Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

Text from Pages 1 - 64 of the 1930 volume:

inornas uattt u ________Quincy. Northeastern University DAY DIVISION THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING In co-operation with engineering firms, offers five year curriculums leading to the Bachelor of Science degree in the following branches of engineering: Civil Engineering Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering Chemical Engineering Industrial Engineering THE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Co-operating with business firms, offers five year collegiate courses leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in the following fields of business. Accounting Banking and Finance Business Management The Co-operative Plan of training combines theory with practice. It en- ables the student to earn his tuition and a part of his other school expenses. EVENING DIVISION ( COEDUCATIONAL) An effective university education is available in the evening for high school graduates who cannot enter dayl colleges for financial or other reasons but must go to work following graduation : In Business—School of Commerce and Finance Grants B.B.A. and M.B.A. degrees. Specializes in accounting, and business administration. Only 24.9% of graduates held executive po- sitions on entering school; 71.9% now in major executive positions. Graduates outstandingly successful in C. P. A. examinations. Faculty of experienced and well trained busi- ness men. Actual business problem the basis of in- struction. In Law—School of Law Four-year course. LL.B. degree. Prepares for bar examinations and practice. Case method of instruction similar to that in best day law schools. A school of high standards adapted to the needs of employed men and women. Alumni outstandingly successful as lawyers, judges, business executives. Exceptional faculty of practicing lawyers who are graduates of leading day law schools. Graduates of Quincjl High School admitted without examination Catalogs or further information sent upon request northeastern university BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS W. L. Douglas Shoes for Young Men $5 to $7.50 A Shoe for Comfort Wear $5 to $6 MOORHEAD’S SHOE STORE A Good Place to Buy Good Shoes 1547 Hancock Street Quincy, Mass. IN THE LONG RUN You and your friends will prize the portrait that looks like you—your truest self, free from stage effects and little conceits. It is in this “long run” photography that PURDY success has been won. Portraiture by the camera that one cannot laugh or cry over, in later years. For present pleasure and future pride protect your photographic self by having PURDY make the portraits. PURDY, 160 TREMONT STREET BOSTON, MASS. Official Pno'ographer Q. H. S., Class of Feb., 1930 Special Discount Rates to all students of Q. H. S. TjlT is the hope of the Golden-Rod Staff readers of this magazine will substantially patronize adver- tisers who have so willingly contributed to its support. Buy from merchants who advertise in the Golden-Rod. Burdett College Recommends that young people contemplating a business career finish first their high school course, later entering college or busi- ness school as their fitness or need may require. Burdett College is interested in graduates of the Classical, Scientific, General, and Commercial Courses who are farsighted enough to sec that a high school education supplemented by additional, more highly specialized training is the best preparation for a useful business career. For young men Burdett College offers intensive two-year courses of college grade: Business Administration and Accounting—for young women, Executive Secretarial and Normal Commercial Courses. Also specialized Office Management, Bookkeeping, Stenographic and Finishing Courses for those wishing a business training in shorter time. Distinctive features of Burdett College arc: individual attention— able faculty—exceptional preparation—desirable student asso- ciates. Students attending come from universities, colleges, lead- ing high schools and academies—sixteen men's colleges being rep- resented