1 UCSB LIBRARV X- THE SEVENTY- FIFTH ANNIVERSARY- PAGEANT BY ETHEL M. DAMON ILLUSTRATED - BY . MAY FRASER AND JESSIE C. SHAW JUNE 21, 1916 To ARTHUR FLOYD GRIFFITHS and THE TRUSTEES OF THE OAHU COLLEGE representatives of that LONG LINE OF PRESIDENTS AND TRUSTEES WHO NEVER LOSING HOLD ON THE IDEAL not only have built THE PUNAHOU OF TODAY but also are surely fashioning THE PUNAHOU OF TOAORROW this anniversary book A SHADOWING-FORTH OF THE PUNAHOU IDEAL is dedicated. The design on the cover is the work of Ar. James A. Wilder. The gourd water-bottle " huewai " of the ancient Hawaiians, full of life-giving fluid from the new spring " Punahou," and the torch " kukui," giving life and light to all, represent the end and aim of Punahou. The seven and five kukui nuts fastened to the outside of the torch may easily be read 75 for this anniversary. AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL PUNAHOU BOYS AND GIKLS, BIG AND LITTLE, FKOMATHKUTOZ Dear Children: Early in the year 1915 the Trustees of the Oahu College sat solemnly around a big table and deliberated. In their deliber- ations they decided that Punahou, on arriving at the mature age of seventy-five years, should have a big party, and that one day of this party should be devoted to the cutting and eating of a huge birthday cake with five and seventy twinkling candles. It was to be a new kind of cake, called Pageant Birthday Cake. And it was to be made of a queer dusty flour called history, but sugar and spice and all that's nice were to go into it too, with a good deal of foreshortening to make it light. For a long time Miss Winne and Miss Damon went about the towft gathering up this history-flour, and finding to their amazement that it wasn't really dry at all. Mrs. Cox and Miss Castle helped too, getting spice and salt and plums and things. Miss Shaw, Miss Fraser, and Mr. James A. Wilder sharpened their pencils, washed their paint brushes, and made lots of pictures to put all around the edges of the cake. Every- one was as generous as could be. Some gave flour and some helped with sugar, and no one kept back his hand, because all the helpers were Punahou boys and girls. Then one day Miss Winne gave Miss Damon a big wooden spoon and said, "Now you must stir this cake." And immedi- ately began such a stirring and baking as you never saw ! For it was so huge that it had to be baked in three pans, and some- times corners would get scorched and have to be done over again. But at last it is quite done, and a neat white frosting is being put all over it at the printing office. Then on a Wed- nesday afternoon in June it will all be spread out for you to cut. The Making-and-Baking Committee wants to thank you all and a great many other friends for willing hands and smiling faces, and to say that if you or your children ever care to look up the recipe for this big birthday cake, you will find it all carefully laid down in this book by Your faithful WOODEN SPOON. Honolulu, Hawaii, May, 1916. THE SEVENTY- FIFTH 'ANNIVERSARY- PAGEANTS PUNAHOU. %JUNE 1*116 HE STAGE is a large one on the Alexander Athletic Field at its Kocky Hill end. A rocky sloping wall, about three feet wide, curving as the terrace does, finishes the stage at the back. Against the back ter- race a few ^-leaves and ferns. In gen- eral, the stage is bare, rocky, sandy, with a few shells. At mauka front a hala tree. Makai half way back are bushes and trees, one of them a big kamani, com- pletely hiding a scenery reproduction of the original E- shaped building. Back center of stage is hollowed into a pool so that the water from the spring can flow down the rocky bank a little way and into the pool. The performance opens with an Academic Procession heralded by the Koyal Hawaiian Band playing the Coro- nation March by Meyerbeer.. The procession forms in- visibly back of the President's house on Kocky Hill and winds slowly down the curving road above stage, turns sharply to the right and passes thru wings across stage toward mauka and disappears along the mauka track be- hind the audience. The procession consists of president, trustees, faculty, graduates, and distinguished guests, all of these in either plain cap and gown or, where appropri- ate, with doctors' and masters' hoods and other bright colored insignia. After procession has passed, a prelude by Grieg suggests the symbolic character of the prolog. The Prolog Spirit enters from mauka on platform at back, carrying a flame with both hands, her costume of smoke violet, yellow, orange and green with her slow, waving motion giving ef- fect of smoke and flame; crosses stage on back platform and appears again from makai back ; pauses about center toward front, and gives first prolog. PART I. PROLOG. HE SPIKIT of Help fulness, I who stand here I Tending a flame that feeds the hearts of men. Tho some there are who latinize my name And Education call me, a "leading-out" Of body, soul and mind ; still others too The Helping Hand, "Lima Kokua," 1 And fruitful too, "Ka Lima MaMai." But name and fame I seek not ever. Mine to tend the tiny flame that kindles, Fires, awakes, inspires the thots of men. No terror know they then, nor heat nor cold, But go to every clime on earth's wide sphere With open helping hand and heart. A tale I have to tell you here today Of fair Hawaii, that loved land of ours Where "Summer dwells eternal." From off the distant past we now shall lift The veil of silence long untouched, and look Upon strange men and scenes in that far day Of legend, tale, and myth, while yet no ship From colder shores had sailed the "tranquil sea" With sailors fair of face, but oft, alas, Unfair of deed ; when all Hawaii-nei Still peopled was by gods and god-like men. From far Manoa westward stretched a plain To Honolulu's bay, a plain so dry And parched, so hot that gods themselves did cross It seldom. Once, however, two were known, Kane and Kanaloa, to try, in thirst And heat, its passage. How they fared and how Transformed the desert bare, you now shall see ; How to the lifeless earth and tropic sun They added that third element which lacked Before, the water, that life-giving stream Of Kane, springing at his touch. The earth Is here, the sun-drawn fire within my flame ; Naught fails but water now, the fountain source Whence flow our life and wealth, perpetual sign Of helpfulness and strength, Kapunahou. (Ketreats makai, looking mauka, and disappears al- most immediately behind trees and shrubbery makai back. ) EPISODE I. LEGEND OF THE SPRING. Dramatized from the Tenion given by Joseph 8. Emerson. Hawaiian translation by Rev. Henry Hodges Parker. WO GODS, Kane and Kanaloa, enter slow- ly from mauka end of stage, on a journey. Kanaloa, fair-complexioned, a sort of white devil, carrying a wooden awa bowl. Kane, true copper-colored Polynesian, carrying a long staff. Kanaloa. Auhea na punawai ola au e Kane? Lohe nui au i ke oli o keia poe i na kahawai ola. Aka, mai keia awakea a hiki ia nei ua hele a makewai au ; ua wela kuu alelo iloko o kuu waha. 1. Kanaloa (petulantly). Where are thy springs of living water, O Kane? Often do I hear these people of the valleys chant of thy life- giving streams, but since noon I wander thirsty, my tongue hot in my mouth. 2. Kane. E ahonui iki oe, a e hoomaha ae kaua ma ka malu o keia puhala. 2. Kane. Have patience a little longer. Indeed we might rest a moment under this hala tree - 3. Kanaloa. E mea iki hou ae nei oe i ke ahonui, a ua hele a maloo okoa au, pau pu me kuu waha. Kei! ka wahahee o ka lakou nei oli ! 3. Kanaloa (interrupting). A little more of thy patience and I were dried up, mouth and all ! What lies these people chant ! 4. Kane. Aole wahahee, e Kanaloa, he oiaio no. E nana aku oe iuka i ke awawa, kahi i paapu i ka noe i kakahiaka nei, noe hanai i na kahawai o'u, kahi hoi a Hine e kauoha nei 10 i na Kaa-ao halihali ua e holo, a aneane hiki i kahi a kaua e ku nei. 4. Kane. No lies, Kanaloa, but truth. Look yonder (approaches center back and looks mauJca, gesturing) up the valley, where this morning the mists lay thick, feeding my streams, and where so often Hine sends her cloud-chariot of rain scurrying down almost to where we stand. 5. Kanaloa. E, aneane i kahi a kaua e ku nei, pono ia olelo au, pehea e kahawai ai nau ke hahai ole ia oe, a ke loaa ole aku hoi ia wai? Maanei au e auwana wale ai me Kane, ke Akua o na waikahe, aohe nae loaa ka wai e hoka ai kuu awa. 5. Kanaloa. Yes, almost to where we stand is well said, for how are they thy streams, if they follow thee not, if thou canst not reach them when thou wilt? Here I must wander long with Kane, god of flowing streams, and have not water to mix my awa. 6. Kane. Aohe holo wale na wai a pau maluna o ka ili honua e ike ia aku ai e na maka ou, e Kanaloa. Ina oe e hoolohe, aole hoi huhu elike me ka mea hehena, ina ua lohe oe i ka owe ana o na wai nui malalo pono iho o kaua e like me a'u e lohe nei. 6. Kane. All streams flow not above the ground in thy sight, Kanaloa. If thou wouldst but harken a moment, instead of raging like a madman, thou couldst hear, as I do (lean- ing on his staff and listening intently), the sound of many waters far below us. 7. Kanaloa. E haawi mai kau wahi wai, a kou wai, o hehea auanei au, aohe o ka lohe ka'u e ake nei, aka o ka ike maka, a hoao a inu hoi maanei me kuu awa. Homai i wai a i ole, aohe oe he akua. 7. Kanaloa (savagely). Give me of thy water, or I go mad 'tis not to hear it 11 that I crave, but to feel it, taste it, drink it here with my awa. Give it me, or thou art no god ! 