit the
best Hex, man must be educationally
|fft. Now, the years that lie behind
you have been given over almost en-.
tirely to education. But education, as
am using that term. is not matter
cf book learning. In fact, II is SO little
4 matter Of book learning that | am
going to leave that out of the count.
The things we learn from books have
a way OF slipping out Of our. heads.
The five years Of Latin took at
school and college have left with not
enough knowledge OF the language TO
read the advertisements Of Boston
Carriers. The algebra. trigonometry,
comic sections, astronomy, the higher
English, Greek and German OF my
youth are sadly forgotten. But let not
that discourage you Education is not
what we learn but what we find out.
have already preached q sermon to !
ycn on this before But ] can never
see a body of young men such as this
but I want again to rise and shout
sSee things, see things. = The number
Of men who sail through life seeing |
nothing, hearing nothing. and conse. ,
quently doing nothing. Is simply ap.
pailing. No matter what you are at,
whether at college, In the shop, on |
the farm, anywhere, everywhere, for
goodness sake look. see. hear, butt IN |