in the Business Administration Course alone during the present school year. For illustrated catalogue—sent without obligation—address F. H. BURDETT, President 156 STUART STREET BOSTON, MASS. HANCOCK 6300 A BUSINESS SCHOOL of COLLEGIATE GRADE Burdett College, by its training, personal guid- ance, and placement serv- ice, has assisted thou- sands of young men and women to positions of in- fluence—the calls from business employers total- ling 2869 during the past year. New Burdett College Building SUFFOLK LAW SCHOOL Four Year Course - LLB Degree DAY SESSIONS 10 A. M. to 11.30 A. M. 4 P. M. to 5 30 P. M. EVENING SESSIONS 6 P. M. to 7.30 P. M. 7.35 P. M. to 9.05 P. M. Students may attend any division or transfer from one to another National reputation as a Training School for Lawyers Catalogue upon request Gleason L. Archer, LL.D., Dean 20 Derne Street, Boston, Mass. (rear of State House) Telephone Haymarket 0836 For Service call Granite 8300-6739 “Just Right” Cleansers and Dyers, Inc. PRESSING-REPAIRING High grade work at reasonable prices Work called for and delivered Main Office and Plant 300 Washington St. Quincy Store at 1637 Hancock Street Branch in Weymouth Landing IF IT’S FOR THE AUTO WE HAVE IT! LADIES’ and MEN’S FURNISHINGS TRADE MARK Goldie’s Auto Grave Yard CHILDREN’S WEAR The house of a Million Parts” QUALITY—SERVICE SATISFACTION Quincy Savings Bank “A MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK” We serve over thirty-five thousand depositors. Resources over nineteen million dol- lars. Dividends for the past four years were paid at the rate of Quincy Savings Bank “The Largest Bank in Norfolk County’’ WEST QUINCY Tel. Gra. 3814 ESTABLISHED 1845 5 Per Cent Published Quarterly by Pupils of the Quincy High School We Golden Rod APRIL 1930 Volume XLII No.3. QUINCY Massachusetts PRICE —TWENTY-FIVE CENTS Literary Staff June, 1930 February, 1931 Hope Dunning E d itor-in-C h ief F. Burton Whitman A vice Morton Literary Editor Marguerite Hoake Jeanette Miller Nezcs Editor Marv di Bartolomeo Dorothv Barr Alumni Editor Kathleen Hoffertv Alice Magnant Exchange Editor Melvin Thorner David Meanev Athletic Editor Muriel Cox Edith Nye Joke Editor Roland Cooper Dorothy Ayers Art Editor Catherine Erickson Business Staft Wendell Rogers Business Manager Harold Bergstedt Advertising Manager Alfred Pawsey Circulating Manager Rov Leander Assistant Advertising Manager Faculty Advisors Joy L. Xevens Ruth M. Giles Ethel C. Crockett Catherine I. Walsh Leslie C. Millard Entered as second-class matter June 26, 1928, at the post office at Boston. Mass., u nder the Act of March 3, 1879 Literary “Skippy’s” Lament. Nature’s Moods The Future Everybody’s Talking Launching at Fore River Shipyard Woman Haters June The Isle of My Desire Gloomy Grange By Candle Light Why Boys Leave Home The Sparks . The Fog. My First Sweetheart Captain Norton’s Automobile Editorials .... Our School Magazine Be Yourself . Soliciting Rides Golden Rod . The Radio News Alumni Exchange Athletics Jokes Art Contributors Gertrude Borne, June, 1931 Anita Carrera, June, 1930 Catherine Erickson, February, 1931 Fred George, February, 1931 Watson Leitch, June, 1931 Robert Norton, June, 1931 Signe Siitonen, February, 1930 Dorothy M. Ayers Dorothy Anderson . Helen Souden Helene Johnson Helen Peck Dorothy Amblea . William Lord . William Lord Dorothy Squire Edith Donde . Robert Owens Marjorie Mitchell Marjorie Mitchell . Helen Sweetser Hollis Burton Engley 7 7 7 7 8 9 12 12 12 14 15 16 16 16 17 18 18 18 18 19 19 20 25-29 32 44 THE GOLDEN-ROD 7 “SKIPPY’S” LAMENT Dorothy M. Ayers, June, 1930 Fv’ryonc’s always laughin’ at me, They say I’m as funny as funny can be; But I’m not; No, I'm not, I’m just being Me. NATURE’S MOODS Dorothy Anderson, June, 1932 Again the soft and fluffy flakes did fall; They came so very fast they formed a squall. They fell so soft and were a downy white. The earth spread o’er with covering so light. Then suddenly the wind began to blow; It seemed as if it never had blown so. At once the rain in torrents did come down, It washed the streets so clean all through the town. The clouds soon parted, and the