8. Kane. Pela i V. He wai io no ; ano, ua ana anei oe, e ka mea makewai. 8. Kane (roused). So be it! He wai no! (striking ground with spear back center of rocky bank a little above level of stage. A bub- bling spring gushes out, higher at first, then lower, but still bubbling and flowing over rocky bank into the hollow pool.) Now art thou satisfied, thirsty one? 9. Kanaloa. Ahe' ! Ae' o oe io no ke akua o na wai-kahe ; oi hoi ha, e naue pu aku kaua mao aku o ka aina palahalaha, aole nae e hookaawale loa i keia kahawai me na wai leo kani owe ona ; e pili mai no keia me kaua i na wa a pau. 9. Kanaloa (gleefully leaping toward the spring and catching enough in his little wooden awa bowl to mix with his finger, then taking a long satisfied draft). Ah ha! thou art in truth the god of flowing streams! Come, let us be off across the plain, but not far from this bubbling stream. Let that be near us ever. (Both off stage, makai front, Kanaloa keeping near stream and dipping in his bowl once or twice before dis- appearing.) 12 EPISODE I. INTERLUDE A. A-MELE PROPHETIC OF KAMEH AMEHA'S COMING . Hawaiian translation arranged by Rev. Henry Hodges Parker and Judge Sanford B. Dole. N AGED Hawaiian woman in tapa garment ap- proaches stream from rear of stage mauka, folds a ti- leaf taken from the plants at back and dips up a drink of water. Then she seats herself in front of pool and begins to chant, swaying slightly : Ua haule na Alii, ua auhu- lihia na aupuni, He hulihia a puni ka aina : Manomano na lehulehu o ka hulihia ana. Emoole, ikea ke aka o ka mea kaili aina, Oia ke keiki a Kupuapa, Kalanikupuapakalani, Ka opio e hana ana i ka hano o ke Alii, e hakoko ana no na moku; Wiwo ole ke komo ana i ke kahua mokomoko, ke komo ae la me na hauna lima-hema, Kaohi oia i na moku me ka lima ikaika, Oia ke Alii, Aneheaulaweaina Ka lima akau o ke kahili o ka aina, Ua nalo na mahele o Hawaii i ke Alii Uuku io Hawaii, paa i ka poho lima ; Kapalulu i ka lima akau. Ua lilo ka la i ke Alii-ka makua o kona lahui, Ano, hookahi makua o na moku, E oia ke Alii a kau i ka puaneane. Aia ka hale o ka make me lakou, o ka hale o ke oia, eia ia nei la nei kona lanakila, mao ko lakou make Ua olohe ka piko o na mauna, Maloo i na makani wela o ka Lani ku a mae. Pela ke Alii e hauoli ia Hawaii a Kanikoo. He mano holohonua ko kakou Alii, He mano hiki ke ai ka aina a pau, O ke Alii ka mahamaha ula, Aohe puua i na moku. No ke Alii ka aina holookoa, No ke Alii ke kai a me ka aina ; Nona ka po ; nona ke ao ; Nona na kau, ka hoilo, ka makalii, Ka mahina, na hoku ehiku o ka Lani, ua kau. Ua maa ke Alii i ke kaua, he eleu, O Leimanoano ka anapu ana o ka malamalama, oia ke ala ula o ka wanaao, O Haili, ka Manu nui, hali kanaka oia, 14 Ka mami lewa i ke ea o luna, kani le'a i ka lele ana ; ke Kiwaa Kau i ka lewa lani ka lo, Owe ana ka nalu o ka aina ; na auna Koae He nalu pua, ka ua ukiu ma ka opuu o na moku. Na hulu hookele, ka puapua loa o ka mami lele wanaao ; Ke Ao kani leo le'a, oia ke Alii, kapalulu na aheu ma na kuahi Kapalulu na eheu ma na kuahiwi, ala kamaaina o Kaili, Puoho i ka hopo ole o ke Alii Kaena ke Alii ma Kukuipahu. Kahea ia, hamau anoano ; Kahea ka leo, auhea lakou ; Auhee kanaka o Hilo iuka, lele auna maluna o Makaholo Ua naha ke poo o ka aina oluna, Naha liilii ia Akakalani, kupanaha lakou wiwo wale Okalakala ka hulu o ka mea hopo wale ; hopo wale a pee me he moa la ; Weliweli i ka leo o ke koa-ke Alii, E nakolo ana maluna leo hekili, He moa kane ke Alii, e kau ana i ka haka Kamahao ka loli ana o Hawaii ! PASSAGES FKOM HAITI KA LANI An ancient mele referring to Kamehameha, translated from the original Hawaiian by Judge Samuel Andrews. Fallen are the chiefs, overthrown the kingdoms, An overthrow thruout the land ! Countless are the numbers from the universal rout. Many divisions were in the land. On every island there was strife, Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, all! Soon, behold the shadow of one seizing land, Even the child of Kapuapa, Kalanikupuapakalani, The youth doing the work of the chief, wrestling for the islands ; Boldly stepping into the ring, he enters with left-handed blows. 15 He curbs the island with a strong hand, Even the chief, Aneheaulaweaina, The right hand of the sweeper of the land. The divisions of Hawaii are lost in the Chief. Small indeed is Hawaii, grasped in the hollow of the hand ; Fluttering in the right hand. The day hath passed over to the Chief, the father and his people, Only one father is over the islands now. Let the Chief live f orevermore. The house of death with them, the house of safety here ; Here triumph for him, there destruction for them. The mountain tops are bare, Blasted by the hot whirlwinds of Heaven they stand with- ering up. As Kualii borne in a net to command the battle, So old was he, so loose his skin, but still sharp his eye, So let the Chief enjoy Hawaii to wrinkled old age, Our great Kamehameha. A shark going on land is our Chief, A shark able to devour all our land. The Chief is the red gills, The throat not choking at the island. To the Chief belongs the whole land, To the Chief belongs the ocean and the land ; The night is his ; the day is his ; For him are the seasons, the winter, the summer, The month, the seven stars of Heaven now risen. The Chief is practised in arms, rapid in movement. The breaking light of morn; the sudden flash of light is Leimanoano. Haili, the great bird, bearing off the living men ; The bird floating high in air, singing in its flight; the Kiwaa flying with a song, The hovering lo, poised in air. The sounding reef of the land ; the Koae in flocks, A breaker of flowers, the windy shower on the bud of the island. 16 The steering tail-feathers, the long tail of the bird of early flight; The Ao singing loudly is the Chief ; he flaps his wings upon the mountains ; He flaps his wings upon the mountains, waking up the upland dwellers of Haili. They are suddenly aroused at the boldness of the Chief ; The Chief exults at Kukuipahu ; He calls aloud and silence reigns ; The voice sounded forth, they all fled away ; The men of Hilo fled inland, they rushed above Makaholo. The head of the upland is broken. Broken to pieces by Akakalani. Surprising was their cowardice ; The hairs of the coward tremble ; fearful he crawls away, and crouches like a chicken ; Terrified at the voice of the soldier, the Chief, Sounding on high as the voice of the thunder. The Chief is a cock, perched on the sleeping-place. Wonderful is the transfer of Hawaii ! (A comprehensive gesture takes in whole island, from Manoa to the sea, mauka to makai of stage, whither she gazes as if spellbound, then shading her eyes with one hand, points with the other and calls. ) 10. Ua ike au i ko kakou Alii nui, eia ae ke hele mai nei, a mahope aku ona na hoohuli ana ano hou, a oe wale aku. 10. "He comes! I see him now, our great chief. And, after him, a far greater change?" (Withdraws backward past pool toward mauka back of stage, still gazing makai. She disappears entirely and there is an instant's pause before the distant sound of many feet is heard makai, with the clash of wooden arms.) 17 EPISODE n. THE FIRST HISTORIC DISPOSAL- OF-THE LAND. 1715 AMEHAMEHA and warlike retinue ap- proach slowly from makai front, Kaahu- manu and other women among them. The greatest of the warriors is Kameeia- moku, and with him is his twin brother, Kamanawa. As Kamehameha approach- es the center, he speaks with a lordly ges- ture. 11. Kamehameha. E ike oukou, ua lilo Oahu ia kakou ; a o Kaiana hoi, ka mea a kakou i aloha ai, a i ko kakou popilikia ana, holo malu aku la ia ma ka aoao o ka enemi ; o ua Kaiana nei ka i loaa aku i ka popo ahi, iaia i huli ku-e mai ai me ka ihe ma ka ima. Ano hoi, ua ike kakou i ka hoaaloha io, i hoao ia a he kupaa o Kameeiamoku, o oe ia, no ka mea ua liuliu oe me makou. 11. Kamehameha. See, Oahu is ours. Gone are our enemies, thrust over the brink of the pali. Even Kaiana, whom we had be- friended and who in our need ran skulking to the foe, even Kaiana a swift fire-ball overtook as he faced us, spear in hand. And now we know our true friends, tried and staunch. Kameeiamoku, (laying hand on his shoul- der) thou art such, for long hast thou fought with us. 12. Kameeiamoku. Eia no au, a nau keia puuwai, e ke Alii. 12. Kameeiamoku. Such I am, this heart is thine, O king. 13. Kamehameha. Aka, e na hoa, ke nana nei au i na kokua ana a oukou. Eia Oahu nani ke moe nei ma na wawae o kakou. Na kakou ia e hapai a e hooikaika ma na aoao a pau, i malu- hia na mea a pau. 18 13. Kamehameha. And still, my comrade, I look for your help. Fair Oahu lies prostrate at our feet; our task is now to raise and strengthen her and so order all her ways that all may live in peace. 