Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-04
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ADDRESSES ;
GRADUATES
Continued from page five,

the key. of the new self-education.
have no patience with those who de-
plore the new and extol the old. We
are million times better than We
were a hundred years ago. Enlight-
mentl Think of America. South
America, Europe and their freedom
today, Japan in only fifty years. China
bursting into bud. India, Egypt and
Africa redeemed from bondage. Mex
leo whom we are redeeming. Is not
the earth lighter, brighter. cleaner?
For those who 60 down unto the sea,
for farmers, miners. lahorers, nler.
chants, doctors, explorers, mannfac-
tnrers? For all OF those. who ara
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 a
prison of the past, dissatisfied they
know not why, misanthropic because
shackled. sinful because ignorant, ig.s
norant because miseducated.
Think of century ago in our own
land, and now--light 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
your spirits. In those same fossil
shell-fish,, we may disseet out the
protocouch, or baby shell, 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 fat open clam-like animal. So
did your souls rehearse your ances-
tors perhaps. medieval devout saint
and scholar at five, patriot and In.
dian fighter at ten. nineteenth CEN
fury inventor and evolutionist at flf-
teen. now democrat, eugenicist and
peaceadvocat at twenty. What Will
you build In the three score years
that lie before you?
Yon have opportunity such as no
group Of men and women ever had
before. in time newest hedged from
the shell Of alma mater, place the
fairest land on earth, members Of the
greatest nation the world has ever.
seen--an Englishman recently wrote
of President Wilson's inauguration to
what he described as "unquestionably
the highest ONCE to which any hui
man being has ever been elevated
the presidency of the United States
Of America In 1919. 81
For r dipt Into the future, far as
human eye could see.
Saw the Vision OF the world, and all
the 5 wonder that would be;
It'll the war-drum throbb,d no longer.
and the battle-fiags were furi'd
SIN the Parliament OF man, the Fed.
Grafton Of the world. . ss
In conclusion then, my friends of
the class of 1874 your education ISL
just starting. Avoid a fall by too
much freedom: Preserve the best Of
your Inheritance. Use wisely your
freedom To change.
Your acquired habits and sound 1
Judgment will keep you studying man
kind and good books. Read authors,
men and women, not magazines.
Think and learn of the writer when.
YOU take up book. Do not listen to |
hearsay, listen to your educated judg.
ment. Avoid fetishes of fancied au-
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 !
that the most distinguished
man. who. ever lived was lowlys man.
Avoid. word fetishes. History" Is |
dry, biography, the same thing, Is rich
and full Gymnasium is tiresome,
sport and Gods outof-doors are life
Itself. Government and economies"
suggest dusty shelves, but the right. |
eous conflict for human order and pro-
gress is a world of interest. "Litera. |
lure sounds dapper and foppish, hut |
what Is It but the aIl-engrossing rec.
ord of mems and women's souls? |
Theology and religion" are mere
words, but loyalty, hui
manity, truth-seeking, service, and to |
lay down your life for your friends
greater love and happiness hath no |
man than this. Forgetting those |
.hings which are behind. see. to Il that |
you press toward the. mark for the
)riZe of YOUR high calling.