sun broke through, And heaven’s own skies shone forth in azure blue. “THE FUTURE” Helen Souden The future looms before me. So great and yet so small; I stand without life’s portals, Outside the future’s hall. My vision tries to enter Its sacred door of gold. But, as they seek, a curtain Falls dimly in soft fold; It covers up the future W ith mists of hope and doubt; The door is open; voices call. Yet still I stand without. I try to leave fate’s hallway With mysteries that it brings. W hen from within the temple A clear bell faintly rings. It summons back my footsteps, Commands my listening ears, Then whispers through the curtain The secret of my years. But yet I do not hear it. For ’tween the bell and me There hangs that silent image, Like floating ghosts set free. They are my former being That comes from out the past, And on the unknown future Grey, veiling shadows cast. EVERYBODY’S TALKING Helene Johnson Good evening, folks of the radio audi- ence! Once more we bring you the pro- gram of Amos ’n’ Andy, but before we meet them tonight, we have something special for you. Tonight, through the courtesy of the station to which you are listening, we will present a longer program. For seme time we have been receiving letters, in the form of bouquets and brick- bats, one might say, but mostly bouquets, I am glad to announce, in regard to these two pals of the air. So this evening I am going to read you a few of these letters, and I trust you will not grow impatient. Some of them are very amusing. Here goes for the first: Dear Mr. Announcer: I cannot allay my ecstasy any longer; I must tell you what I think of your fine broadcasts. Amos ’n’ Andy are, to me, two of the most real people I have heard over the radio for quite a while, especially Amos. He cries and moans around that taxicab office so realistically that I cannot help but feel sorry for him. I can sym- pathize with him, too, at his loss of Ruby Taylor, for his case is similar to mine. My own girl friend has gone home to visit her parents, and, believe me, each minute seems like a year. But I can laugh. Look at the way the boys twist and “murder the King’s Eng- lish.” I don’t see how anyone could help enjoying them. Sincerely yours. Well, folks, how did you like that oner Pretty good, eh: Let’s see, here’s another. Looks like a youngster’s handwriting, and you should see the spelling! But I know you’ll enjoy it. Here it is: 8 THE GOLDEN-ROD Dear Mr. Announcer: Dear Sir, I hope you’ll excuse my writing, ’cause I’m only small, but I got somethin’ to tell you. I listen to Amos ’n’ Andy every night, and they’re swell. But last night I almost cried ’cause I just lost my dog, too, and I can’t find him nowhere, and when that man came to take the dorg away from Amos, I felt sorry for him, Amos I mean, ’cause I no how I felt when I lost my dorg, but I hope I’ll find him but don’t forget to tell those fellows I like ’em awfully and I wouldn’t miss listening to them for nothing. Sincerely yours very truly Joe. There, folks, I knew you’d like it. Ah, but not every letter is like the two you have just heard. Here is one postmarked — well, I can’t read the stamp, but maybe we’ll find out in the letter itself: My Dear Mr. Announcer: I hope you will pardon me if I may seem a bit rude, but I must tell you what I think of your program. It is fairly good, but the way in which the characters talk is atrocious. Shocking! Why must they talk that way: I am a teacher of English in the High School here, and I must say that my classes are becoming simply dreadful. Why, with everyone saying, “Uh, oh, Ah’s regusted!” it’s enough to drive one crazy. Can’t some- thing be done to change the vocabulary of those two men: I am sure it is having a lasting destructive effect on the language of the boys and girls of this High School. ery truly yours, I can’t say as I blame this lady much, folks, but you know the old saying, “A little humor now and then is relished by the best of men.” But so much for the letters, folks. Tonight we have a surprise in store for you. Ah! I can see you all sitting for- ward in your chairs and pricking up your ears. Well you