14. Kameeiamoku. O keia ihe, ua makaukau i na wa a pau, elike me ia mamua, no ka hooko ana i kau hana. 14. Kameeiamoku (striding forward eagerly in warlike attitude.) This spear stands ready as ever, for thy ser- vice. 15. Kamehameha. E ka hoa maikai, aohe o kou ihe oioi, aka o oe a me ka poe me oe ka'u ake nei e ike i keia ; ua pau ke kaua i keia wa maanei, oia ka manaolana. Aka o ka mahiai o ka hookahekahe wai, a me ka hooponopono akahele i na lehulehu o ka aina, oia ka hana, i hele na elemakule a me na kamalii a moe maluhia ma kapa alanui. No ia mea i lawe mai au ia oe i keia la a ia nei, i keia wahi nani. A ua lohe anei oe i ka inoa o keia wahi? 15. Kamehameha. 'Tis not thy swift spear, but thee and thine I need, good comrade. No fighting is here now, we hope, but rather planting, watering, careful judging of the common people, that "old men and children may be safe when lying asleep on the paths." To that end I have brot thee here today to this fair spot. Knowest thou by what name it is called? 16. Kameeiamoku. O Kapunahou, e ke Alii, O Kapunahou ka inoa. 16. Kameeiamoku. Kapunahou, O chief. 17. Kamehameha. O Kapunahou io keia, he wai hou, nona keia wahi ulu- wehiwehi ma kapa o ka aina panoa, he wai e hooulu ana i ke kalo. O keia aina a pau, nau ia, e kuu hoa, a me na keiki mahope aku ou; he uku keia no kou hookauwa ana mamuli o'u, a he hoailona no na mea e hiki mai ana ma- hope. 19 17. Kamehameha. Kapunahou, indeed, the new spring, making a green spot here at the end of a barren plain, giving water for taro planting, too. All this land shall be thine, my com- rade, and thy son's after thee, as reward for faithful ser- vice past and earnest of that yet to come. 18. Kameeiamoku. He rnakana nui loa keia au, e kuu Alii. 18. Kameeiamoku (kneeling). Thy gift is very great, my chief. 19. Kamehameha. He nui no, a e oi aku ana no nae, no ka mea e kokua oe ia'u ma keia aina o Kapunahou, o oe a o Hoapili mahope aku ou, na olua e hoomalu ka aina, a e hooponopono me ka pololei. Na kou poe kanaka e mahi ka aina a e hana i wahi hoomaha oluolu ma keia wahi maikai. No ka mea, elike me ka holo ana o ka wai mai keia punawai aku, a e hoomau ana i ka aina a pau, pela kou aupuni e hooikaika ai i na mea a pau, a hoolilo ia keia makana a'u ia oe i mea nani loa. A e lilo auanei keia wai, iloko o keia wahi poopoo, i mea hooma-u aku i na aina a oi wale aku i ko na mea i noonoo mua ia. 19. Kamehameha. Great, and shall be greater, Kameeiamoku. For thou shalt help me, here on this land of Kapunahou, thou and Hoapili there after thee shall keep the peace, shall judge fairly, thy people shall till the soil and make a cool rest- ing place on this fair land. For as the "new spring" here (approaching it and slowly with retinue passing toward mauka end of stage) flows out refreshing all the plain, so thy rule shall strengthen all and make my gift more fair. And more, (gazing into spring as if seeing a vision) perchance this spring in the hollow of the hills shall water far more than we dream of, who knows, who knows? (Most of retinue is already out of sight mauka. Kame- hameha and others now disappear.) 20 EPISODEU. INTERLUDE A. THE ARRIVAL OF THE MISSIONARIES 1S/J.O. CKOWD of natives rush on from back shouting, pointing makai : 20. Eia ae na ka- naka keokeo me na moku nunui e lele ana, a me na wa- hine keokeo no hoi i uhi ia i na kapa keokeo, he kapa lahilahi e uhi ana i na lima me na kino o lakou a he mau poo nui no hoi ko lakou. 20. "White men! Great flying ships! See, white women, too! All in white tapa, very thin tapa, all over arms and bodies, and very large heads ! Band of ten missionaries steps ashore, natives crowd around, fingering clothing, peering under ladies' poke bon- nets, pinching leather shoes, pulling the missionaries away from shore toward mauka, some natives carrying their boxes and carpet-bags. As missionaries pass center, one takes book from pocket, opens it, showing natives who crowd about wondering; missionary points to sky and indicates book as gift to a chief, perhaps Boki. Other natives wanting one too, missionary picks up a bit of white shell, writes on it and indicates to a native that he take it to another missionary nearer the shore, who on reading the note, gives pile of books under his arm to na- tive messenger. He is amazed, runs back to first mis- sionary with the books, waving shell high in air, shout- ing: 21. Ke olelo mai nei ! He pu olelo ka keia ! Kamaha'o keia mea hou ! He Poe Kahuna nui lakou nei. 21. "It speaks, a talking shell ! Wonderful new things ! These are great kahunas." Others crowd around eagerly, awe-struck at first, then excitedly urge missionaries to come with them, all oft 5 gradually mauka, touching books and shell reverently, clothes curiously. 22 EPISODE m. THE -SECOND-DISPOSAL OF-THE-LAND-1821. Arranged chiefly from Hawaiian testimony given before the Land Commission. OKI and Liliha,with Kaahumanu in blue handcart with red or yellow vel- vet cushions, push- many natives, enter ed by with retinue and a few mis- sionaries, including Bing- ham, Chamberlain, Parker, from makai front, and group in front and makai of spring. BoM (speaks slowly with strong Hawaiian accent). This is the resting place we seek for our farewell. Here Kamehameha came often ; this great land of Ka- Punahou he gave to Liliha's father's father, Kameeia- moku, his faithful chieftain. And hither have I brot you, our teacher-friend whom we love, to say farewell words. Bingham. Boki is going away from among us? Boki. Yes, Boki must go away, for all Hawaii has been reft of its sandalwood, no revenue remains. Boki must go far to the south, whence he will return having two ships laden deep with the fragrant wood. And as the winds are to bring that sweet odor following his ships, so here too among you he would leave a rich fragrance behind him as he sails away. See, Binamu, (taking Bingham by the hand and indicating the great Punahou lands from Round Top and Kocky Hill to the sea) all this land shall be yours, that you and your people may work more easily among mine. Liliha (puzzled and frowning, also near her a bent old man, evidently in sympathy with her; both step nearer Boki, especially as Bingham starts to accept). But, Boki, Kapunahou is mine from my father, Hoapili, I do not - Boki (interrupting with a wave of the hand, letting Bing- ham's hand go.) Be silent, Liliha. Thy father wishes it; I spoke with him but a short time since and found it was so. We have no children. And those who come here shall be our children. Kaahumanu, too, our chief, approves. (Kaa- humanu is pushed forward in her cart and nods slowly.) Kaahumanu. It is indeed so, Liliha, as thy husband has said. Silver and gold have we none, but it is right that we should give of our land to help those who come so far to spend their lives for us. Boki. So, Binamu. But first one other witness. Here, John li, (li, about twenty-five years old, steps out of the crowd) 24 stand forth and give testimony always, lest hereafter an- other come to snatch away our gift. li. I do witness thy giving, Boki. Bingham (to Boki). Governor Boki is very kind. Kaahumanu, our great chief, I would also thank (bowing to each in turn) and, in thanking, make her konohiki (joint administrator) with me, lest another rise in thy absence, Boki, and stir up dis- sension. Boki. That is well done, Binamu. Bingham (as they all begin to pass off mauka of stage) It is a goodly land and it will bring forth more good, for we shall hold it as unto the Lord. (As they pass slow- ly off, the old bent Hawaiian man, letting Liliha go on without him, remains standing beside the pool and begins to oli mournfully. OLI Hawaiian translation by Mrs. Mary Jane Kulani F. Montano. Ua pono no oe e Liliha Eia no o Boki kai hewa Ka haawi lilo i ka aina Hawaii Ika malihini oeoe maka haikea Aheaha la kana ia nei? He-aha kana i imi, mai nei nona iho. Ae, he okomaikai io no, Ua ao mai no i ka pono. Ei'nae ua pani paa ia mai nei Kakou me na kapu hou. Auhea na la, o ke kuokoa? Auhea ke ao Olohe, Kamakani, me na nalu poi? Ko Kamehameha la mokuahana? Ke hoomanao nei no au, Kanaha makahiki, mai ia wa i hala, 25 Ku ihola oia maanei, Me kona oiwi hano-hano Kiekie-loa i oi ae maluna okahi, A haawi aku-la i keia aina okoa O Kapunahou He makana kaua, no kona alii Koanui. Kameeiamoku, makuakane o Hoapili. Pane maila oia i na olelo koi-koi. Pehea ihola la hoi i imai-ai? A-e, hoomaopopo aela au Ke pane mai nei na oka o ka wai Penei, ka pane a Kalani Kamehameha Ma' paha he pono nui e hiki mai ana He pono nui i oi ae manua kena ihe ia manawa Owai kai ike pela ! Owai kai ike ! Pela i'o' ana no He Leo Wanana ! He pono nui loa ! E waiho maila 1 loko o ka hohonu o keia Wai He oiaio e hiki mai ana no ia la I na keiki hanau hou aku O wai ka'i ike ! O wai paha kai ike ! Pela i'o' aku ana no. OLI Liliha now is right, and Boki wrong To give our land away, The land of all Hawaii. And to the stranger with his long pale face. What does he here? What seeks he for himself? Here he shuts us up in new tabus. Where are our old free days, Our storms, our winds, our roaring surf? Kamehameha's days of strife? Well do I remember, was it forty years ago? Well do I remember how that day He stood here, towering up above us all, 26 And granted all this land Kapunahou As gift of war to his great chief, Kameeiamoku, Hoapili's father ; And how he said, what was it that he said? (rubbing hand over eyes and looking into water of pool) Ah, now I know. The water shadows speak. Our great Kamehameha said, Perhaps more good would come, A greater good than he knew then himself, Who knows? (echoing Kamehameha's voice and gesture) Who knows, indeed? Yet it must be There spoke within him then A voice of prophecy! (excitedly) A greater good ! It surely lies there deep Within the spring (gazing in intently) And surely it must come some day To children yet unborn ! Who knows? Who knows? (Turns away toward mauka, and hears many natives mauka back gathering and attempting to lift or roll something heavy. He calls out : ) 22. Eia ae ke hele mai nei e kuhikuhi i na mokuna o Kapunahou i loaa a puka ke kauoha a Kaahumanu. 