Plainfield High School - Milestone Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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‘ | The ORACLE | “I am Sir Oracle, and when! ope my lips, let no dog bark.”’ Ucar Book of the Class of 1912 BOARD OF EDITORS DIXON CC; PHILLIES HELEN L,. WOOLLEY SCHUYLER W. LINE EFFIE A. BEEKMAN ELMER L. HUNTING MABEL EK. FOSTER BURNETT O. DOANE HONORARY EDITORS Miss ELLEN K CUMMING Mr. HENRY R. HUBBARD BUSINESS MANAGERS FRANK P. CULLEN A BRUCE CONLIN JAMES I). McNABB Entered as Second class Matter November 17, 1924, at the Post Office at Plainfield, N. J., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Published on the first Wednesday of every month during the school year, by the students of the Plainfield, N. J., High School. Printed by THe W. H. Nicwors Press, 119-121 East Fourth Street, Plainfield. 25 CENTS THIS COPY 75 CENTS THE YEAR VOLUME XI JUNE, 1912 NUMBER 9 Mr. Hubbard Now that we are finishing our High School life, we realize more and more the true and lasting friendships that we leave behind. We feel that all the faculty are our friends, but there is one teacher whom we feel is the warmest of all. While some of us had known Mr. Hub- bard since entering as Freshmen, it was not until the beginning of this our last and best year in P. H. S. that we all came to realize what a splendid friend he was. We have had many difficulties to surmount, many hard questions to decide, but through all our troubles, Mr. Hub- bard has helped us toward the right goal, until now we stand with our record made. While we realize that we have made mistakes, yet had

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MR. HUBBARD

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4 THE ORACLE it not been for his wise Counsel and help we would not be able to icok back on Senior year with so much pleasure. So, in leaving, we wish him the greatest happiness and success in the future, and hope that other Senior classes will experience his kindly help: In Remembrance The Following Tribute was Delivered by DOCTOR MAXSON to the Pupils of the High School on the Death ef Mr. LEANDER N. LOVELL In a few weeks the trees will be putting out their leaves, the flowers will be coming into bloom. What is the power that drives these leaves out on the trees, that causes the flowers to bloom? We cannot seé it, we cannot feel it, but we know it is there because we see the results in the beauty that clothes the earth in spring. As you came to school this morning, you saw the flag waving from its staff. What causes the flapping of that beautiful bunting? We cannot see it, and yet we know the force is there by the motion of the flag. When I walk in the fields, f see a row of trees, sassafras and oak and other self-sown trees, running straight as a line through the meadows. How it is that these self-sown trees should make so perfect a line? Years ago there was an old fence running through that field and under its protecting influence the seeds that drifted in on the wings of the zephyrs took root and sprang up and grew, and, now, altho the fence has been gone for many a year, I know it once stood there by the result which I see. So, all through the physical world, there are numberless forces which we do not see, which we do not feel, of which for the most part we are unconscious, that produce effects. In like manner, in the spirit- ual and mental world there are influences of which we are for the most part unconscious, that still produce powerful effects on us and all those about us. I am what I am in large measure because of the number- less forces that have been impinging on me all these many years. Some