may, for let me tell you, folks, this is some surprise. Ruby Taylor has returned from Chi- cago and of course the boys, plus Madam Queen, Kingficsh, and the Battle Axe, are planning a party in her honor. We find the boys in the taxicab office now, talking it all over. Here they are! LAUNCHING AT FORE RIVER SHIPYARD Helen Peak, February, 1932 The principles of getting a vessel into the water haven’t changed since vessels were first launched, but science has so regulated and improved upon these prin- ciples that the element of chance is reduced to a minimum. The launching of a modern ship is so prepared that the builders can tell pre- cisely how she is going to act. If she was built with an inclination of eleven-six- teenths of an inch to the foot, the launch- ing ways are given the same inclination. If the weight of the vessel is about 2,500 tons, the pressure upon the ways is about three tons to the square foot. A minia- ture launching is held the day before, making sure of the true figures. If the test launching proves a success, you may be sure the real launching will be. At noon all work in the yards is sus- pended. and only the employees getting the ship into the water are busy. Usually at 2.30, the christening party ascends a stand built at the vessel’s bow. Friends of the ship’s owner and officers of the shipbuilding company comprise the party. During the next fifteen minutes the workmen loosen the stays with their mal- lets. First there is a quiver, then a more violent tremor, and the space between the hull and the stand becomes a noticeable gap. The workmen scuttle from under the ship. Just as the bottle of champagne is smashed across the bow, with a dignified motion and an irresistible momentum the boat sweeps on its way. Longfellow de- scribes this dramatic instant: “And see; she stirs! She starts.—she moves.—she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel. And. spurning with her foot the ground. With one exulting, joyous bound She leaps into the ocean’s joyous arms!” THE GOLDEN-ROD 9 She swims steadily outward, driving before her a tidal wave which breaks on the Downer Landing shore, and beaches all the small boats there. Then the huge anchors arc dropped. What a lovely sight she is, a ship majestically floating, fes- tooned from bow to stern with brightly colored pennants and flags, a credit to the city in which she was designed, con- structed, and launched. Many well-known ships, including the seven-masted schooner Thomas W. Law- son, the airship carrier Lexington, and the cruiser Northampton, have been launched here. Quincy is indeed proud of her important industry. WOMAN HATERS Dorothy Ambler, June, 1930 ‘‘Drive all worn n from our door. For wc arc the 'shun them four,” To a party wc go stag— And a femme we never drag! Rah! Rah! Rah! The Woman Haters’ Club!” The four members of the aforemen- tioned club chanted their little ditty as they strode down the campus walk, arm in arm. The fame of their club had travelled far, and today—the first day of the Cam- pus Carnival—nearly every girl who was fortunate enough to have been invited was looking forward to meet the four Woman Haters of Redwood College. As the boys approached the dormitory, a hail greeted them. “Well, and where are the ‘prides of our fair college’ going?” Bruce Beldon, the tall, dark-haired football captain, salaamed deeply. “To the dining hall, my dear Charlie. We crave food.” “And plenty of it!” chimed in Bobby Galbraith, the chubby, blonde hockey star. “And how!” Ken Waring exclaimed, smiling in anticipation. “You bet!” Bill Travers added. “And where might the Honorable Charles be going?” “To meet my fair cousin, sir. I sup- pose there’s no use in trying to persuade you kind gentlemen to give one dance each to the lady, is there? You see,” he went on, seriously, “she’s a sub-deb. and has just finished ‘prep’ school. I thought you four might help me out. She’s been looking forward eagerly to the Prom, and I don’t want her to be disappointed. Will you help out?” The four Woman Haters looked at each other in surprise, then all glanced simul- taneously at their chum, Charles