22. There they come so soon to mark the boundary line of Kapunahou, so soon has Kaahumanu's command gone forth. (He retires off behind hala tree, returning later with the crowd.) 27 EPISODE m.^ INTERLUDE A SETTLEMENT- OF- THE- BOUNDARY AT-KAPUNAHOU. 1831 Taken from the "Historical Essay" on Punahou by Judge Albert Francis Judd. HE ENDS of a frame made of ship's spars appear mauka back, some natives throng about it, others not yet in view heave on to it with a shout Pohakuloa, the great stone about twelve feet high, a truncated cone in shape, but lying on its side on the frame. This stone was sacred. To move it the king's command and even presence were neces- sary. With another shout from the people : 23. KeAlii! KaMoi! Kauikeaouli! 23. "The King! the King!" Kauikeaouli, (Kamehame- ha III) the young king, leaps to the apex and shouts, "Imua!" Kamehameha's word of command. Instantly the hulumanu (common workmen) raise the whole thing, king and all, to their shoulders, and "numerous as ants tugging at a kernel of corn," carry it slowly down in front of the spring to maJcai front of stage. A band of natives follows, chanting until the stone has been de- posited in its place, the king having leapt off. After this the hulumanu raise it to stand erect and, the chanting ended, all disappear maJcai. POHAKU-LOA Hawaiian and English versions by Mrs. Mary Jane Kulani F. Montano. A, he kupua oe E Pohaku-loa Kiai no Punahou Mau a mau loa. You are a fairy God, Pohaku-loa, To guard Punahou, Mau a mau loa. 28 II. II. Hoomohala pua Development is your motto, Imi naau ao Wisdom and ambition, Ku me ka ihi-ihi With dignity you stand, O Pohaku-loa. Pohaku-loa. III. III. No Punahou oe You are for Punahou, Mau a mau loa Mau a mau loa, A he kupua oe You are a fairy God, E Pohaku-loa. Pohaku-loa. Chant sung when a Hawaiian idol was carried : E ku a mu e ku a mu mu ! E kuawa e kuawa wa ! E inu e lanakila Uo ! 29 EPISODE EL A FAREWELL. EH Incidental music written by Vernon E. Tenney, minor, improvising on "Abide with Me," thruout scene, ending in bold major as the child takes the flame. FAMILY group of missionaries, Father, Mother, and seven children, (five boys and two girls) pass sadly across front of stage, from mauka toward makai, the two oldest children (boy and girl) clinging pathetically to their mother's hands. Na- tives behind them push handcart contain- ing two little old trunks and bundles of food in tfi-leaves. Father. See, Mother, here we are almost at the beach. Let us all kneel and pray, that we faint not when the hour of trial is upon us. (All kneel, natives with cart passing on back of them and disappearing makai. All pray silent- ly, then rise with one accord and in a close group, facing makai, sing with the accompanying incidental music. ) "Abide with me ! Fast falls the eventide, The darkness deepens, Lord with me abide. When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, Oh abide with me !" At close, mother catches oldest boy, then the girl to her breast, they kiss their father and the little children, who are beginning to sob even under the father's stern, re- straining look and hand. Oldest boy and girl walk slowly off makai. Others wave goodbye and turn sadly back, waving handkerchiefs as they recross stage toward mauka and disappear. One boy remains, the next to the oldest, not moving from the spot where the two have left him, gazing sadly, wonderingly, off to sea, not waving his handkerchief or making any outward sign. The music con- tinues softly on into Part II, major slowly crowding out minor and ending triumphantly, as the child takes the flame. 30 ROLOG SPIRIT comes in from mauka back on main stage, cross- ing to center front past pool, carrying her flame, sheltering it, glancing mauka front where the fami- ly has disappeared, then at the child, but addressing the audience at first. But yet comes not the time to sing of sons And daughters mine, who came here first Who every hardship knew where law was none, And where, tho welcomed by the child-Hawaiians, Greed and death opposed them. For that first landing on this barren shore Now soon will be a hundred years agone And then a braver tongue than mine shall tell Its tale in song. We look back but five and seventy years Today to see the planning of a school By that bold missionary band. To guide And train the native minds that eager thronged Two schools were early built for simple folk, For royal born as Alcuin long ago Had taught. For their own children this new school Was founded here to keep them all at home, Nor send the oldest ones by far Cape Horn To live their school-years on a soil unknown, In far New England towns. Come hither, child with lonely eyes, nor fear To take and hold this flickering torch. A sign It is, and symbol, of the fire that soon Will burn within thy heart, and shining thru Thine eyes, give witness of a soul awaked. And that awakening shall blossom here, For thou and all thy brothers here shall find A school, nor never need to sail so far Away with longing, homesick heart. (The child, having glanced toward the sea as she speaks, now looks back intently at the flame in his hands, then eagerly up into the Spirit's face. Her own face lights up at the new look in his eyes and she says : ) No longer lonely are thine eyes, my child, So soon have they caught up my glowing flame, As much I hoped they might. (Takes her flame from his hands, holds it with both hands and continues:) 32 Now deep within thy heart thou'lt hold my fire Of courage, strength, and truth, and at thy side Thou soon shalt see the waters of this spring Much fruitful Christian love and kindness bear Not only over all this thirsty land, But flowing far abroad. (Both disappear, as Spirit did before, behind trees and shrubbery makai, toward back. ) 33 EPISODE V THE BEGINNINGS: A GROUP OFTHEEBRLY TRUSTEES. 18^1-2. E3EK3BE3 ous EMSTEONG, Emerson, Hall, and Lowell Smith enter makai front and pause in seri- discussion. At makai back natives are at work, as quietly as possible at first, bringing mud or adobe blocks, removing shrubbery, cutting down and carrying off trees with the aid of an ox team, thus gradually dis- covering the original E- shaped building with the big kamani tree before it. Dr. Judd is seen busy supervis- ing a few natives who are still working on the cellar, now almost complete. Armstrong (pausing in steady walk). Let us not hasten too greatly, Brethren, in this heat. (Most of them are lean as spare-ribs, but one, somewhat heavier, puffs a little, removes his hat gratefully and mops his brow.) Emerson. It were unwise, I think, Brother Armstrong, to delay overmuch. The entire structure, so far as it has pro- ceeded, must be given our keenest oversight ere darkness settle upon us ; and with the dawn, duty demands my re- turn to my own outlying station. Smith. Brother Emerson argueth well, as always. But look! (pointing back makai wing nearest Honolulu whence they have emerged) Can you not descry a conveyance yonder on the plain? Armstrong (small and active). To be sure, to be sure ! Can it be that the long looked- for vessel, the "Good Hope," has arrived in our absence? (All look intently. ) Hall (nearest to the approaching wagon). Your surmise is indeed correct, Brother Emerson. It is no other than Brother Chamberlain's white horse ! And our brother waited, as you may recall, that in just this event he might convey hither our newly-arrived Brother Dole. (Wagon draws up, Chamberlain introducing Dole to the four pedestrians; all shake hands.) Armstrong (heartily). This is a famous coincidence, Brother Dole, and right heartily do we bid you welcome. Here we are met on the very mission which you have come to fulfill. Yonder lies Punahou, embryonic yet, but full of boundless promise ! Dole. Is that indeed the spot? Emerson. It is the very spot of which Kev. Reuben Tinker ex- 35 claimed now ten years since, as he was passing with Broth- er Baldwin : "That, sir, is the site of the future college." Hall. And not much later Brother Bingham at General Meet- ing approved of its reservation by the Board for a mis- sion school. Smith (confidentially to Dole). Brother Hall is perhaps too modest to add that with Sister Hall, also Brother and Sister Dimond, he has spent many blistering days laying and directing the laying of our great stone wall yonder, where Sister Bingham's night- blooming cereus is just coming into flower. (Here Chamberlain starts off slowly in wagon toward the building, drives around kamani tree, gravely salutes Dr. Judd in passing, and so off stage. This starts the other brethren out of their eager reminiscence and they proceed slowly toward the building. Brother Chamber- lain, having left wagon off stage, rejoins them before they reach the building. Tho not old men, they are all serious and intent.) Dole. Am I right, Brethren, in the belief that a school has al- ready come into being here? Smith. Quite right, Brother Dole, a very small day school for young children kept by Sister Bingham in her parlor. That is the nucleus of Punahou School. Emerson. Was the nucleus, my dear Brother, if we would inform our new Principal with accuracy, for Brother and Sister Bingham left us eleven months since and even before that their two elder children often crossed the dusty plain to the real nucleus, the little school in Dr. Judd's back yard at Kawaiahao. Chamberlain (who rejoins them near the kamani tree). Do you observe, Brethren, what splendid progress has been made this fortnight? Brother Judd there emerges smiling from his completed cellar and the building itself, 36 I find, is well nigh ready for its several occupants. (All approach building. ) Judd. Well met, Brethren ! Have we not wrought faithfully these two weeks? But who is this, a stranger - Armstrong. Nay, no stranger, no one but our new brother just ar- rived by the "Good Hope" only one hundred and ninety- seven days from Boston! Suffer me to present our first Principal of the Punahou School, Eev. Daniel Dole. The new school is now well under way ! Judd. Indeed, can this really be? My thoughts have buried themselves so zealously of late that my eyes have followed them underground instead of scanning the horizon yonder where they might easily have descried the "Good Hope." But, in truth, you are welcome, Brother Dole. Will you not first inspect the foundations? (Others have been looking about into doors, one or two disappearing with- in. ) Begin at the bottom, is my family motto ! And inci- dentally, our cellar there you will find flawless in con- struction, for it has had my most exacting supervision, as Brother Chamberlain will testify. Chamberlain. That I will, for I have stood shoulder to shoulder with Brother Judd in this important enterprise. I beg you will inspect minutely ! (As all begin to disappear into cellar door, Brother Emerson is the last and says distinctly he always speaks with square precision ) Emerson. This must be done with despatch, Brethren, for much still remains to be viewed, and already the shadow of the kamani tree begins to lengthen obliquely toward the east. (All disappear.) 37 EPISODE TO. A SCHOOL DAY IN THE FORTIES- ABOUT FTEK a pause, sounds begin to be heard about the house, tramping of feet, open- ing and shutting of doors. Presently Mr. Kice appears heading a group of boys, large and small, barefoot, in brown linen shirts and "high water" trousers with big tucks in them, mostly one or two tucks or with the unfaded streak where they have been let out. One new boy, Thomas, about 14 years old, has newer clothes and three tucks in trousers. Another very small fellow, David, about six years old, same cos- tume as other, but two tucks in trousers. Rice. Come, boys, it is not yet Saturday afternoon with young Bishop and Lee coming to play ball with you. We must be about our work, or that field will not be weeded before breakfast. (Most of the older boys run around makai end of building and start makai with a few rakes, hoes, bags. Two or three are seen to hitch up the ox cart and drive it off makai. Thomas seems awkward and not know- ing just what to do, speaks to David as they also start makai.) Thomas. I wish my pants had only two tucks like yours, David, and the other boys' ! Are you going to pull weeds, too? Rice (thinking to curb any incipient tendency to idleness) . Thrift begets health and wealth, Thomas, and we can- not too early begin to learn that truth, neither too early in life nor too early in the day. (All move toward makai, the boys ahead of Bice, some running, but mostly quite sedate.) 38 Rice. George Henry, that dry spot is yours, you remember, where the weeds come hardest. No dallying and gazing at the sea ! He that eats must work. (All off makai.) (Meanwhile a few girls begin to stir about the house, opening windows, pushing back curtains, and dusting. Miss Marcia Smith's voice is heard directing. A thread of smoke begins to curl up from the back of building cen- ter and a clatter of dishes comes from the front end of middle wing, doors and windows are opened, chairs pushed about. A little girl runs out to shake her dust- cloth and remains looking off makai, surreptitiously wav- ing dustcloth to one of the boys off stage. Miss Smith ap- pears at the dining room door.) Miss Smith. Susan Abigail, must I repeat to you every morning that shiftlessness is the root of all evil? (Susan Abigail turns at once and enters slowly, head a little bent, but right eye glancing makai still, dustcloth trailing from left hand. Miss Smith glances across to window of makai wing where a fair, curly-haired little girl has perched herself idly on the window sill, an older one standing beside her, twirling the yellow curls about her fingers. Miss Smith crosses the open court toward them and speaks sternly, but not harshly. ) Miss Smith. You have started here on the rugged, upward way of life, my children. And you will find that you are tread- ing a path strewed with magic thorns and flowers. If you go forward and tread resolutely upon the thorns, they will become flowers. If you turn from the path of duty to gather the flowers, they will become thorns. (Little child looks up wonderingly into her face. As both turn to obey, the boys come back, Kice behind them. Tools are put away behind makai end of building. All the boys look hot, the little fellows tired, too. They disappear into building and presently many feet are heard going toward middle wing, (dining room) where chairs are pulled out; 39 after a pause, while Mr. Dole's voice is heard saying rather long grace,the rattle of knives and forks is heard. During breakfast three or four boys trudge up from town bare-footed and dressed like the boarders, hot and dusty, and wait under kamani tree with books and lunch pails, fanning themselves with straw hats, chatting quietly, one little fellow attempting to climb the big tree, falling out, and being boosted up into it again by older boy. Presently the Chamberlain wagon approaches makai front, driven by Chamberlain, six children spring out under kamani tree and Chamber- lain after handing out pails, turns and drives back, off makai. From dining room sound of pushing chairs ; one boy runs out of dining room, making a face at town group on way to mauka wing, whence he brings to the door, and blows vigorously, a large conch shell. A teacher is seen through windows passing from dining room around to mauka wing to school room ; boarders run across to other wing for books and slates with dangling sponges; town group comes up, all chatting together and all enter mauka wing, moving around among desks, hanging up pails, chat- ting. Sound of vigorous rapping of ruler on teach- er's desk is heard to bring silence, broken only by droning of recitations, rapping of ruler, steps of teacher. A little girl comes to door with wet sponge to wash slate, sits down on step, wrings out sponge and sits idly, waving sponge in sunshine. A large boy appears at door and summons her in. Droning continues. Conch shell blown at door again by same boy. All rush out, boarder boys off around mauka wing to corner of pool and stream hid- den by hau bushes, splashing and shouting, returning very soon with wet, tousled hair and shouting to town boys as they run into dining room : "Now you can have it ! We've left it neat and clean!" While they are away, boarder girls are rattling dishes in dining room ; outdoors, town children chat, girls begin to eat from their pails; one boy happens to look into his pail and finding it empty, ex- hibits it ruefully, mumbling, "I'll make that miserable boarder smart for this, I will!" Boarders return and 40 enter dining room ; town boys all off with pails to spring, returning very soon. Conch shell calls from school door again. All in as before; same droning. Chamberlain wagon again from makai; conch shell again, town chil- dren run out, the six all into wagon again, others trudging along behind it. Boarder boys out again, as before, with tools.) Rice. We must get out those hau roots in the back yard this afternoon, boys, so that our corn can be sown tomorrow. David. I'll help, too, but I don't see how even William and Or- ramel, I don't see how even you could dig out those tough roots, Mr. Eice. Rice (as they disappear around corner) . What man has done, man can do. We will tug at them with a right good will, David. Then when seven stars show up, you are thru with a good conscience. (All dis- appear around mauka end. Two or three girls come into the court yard to water flowers and trees, using buckets and dipper. Miss Smith pops her head out of a window now and then to watch them. Boys are heard returning at back depositing tools, then seen running toward bathing pond. Girls in, setting table again. Boys run back from pond, entering back of building; all into dining room; sound of grace, then clatter; one loud guffaw from a big boy, followed by stern tones of a man's voice ; silence, ex- cept for knives and forks. Chairs pushed back for pray- ers; little boy, Samuel, runs out stealthily across court, older girl, Maria Ellen, appearing after him, hails him half way across the court. Maria Ellen. Come back, Samuel, Miss Smith saw you and will surely send you to sit on her green trunk for two hours, if you do not come back to prayers this moment. Samuel (reappearing at opposite door, pouting). But I can't sing and I hate to sit there through prayers, Maria Ellen ! 