Kent. “Aw—Charlie,” Bruce began, “you know we haven’t any use for girls.” “But just this once, gang. She’s a peach, really! Awfully good-looking! I’ll give you my word for that.” Bruce frowned. “Nothing doing,” he answered solemn- ly. “We’re not having anything to do with any woman—pretty or otherwise!” “Don’t be a chump, Bruce. Gee! I’d do it for you—any time.” Bobby frowned. “Aw! I don’t see why girls have to come here, anyway. This is a man’s col- lege, not a finishing school for young ladies!” “She’ll only be here four days, and you won’t have to meet her till Saturday night. Aw—come on, gang!” Ken puckered his tan forehead. After all, Charlie was their fraternity brother. They owed something to him. “If we should do this—kindly notice the ‘if?—if we do, will you solemnly promise that you won’t shove her on us for the rest of the night?” Charlie breathed relievedly. “Sure, I’ll promise. Gee, you’re good scouts! I can take her to the teas and dinners, but I can’t dance with her all night. It wouldn’t be right.” “No,” Bobby admitted, “it wouldn’t.” As Charlie nodded and, smiling cheer- fully, continued on his way, Bill turned excitedly towards Ken. “Now—look what you’ve got us into! You poor, soft-hearted boob!” This last in accents of withering scorn. 10 THE GOLDEN-ROD Ken nodded, mutely, then brightened. “Well, fellows,” he replied, “it will only be for one night. Not till Saturday, and this is only Wednesday. A lot can hap- pen in four days.” He was right. A lot can happen in four days. II A sudden hush fell over the room as the “Shun-them-four” entered the tea room. Pretty girls nodded at each other, as they realized that here, before them, were the famous four woman haters of Red- wood College. The four fellows, as if ignorant of the quickened heart-beats their coming caused among the feminine occupants, crossed the floor four abreast, and came to a halt at the table where tea was being served. “Aren’t they wonderful!” one girl gasped, and instantly all eyes were focused on her. She blushed and en- deavored to hide her discomfiture. The four, however, seemed deaf to the remark. Then, a voice behind them: “Fellows, just a minute.” They turned around and confronted Charlie. With him was a very attractive Miss, with curly golden hair and large blue eyes. “This is my cousin. Miss Star. Diane, meet the four Shylocks. They stay shy of golden locks as well as other feminine tresses. The four club members bowed grave1}' and whispered a suitable rejoinder. Ken was devoutly praying that she wasn’t one of those girls who haltingly lisp baby-talk. P ruce sincerely hoped she wasn’t one of those gushing women he’d read so much about. Bobby hoped she didn’t have a squeaky voice. Bill was silently praying, but he didn’t know why. Then she spoke, in a soft, musical voice. “How do you dor” Four sighs of relief were heaved in unison. Four faces were wreathed in smiles. They chatted merrily for a few min- utes. Then Bruce recalled an important engagement. “I’m sorry, Miss Star, but I’m afraid I’ll have to leave. I’d be thrilled, how- ever, if you’ll play a set of tennis with me this afternoon. Could you?” The girl hesitated, glancing at Charlie. Charlie returned the glance without a flicker of his evelids. “I’ll be delighted, Mr. Beldon.” “It’s a go, then. At four.” Ken bowed gravely, and announced his immediate departure. “How about a swim, Miss Star? In the outdoor pool at seven?” “Thank you. Mr. Waring. I’ll love it.” “And could you have dinner with me at eight?” Diane smiled at Bobby. “Yes,” she replied, her eves dancing, “I could.” “And how about a walk with me at nine?” Bill urged. “I’ll be thrilled!” she promised. Outside, the four woman haters looked at each other. “A knockout!” Bruce exclaimed. And the other three agreed. Ill “Congratulations, Miss Star, you’re a fine player.” “No. Mr. Beldon, I’m not at all. But you are a good sport. Letting me win—” Bruce flushed. “Now. Miss Star, I didn’t let you win. You simply outplayed me.” Diane smiled, knowingly. “Anyway, Mr. Beldon, I like you very much. And you are a skilled tennis player.” He smiled at the small, upturned face, and the slim arms swinging the racquet. “I wish you’d call me—Bruce,” he ven- tured. daringly. The blue eyes smiled at him. “Oh, how did you know that I wanted to?” she cried. “I love the name Bruce, don’t you?” Bruce kicked at a small pebble. THE GOLDEN-ROD 11 “I never did—before ’ he whispered: “but when you say it, Diane, it sounds diderent, homehow!” “Does it, Bruce?” and the golden head was bent. Her voice seemed vibrant with emotion, though Bruce couldn’t see the twinkle in her eyes. “I’m glad, Bruce, so glad.” IV “Gosh, Diane, you’re a nifty swimmer. I never thought a girl could swim so well.” His tone implied that he hadn’t thought girls could do anything. Ken and Diane splashed with their feet as they sat on the edge of the pool. “You swim well, too, Ken,” Diane whispered. ‘ D' you real v think so?” Ken asked, eagerly. “I certainly do, Ken, and do you know, I think there’s something awfully patri- cian about you.” “Really?” “Yes, really,” and Ken felt an absurd desire to kiss that golden hair, glistening in the sunlight. V “Mn! That was delicious, Mr. Gal- braith.” Bobby’ smiled across at the golden- haired girl. “Let’s forget the conventions and use Christian names.” “Let’s, Bobby. How’s that?” “Great, Diane. You know, I think Diane is a beautiful name. Diane Star,” he mused. “The name was made for you.” “I’m glad you like it,” she whispered, huskily, as she bent her head. “I like you, too.” It was spoken softly, earnestly, and the girl’s fair skin was tinged with pink. “Oh, I’m so glad, for, you see, I like you, too.” VI “I’m falling in love with someone, some one girl—” “Oh. Mr. Travers, I didn’t know you could sing like that. You sing wonder- fully.” “I don’t—usually—but, you see, I have an inspiration now.” “Oh!” “Yes, you see, I’ve hitched my wagon to a star, and a golden star at that.” The girl hung her golden head. “You know, sometimes it’s dangerous to hitch your wagon to a star.” “Why?” “Sometimes another wagon’s hitched there first.” Bill frowned. “You know, you’re pretty, Diane.” “So I’ve been told.” “I like you.” “And I like you.” “Oh, gee!” Brown eyes smiled at blue. VII “I tell you, Charlie, you have to!” “Sure you do, Charlie. Gee! it’s not fair to give a fellow only one dance.” “Gosh, no! Aw, come on, Charlie, be a sport!” “I tell you, boys, it’s impossible!” ex- claimed Charlie. “All her dances are taken.” “Aw! yesterday you said—” “That was yesterday,” Charlie replied, significantly. “The fellows hadn’t seen her then. I gave you fellows first chance, and you had to be coaxed to take even one dance. Now you’re left, and who’s to blame?” “You are!” retorted four voices. “Well, of all the nerve!” “You certainly are!” Bruce cried. “If you’d showed us her picture, or told us about her, or—” “Well, I’ll be jiggered!” Then, to the four irate boys’ surprise, Charlie sat down and rocked with laughter. 12 THE GOLDEN-ROD VIII It was the night of the Prom. The gym had been transformed into a verit- able fairyland. The running track above it presented a startling picture, with its soft silk draperies and glowing lanterns. A mysterious delightfulness surrounded the gym. The four boys had each received his appointed dance, and were, at present, glaring at Diane’s partner, who was proudly whirling her around the room. “Geei?‘ Ken said, “I wish they’d let a fellow cut in!” “Huh!” Bobby snorted. “What do you think this is—the Class Rush:” “The next is the final dance, isn’t it, Bruce:” “Yes, and she’s dancing it with Char- lie.” The lights were lowered as the orches- tra began the final waltz. Four boys, flattened against the wall, were immersed in their thoughts. At last the lights went up. “Gee!” Bill cried. “Here she comes, with Charlie!” The four boys smiled. Diane smiled back. “We’ve decided, Charlie and I,” she said, shyly, “that you’re just the ones for ushers.” “Ushers for what:” Bruce asked. “Why, for our wedding. Charlie and I are engaged. We’re going to be mar- ried in June.” The four boys stared, stupefied. Their faces paled perceptibly. Four tanned foreheads were puckered, frowningly. Then, slowly, their faces changed color. Hushing painfully, they looked first