41 Maria Ellen. Now come, Samuel, there's a good boy! Do you know what Miss Smith will do? She will stand you up at the melodeon beside her and right before everybody oh, I've seen her do it, you needn't laugh and right before every- body she'll say, as she opens her hymn book out flat, (mimicking seriously) : "Little birds that can sing and won't sing, must be made to sing !" Samuel. Well, I suppose I've got to! (Both hurry in quietly. Little melodeon begins to play "Hark from the tombs a doleful sound.") HAEK FKOM THE TOMBS Hark ! from the tombs a doleful sound, Mine ears attend the cry ; Ye living men come view the ground, Where you must shortly lie. (All sing one stanza. Sound of kneeling, and man's voice praying ; then all move again and disperse to rooms. ) 42 EPISODE Sff. PUNAHOU- SCHOOL BECOMES OAHU- COLLEGE. Taken from the report of the event itself in 1854. NUMBER of teachers, including Mr. Dole, Mr. and Mrs. Kice among others, come out of building, followed by several students. Mr. Dole groups pupils together under tree while Mr. and Mrs. Rice come front to greet people arriving from town in bug- gies, and high, almost closed carriages. The guests include members of the mis- sion families and friends of the school, such as Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bishop. They group under shade of kamani tree, pupils having brought out benches for them and for themselves, audience facing makai toward tree where are grouped Clark, Armstrong, Damon, Dole, Beckwith, Lowell Smith. Pupils sit together at right of the speakers, facing front. Clark. Let us invoke God's blessing on this gathering ! ( Stands an instant with hand raised and head bowed, then sits down. Chorus of pupils then rise and sing the "Pilgrim Chorus" from Verdi's "I Lombard!.") PILGRIM CHORUS From afar, Gracious Lord, thou hast gathered Thy flock on the shores of the ocean. Thee they owned as their God and their Father ; And when left in the wild waste forlorn, Still they served Thee with steadfast devotion. Hear the cry which their children are sending With the accents of penitence blending, Save thy people from peril and scorn. Oh, let peace bend its iris arch o'er us, Gentle breezes and waves with our voices, Sing of light, love, and freedom in chorus, 43 Till the Eden of old be renewed. Ah ! our sins would call down thy displeasure, But thy goodness the sad heart rejoices, Be thy mercy displayed without measure, And by mercy our souls be subdued, And by mercy our souls be subdued, Our souls be subdued, our souls be subdued. (After pupils are seated, Armstrong rises.) Armstrong. The Punahou School had its origin in the wants of the children connected with the families of the American Mis- sion in these islands. Burdened with pastoral cares, the parents found themselves unable to devote the necessary time to their children. To send them afar off at a tender age was both unnatural and inexpressibly painful. There grew up, therefore, in this garden spot a school-home which has formed a very important part of the missionary establishment. Today is an epoch-making day. That Punahou School has by an enlarged charter been transformed into the Oahu College. We have come together to inaugurate our first President, Kev. Edward G. Beckwith, who for the last three years has served our Royal School with such marked success. Brother Damon, the Vice-President of our Board of Trustees, will administer the oath of office. (Arm- strong sits and Damon rises.) Damon. Mr. Edward G. Beckwith. (Beckwith rises.) By an unanimous vote of the Board of Trustees of the Oahu Col- lege, you have been chosen as the first President of that In- stitution. You do now publicly, and in the fear of God, assume this high and responsible trust. Beckwith. I thank the Board of Trustees for the confidence which they have reposed in me, and for the honor which they have conferred on me in electing me to this office. 44 Damon. On behalf of the Board of Trustees, it becomes my duty to declare you as duly inaugurated and invested with this office, in token of which I hereby present you with the keys of the Institution. Having now invested you with the in- signia of your official station, Mr. President, as the head of the Oahu College, I cannot refrain from offering a few brief remarks naturally suggested by this occasion. ( Beck- with sits. ) This was recently a land of darkness, but into the very midst thereof the schoolmaster pushed his way, holding up the lamp of learning, lighted at the altar of Christianity. Darkness made visible is now passing away, while civilization, commerce and Christianity are struggling and combining their forces to gather upon Ha- waiian shores the elements of true national prosperity. There are opposing influences, but it needs no prophet's ken to foresee which shall triumph. A good beginning has already been made in our school here. Kespected Sir, allow me to pledge you and your asso- ciate, Rev. Daniel Dole, the cordial sympathy and support of the Board of Trustees in the furtherance of their plans for the new Oahu College. (Damon sits, Beckwith rises.) Beckwith. The enterprise which has called us together is new. We are laying the foundations of what we hope may hereafter be a symmetrical structure. He, only, is a true teacher who can awaken in the young mind a consciousness of its own powers, and fasten there an enthusiastic determination to strive to fulfill its high responsibilities. Provide an institution with a corps of such teachers, and, if necessity requires it, your library shelves will not long be empty, nor your philosophical collections be limit- ed to a broken electrical battery and a squeaking orrery. There is a question which is sometimes asked. Parents have sometimes said to me : "Do you think it will pay to educate my son? Isn't he rather dull and unpromising?" Pay? Will it pay to train your son to be a man? What 45 do such parents mean? Because the eyes of their child's mental vision are feeble, will they close them utterly with the weight of ignorance? Do parents ever so deal with their child's physical nature? Do they not rather feel themselves under greater obligation to care for the weakly one, sparing no expense to overcome his infirmities and give him a strong and vigorous body? Why then should they neglect to educate the mind because it is dull or feeble? But there is a higher reason than these why your chil- dren should be educated. God requires it. He requires that men should love him with all the heart, and with all the soul, and with all the mind; not with a mind that is suffered to run to waste, untaught, undeveloped ; but with a mind trained and fitted for His service. Two principles I would leave with you in regard to our young college here. For the highest good of a country, its mental resources must be developed within itself, and, as far as possible, by its own agencies. And I would have a college here that our sons may l>e educated as far as pos- sible under a home influence and a parental guidance. Let us build a temple where learning may be enshrined ; on whose altar art, and literature, and religion may lay their holiest offerings. (Beckwith turns to sit, others rise, grasp him by the hand, audience gathers round, mur- mur of voices. All disperse.) 