at each other, then at the smiling boy and girl before them. Bruce started to speak, gulped, stam- mered and stopped. Ken recovered first. “Why didn’t you tell us, Charlie? Shouldn’t have secrets in the ‘frat,’ you know. Anyway, I suppose congratula- tions are in order.” “It—it just happened,” the bride-to-be whispered, as she bent her golden head. IX Four boys came down the campus, arm in arm. Happily, they chanted their ditty: “Drive all women from our door, For we are ihe 'shun them four,’ To a party we go stag— And a femme we never drag. Rah! Rah! Rah! The Woman Haters’ Club!” And the four clasped hands. JUNE William Lord, June. 1932 Cat birds in the thickets, Robins in the trees; All the flowers nodding, Shiv’ring in the breeze; Loads of bees are hustling, Winging to and fro, Gathering up sweet honey From bright meadows as they go; Birds arc singing everywhere. Summer’s at its crest, Trees arc at their greenest, Nature’s at her best. THE ISLE OF MY DESIRE William Lord, June, 1932 'Hiere is magic in the moonlight On that palm-fringed silver shore, Where the waves are rolling, ever onward, To break and crash and roar; There are rainbows in the spray that’s flung From the jagged coral reef. And the perfumes, fruits, and birds of jungle Nowhere else one-half so sweet. The surface of its vast lagoon Is of brightest burnished gold. And underneath its glimmer There is scattered wealth untold; So, is it any wonder That I long to hear the thunder Of the curling, crested breakers On that far-off southern shore? GLOOMY GRANGE Dorothy Squire, June, 1930 On the Heyton Road, set well back near the cemetery, there still stands the THE GOLDEN-ROD 13 red brick house which, when my story begins, was rightfully nicknamed, “Gloomy Grange.” One sweltering Sunday afternoon, in- side that house, a careworn woman was drowsily rocking herself. She started, and half rose as Bessie, the housemaid, tapped and then entered. The interruption brought an annoyed frown to her face. “Well:” she asked curtly. “Visitor, ma’am. Lady from the church, I think, ma’am.” “Tell her I can’t see her, and for pity’s sake, leave me alone.” “Yes, ma’am.” “And Bessie!” “Y’es, ma’am:” “Tell them all that. There’ll be more here before lunch-time.” “Aw right, ma’am.” With the frown still there, the woman began to think over the events of the day. That morning she had driven to the vil- lage church in her old-fashioned carriage, as she had done as regularly as a clock for the past forty years. There was nothing unusual in that. She had walked slowly through the church yard, as was her custom, and there she had found not a blade of grass out of place. No, there was nothing unusual in the church yard. Then she had entered the church as rev- erently as usual, and turned to enter the corner pew that had been marked “Mon- roe” for several decades. But suddenly she had rigidly drawn herself up, and gazed with blazing eyes into the mutely appealing eyes of two urchins ensconced in her seat. Although they cowed under this look, it was evident that they were expecting someone or something. Brist- ling with indignation and oblivious of the amazed congregation, she had swept out of the church, to her maid’s perplexity. Speechless, she had driven home and, since, she had seen and spoken to no one but Bessie. Now, she ruminated thus: “Maybe I should have seen it out to save the gossip. ... But the nerve of anyone daring to sit in my pew, which has been in the Monroe family since before I was born. And when I always pay my pew rent so regularly! What on earth was Gibbons thinking of to let that kind of children in, anyway?” And the woman rocked the chair viciously, with anger, till the dog at her feet howled in sympathy with the chair’s creaks. She stooped and picked up the dog, stroking it caressingly. Molly Monroe was a strange mixture. All human love and gentleness had gone out of her life ten years ago, when the idol of her life, her only son, Robert, had run away with the village belle, a “coarse hussy,” as Molly thought. Since then she had gradually grown more embit- tered to the world, secretly bestowing worlds cf affection