46 EPISODE3Znr. FRIDAY AFTERNOOR AN OPEN MEETING OF THE FUNAHOU DEBATIM& SOCIETY ISfei. Suggested by boyish records of actual proceedings in the fifties. FEW teams drive up with, ten or twelve children and two or three older people. Thirty or forty pupils and a few teach- ers, including Mr. and Mrs. Mills and Win. Bailey, flock out hilariously to meet them; they descend and teams drive off. Much chatter as they seat themselves. Henry Baldwin (oldest boy as chairman). There seems to be indecision in our ranks. Shall we return to our hot school-room for discussion? Or, as some propose, give lungs and heads the benefit of an out-of-door debate here under our old tree? (Shouts of "Here! Here!" "No, let's go inside!") Baldwin (clearly). It must be put to vote. All those in favor of open air discussion, say Aye! (Shouts of Ayes. } All those op- posed to fresh air, say No! (Feeble squeak of Noes.) The Ayes have it! (Majority, with teachers, group in front of and makai of kamani tree, sitting on the ground, facing mauka where a group of debaters, older boys, gather, one side sitting with backs to school building fac- ing both audiences, opposite side sitting mauka front of them facing stage audience and half facing big audience. Between the two sides sits the chairman on a stump rolled out for him by two small boys from behind building. Baldwin. Ladies and Gentlemen: The subject for today's dis- cussion chosen by the society at its last meeting, is Food : The ways in which it should be used ; the proper 47 quantity to be taken ; and the quality of that quantity. I call upon Mr. Thurston to open the discussion. Tom Thurston. Mr. Chairman, in this discussion the first point to be settled is the articles which we shall deal with as food. We must consider as food all edible liquids and solids. Will Castle (springs to his feet, waving arm in air). Mr. Chairman : I take exception to this arbitrary man- ner of opening the debate. It must be clear to every per- son of intelligence, that, for example, salt water and raw taro are an edible liquid and solid. (Hotly.) Also, con- sider alcoholic and narcotic beverages. Have we not the divine command that we look not upon the wine when it is red? How can Baldwin. Mr. Thurston, (who has remained standing) it is now in order for you to define the conception edible. Thwrston. Mr. Chairman: I do not stand corrected, for if my fiery opponent had observed the rules of debate, I should have had time to say that by edible is meant everything which may be taken into the body through the mouth and absorbed by the body without injury to that body. I might add that edible is derived from the Latin word edo, to eat. (Shout of "Hear! Hear! No classics!" from rear of audience. Chairman rises and speaks sternly.) Baldwin. It becomes necessary for me to appoint Mr. Bond from my left and Mr. Clark from my right to act temporarily as moderators among the audience. (They rise and go back of audience where they stand.) Should any dis- order occur among members of the debating society, I must beg to be informed of such. (Frank Lyman springs up at left. ) Frank Lyman (a thin boy). Mr. Chairman. Baldwin. Mr. Lyman. 48 Lyman. I move that we now consider our second point, the quan- tity to be taken. Charlie Cooke (a fat boy, on same side, eagerly). I second the motion. (Shout from back, "Oh, Fatty!" A moderator, Clark or Bond, steps quickly up to Chair- man and whispers in his ear. ) Baldwin. It becomes my grievous duty to report a misdemeanor on the part of a junior member of the society. A motion for a vote of censure against the name of Mr. Horatio Bailey is now in order. (Holding up a warning hand.) Let me remind the society of Article 31 b of our Constitu- tion and By-Laws which brings suspension upon a mem- ber receiving three votes of censure. Sam Wilcox. I move that two votes of censure be imposed upon Mr. Bailey. ( Three or four on opposite sides, simultaneously, "I second the motion.") Baldwin. It is moved and seconded that two votes of censure be imposed upon Mr. Bailey. Those in favor, please stand. (Entire company rises, contestants and non-contestants, except culprit. ) It is a vote. (All sit. Pause.) What is your pleasure in regard to the continuance of our debate? Abraham Kahai (long and lanky, slowly gets to his feet, drawling). Mr. Chairman, it would seem as though the temper of the society were less edibly than pugnaciously inclined to- day. I therefore move that the subject now under discus- sion be closed and that a new subject Baldwin ( interrupting ) . Only one motion is in order at a time, Mr. Kahai. Is there any second to this motion? Charlie Cooke (vigorously). I second the motion on the ground that it is too soon after lunch anyway for such discussion. (Loud snores 49 from rear of audience, where moderators are seen prod- ding sleepy heads who are falling against their neighbors and causing disturbance. ) Baldwin (sternly). A second to the motion before the house is in order, but accompanying remarks are utterly unconstitutional. It is moved and seconded that the present unprofitable dis- cussion be abandoned. Those in favor, please raise the right hand. (All contestants and some in audience raise right hand ; some of the sleepy ones ostentatiously put up left ; cries of "Go to bed ! Sleepy-head !" Moderators step carefully about again prodding sleepers, roughly putting down their left hands for them and jerking up the right ones.) Baldwin. It is a vote. Mr. Kahai, your second motion is now in order. Abraham Kahai (shambles to his feet, always drawling). Mr. Chairman, I would now put before the society the question : Shall slavery continue to be a system of labor in the United States? Baldwin. The subject is so timely a one, Mr. Kahai, that its dis- cussion may be considered open without formality. Mr. Kahai has the floor. ( Sleepy shout from rear : "Let him keep it!") Kahai (who has remained standing). It is needless to state the question more fully or to enter into hair-splitting definitions. It becomes a question of humanity. Shall one human being own another? I am sure that any rational being will not so demean his race as to claim that a human being can be bartered like an ox or a cord of wood. Wm. Rowell (rising). Mr. Chairman. Baldwin. Mr. Rowell. 50 Rowell. Mr. Chairman, my worthy opponent begs the question in calling on rational beings to decide it, for it is an ac- knowledged fact that the negro is mentally less fully equipped than rational white beings and cannot in the same breath be classed with them. (Sits. Castle starts to rise. ) Baldwin. Mr. Kahai has the floor. Abraham Kahai (continuing). Mr. Chairman, since it seems necessary, I beg leave to remind my opponents of the Punahou boys who are risk- ing their lives in the northern ranks. You all know them. They are Sam Armstrong, Nat Emerson, Will Forbes and James Chamberlain. Can we conceive of their fight- ing for any but a noble cause? Castle (jumping up). I object. Personalities must not enter into pure debate. Baldwin. Your interruption, Mr. Castle, can be overlooked only in overruling your ill-timed objection. (Castle sits.) Mr. Kahai continues to have the floor. Kahai. Can any of us ever forget Sam Armstrong's last debate three years ago? How he carried us all along on the waves of his eloquence in his argument against war? I can hear him still : "The destiny of Man is to glorify his Creator. Does Man fulfill that manifest destiny by mutilating and killing his brother man? No, a thousand times, no! The blighting horrors of war are never ut- tered, it is only the praise of conquerors that we hear! And let me tell you that there is no hope of war's passing until peace has been made as virile and attractive as war. Fellow citizens, the Dove is no match for the Devil!" That was our Sam! And yet he fights today, (murmurs of approval) because he knows the North is right! (Shouts of "Eight! Right it is!") Mr. Chairman, may we not waive ceremony? Chairman nods. Speaker 51 turns to audience no longer drawling, but in terse, vigor- ous tones.) I appeal to the house. Shall slavery continue? Shall America be divided? (A long shout of "No !" brings entire gathering to its feet. Speaker starts "Battle Hymn of Republic," is joined by all, even the Pageant audience is impelled to its feet and joins in volume of sound.) BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC Words by Julia Ward Howe I. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord ; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stor'd; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword ; His truth is marching on. REFRAIN. Glory, glory, Hallelujah, Glory, glory Hallelujah, Glory, glory, Hallelujah, His truth is marching on. II. He hath sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat ; He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment- seat; Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him, be jubilant, my feet; Our God is marching on. Ref . III. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. Ref. (Toward end all on stage start marching off, repeating chorus, one group returning to school building, the other off makai center. Audience sits down as last strains die away from wings. ) 52 EPISODE EEC. QUARTER-CENTURY CELEBRATION 1866. Taken from the report of the occasion. REAT stirring is heard within building. People begin to gather from all points, mauka, makai, old bus comes jogging on full of pupils, an older boy driving. Great hilarity of greeting. President Alexander steps to a little platform built around the kamani tree and taps on the tree for atten- tion. Crowd faces him, greeting him with a round of applause before he speaks. Alexander. We are met today as you know, to mark Punahou's first mile-stone, to celebrate her twenty-fifth birthday. But before we enter our now historic dining-room yonder for the mental and bodily banquet prepared for us, I would beg you to tarry here for a moment while an important an- nouncement is made. A. F. Judd. It now becomes my duty to announce to this honorable gathering that for the first time in her existence Oahu Col- lege is possessed of a written history. (Shout of "Three cheers for our historian Judd!" Applause. Judd bows and continues, weighing his words.) And this history, having passed through the hands of our printer, H. M. Whitney, ( "Hear, hear ! Whitney !") a copy of it in pamph- let form lies at every place set for yonder banquet. (Loud applause.) I would have no one of you think that the compilation of this memorial has been a simple task, although it surely has been a delightful one. The search for material has been painstaking and, in many cases, arduous. Now I am allowed to make myself the mouthpiece of a prophecy as the seer of a vision about to come true. At no very distant season, Punahou is to divide itself, and in the division, is to grow in size and strength. In other words, a preparatory department for little folk is to be opened in Honolulu proper. Fifteen years ago Punahou was opened to all students, no longer confined to those connected with the mission families. Very soon she will open her doors still wider, and with an enlarged faculty be prepared to minister to the wants of the very little ones. (Vigorous applause, especially from the mothers, some waving their handkerchiefs, men their hats. ) Alexander. Everyone here is now doubtless in a mood to adjourn to the twenty-fifth anniversary banquet. (Judd goes to the door and sounds the old conch shell. Amid great rejoicing and hilarity all turn, enter the building and disappear.) 54 EPISODE IX. INTERLUDE A. THE VERY 1.ITTL.E FOL.K. The growth of the pool is shown in symbolic dance by children. One group comes first as clouds, settling above pool ; the next as rain ; the third as water-lilies appearing from under the rain dancers. The picture thus formed re- mains in tableau till the end of the scene. A flute begins to sound back of the building, a troop of little children appear at all points on the stage, and led by the flute all converge toward center near mauka wing, wondering, listening, looking, uttering no sound. The flute continues. An older child appears at door of makai wing of building, with tiny flame (that of Prolog Spirit in miniature) and crossing to where children stand spell- bound, gives the flame to one of them. The spell is broken. Fountain begins to play higher. Children begin to dance toward pool, circling about flame-bearer, and sing "The Song of the Morning Stars," one flute accompanying, an- other diverging. Dancers leaning over the pool as they move, catch the star-like reflection of the flame on the water. 55 >f t \c TTl o r n i t\ f S t a^, ?nri/ JDi llrnpta'* Frtir i ^ B *? ^ r T^^ t+JJU. fefe *== t ^ m Y r f f r rLfi 7 J J/ ' ,W F p t ^ f r p 4 :_., " ^L t b f ( ./.,... -F P t- (- IT ^-p 1 U-H H 1 [r j JWU. 4r f 4 \ t ~^- J r P0 r < ^. -i j f ^ f 1 1 f -j- *- ft^ P 4 r u f l, r 9 -b i ' V . bind o 9=* r i+ bw>^ # + Lu^ I u /i - ttr- 5 7 TH i-i 31 a ^i fKt-re. ; Ttey rn& 6 \ g j -5 j * j- .J : : *r J ^2 ^ -P * r r r r 3 2 J 3 - B J * _ * 2! / r P 1 P - r T I > "^ i f^ , t\ -J-- . i -i f r 'err rr n^ ^ ^ ^^^ ^ HS ^ v^ ^ h id i ? * Htn.miHf steps EPISODE XI. PUN AHOU YESTERDAY AND -TODAY. T LAST line of prolog, Spirit ex- tends right hand toward mauka and in same direction, seeming to call on, without speaking, groups of the classes waiting in mauka wings; many of them troop on silently, looking up at her. Tableau for an in- stant. Then she starts back makai. This breaks the spell. The big group sepa- rates and the procession of the seventy-five c la s s e s starts, each class in costume and with banner, the or- chestra accompanying with Captain Berger's "Overture to Punahou." 1841 leads on, raising banner with date, across back of stage mauka to makai, and passing very slowly down stage and across front, the whole procession forms a large ellipse, 1841 approaching 1916 again. As 1916 troops along, across back stage, 1841 reappears mauka of, but unseen by it. At this, the Prolog Spirit, who has been standing makai of spring, seeming to lead the procession, tho unnoticed by the actors after the "spell" was broken, turns and starts back mauka, as if to welcome 1841 again. 1916 notices this, attracted by her turning, turns also and meets the oldest member of 1841 in front of the spring, grouping about him, lowering ban- ner toward him, bowing, and all singing the song of homage which follows, accompanied by orchestra. 69 SON&.of HOMA&t lit* x fil 4^ :H ft " V ' ^^ All Ha\l. As do\ /i D ^ I^"~"~""^^^~"~^B r X b 1 ^r\^-\ p * Q 70 rf? f 1 : f 1 fr- * J j- |- H ICZZZK , M MX* y - .01 East and Yfest *; H P V- And started we\l that rvcK in- e ) T : : 3 > 1 F ' * F he r r r - t - tancc "to grow That makes the pajt and ^ m crewn. of ?vx- na. - VIOUL . -All Hail ! A\l S 1 71 All the other classes have grouped themselves in a huge crescent extending to the two front ends of the stage, all looking toward 1841 and 1916. Prolog Spirit stands above on platform center, back of spring which bubbles up a little higher during the song. At end of song all classes raise banners in air, looking at old 1841 and extending banners toward them. During the salute, the spring shoots up into a fine spray and continues to play until the very end. As the last notes of the "Song of Homage" die away from the orchestra, the crescent of the seventy-five classes con- tracts, falling back with banners still held high and group- ing in two wings that radiate from the spring and the Prolog Spirit above it, out to the ends of the back terrace. The orchestra changes to the following Punahou hymn, a signal at which the entire school of the present day, Pre- paratory and Academy, troop on to the main stage, form a huge Punahou pennant in buff and blue, and sing the Ka- Punahou hymn. 72 KAPUNAHOU M. Dmn 1T\ t-. l*VlC' fe ~^ J ,'r J i - r r - 1 .' i -J f t P- Her K ht *TA^ < ^ TttT U * x*. TaVfi '^ P ^** pu.faf\ ftT 9 ^*T u*T A 4 Here V*rc %ur tatVr* - t**t*J for vs A 5 ry A A ,/ J P"-^ ^ 4' 2 m 1 *l -U 1 j -j fr- ^ < m ' ^ - i 3 j i ~f 1* f~ "* ^' * . r t * i LL i L- JB i .i< J -- _ -._, .,<^. .-> J^JJ^^^ tV\f- if aiU o- c.a TS step trngtti< n i n eli OHT - lite IT\ fee - Vt< ^ s t 1 iff 73 to cVf ld We i i i ^ 14- 'J J. j. J. jno tVie m UT W m PPI tf ores, yvt. ^f^ff ^ At the close, the pennant breaks up, all turn to face the spring and, with hands raised toward it, sing the Punahou pledge. 74 .B.C. Mr % ret EUttrx kmAle* y r by year O ELF g^c W - ter - \no Hi* fVvn Vier *-l - ,Tr's J H ;j* g ib^bz WHft t-Vi atr*mi df Icarntno qucnc latn i g oucnck ThVrt - y iou.ls a fo--c.>\ In W Vienvt^ i ^ Love a-nJL Sine we -" pr'uej To her narne Guirct To Yke Ccuir ci -. XITI art ^t: fe s^= ->. - na - V\o\. ka. PC Pu. - rv*.- Kou. Ho i> 75 Broie- ^ 3 HT ,u.r f\*doe of ur4 for tKee Lea.rmno'- ngs sprng' e VI i* Corn's torek a- i -n; 1 ? 31 ^ * a ^L * XL - "^ ^ ZT~if -i *H * +-. s-^f^* * H * - II The pledge ended, all face about for the Punahou cheer to the tune of "Maryland." Oahu wa, Oahu wa, Punahou, our Punahou; Mau a mau, oh ! mau a mau, Punahou, our Punahou. Seventy-five years we've shown our light, We glory in Oahu's might ; The Buff and Blue's a glorious sight, Punahou, our Punahou. The orchestra then continuing to play various Punahou songs, all the participants come directly down stage to greet parents and friends in the audience, thus bringing the pageant to a close and placing Punahou's seventy-fifth year in the realm of history. 76 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Tho the preface of this Pageant Book may seem to some to play only on the surface of things, its gratitude is all the more "of the still waters that run deep." Valuable aid has been given by such a host of Punahou friends that they must, perforce, remain unnamed. Direct acknowledgement of sources has been made wherever possible. In addition to these, Miss Hawthorne of the Cooke Library and Mr. Lydecker, the librarian of the Hawaiian Archives, have lent material assistance. Miss Winne, Judge Dole and Mr. Griffiths have from the first, by their steady encouragement and tireless patience in proof-reading, identified themselves with an undertaking which would, without them, have been impossible. Save the "Historical Essay" referred to on page 28, the only real history of Punahou exists in brief accounts prepared for the anniversaries from 1881 to 1906 by Prof. William DeWitt Alex- ander. For accuracy of fact and of expression, recourse has been had to these again and again, thus emphasizing the appropriate- ness of the phrase, "the mind of Hawaii," once used to charac- terize Prof. Alexander. ETHEL M. DAMON. Honolulu, June, 1916. 77 UCSB LIBRARY X - A 000 589 482 9