on this dog, who was a descendant of Ruff, the only personal possession left by Robert in his hasty departure. In her fifties, Molly Monroe was a prematurely old woman. No one understood her except the housemaid, Bessie, who valued her position too highly to show outward sympathy, although she deeply loved and pitied her mistress. Sam Monroe had deserted his wife only six months after Robert’s birth, and she had grieved sorely. Now she forced her- self to conquer love, and never showed anyone a trace of kindly feeling. Somebody tapped, and Molly guiltily dropped the dog as Bessie entered again. “Well, what’s up now? Did’nt I tell you to leave me alone?” “Beg pardon, ma’am,” pleaded Bessie, “but there is two of the beautifullest chil- dren at the door, and they have a letter for you, ma’am, all prop’ly addressed, and beg pardon, ma’am, but I asked them to step in, and—” “You what?” shrilled Molly, whose face had been purpling during this speech. She thought in exclamation points. “Two children! in the Monroe house!—in it!—and Bessie of all people! What next? Bessie,” she cried when she had recovered speech, “Turn them out, this minute!” 14 THE GOLDEN-ROD “But, ma’am,” remonstrated the maid calmly, “here is their letter, and they say their name’s M—” “I don’t care what their name is, and throw that letter in the fire, and leave me alone!” screeched the irate woman. Bessie quietly left, and a minute later a distant door banged loudly. Left alone with her thoughts, Molly- settled herself in her chair. Anyway, what could two children want with her? When her fit of anger had passed, she was somewhat curious. She knew so little about children. Many tender mem- ories of her own son’s childhood rushed through her brain, but she avoided them. Painfully, drowsily, she rocked herself. . . . How hot it was! . . . How could peo- ple bustle so? Subconsciously, she could hear a wordy battle raging in the kitchen . . . and cries of children . . . and motors passing . . . How hot it was! . . . Ah! . . . She knew no more till— “Oh, p’itty lady, p’case wake up. P’itty lady, are you died like my papa and my mama? My mama say she goin’ to heaven. P’itty lady, don’t go dead. You go heaven, too, p’aps.” The roundest and bluest of baby eyes were gazing be- seechingly into hers. Children! Dimly she thought she was doomed to see children today. “You tell, Sylvia,” urged the boy and, nothing loath, the child began and told their pitiful story in a sweet, babyish voice. “Well, my p’itty mama and my papa went dead with a nasty sickness.” “Fever,” put in the boy. “Yeth, feber,” nodded Sylvia knowing- ly, “an’ my papa hadn’t got any penny any more, an’ our house was all horrid, an’ we had nothin’ for breakfus’, or for dinner, or for tea. An’ my papa say, ‘Sylbia, your papa hasn’t got any penny anv more, but I give some moneys to Bob an’ you go Likkle Heyton, an’ you go Granny’s church an’ Granny see you, an’ give you home, an’ you be happy.’ That’s what my papa say ’fore he went dead. An’ he gived Bob letter for you, to ’splain us. An’ we hab come, an’ we are happy, aren’t we, Bob?” Then it was Bessie who took up the story. They had been to the church, and then there had followed that unfortunate scene. They had come tearfully to the house, and when the unfeeling mistress refused them entrance, the kind-hearted maid heard their tale and took them into her own room, hoping for a chance of reconciliation; she had sent the children into the room while Molly was asleep. She had saved the letter which Molly had ordered her to burn, and now she pro- duced it. For the second time that day, poor Molly had received a shock. From the child’s disconnected story she had gath- ered that they were her son’s children, and in the letter it was unquestionably proved: her own son had recently died of fever in a squalid London tenement house. The children implicitly believed that her home was open to them. When the story was perfectly e’ear, Molly’s wall of reserve had fallen, her heart had melted, and the children had crept into it. On the Heyton Road, set well back, there still stands a red brick house, which is no longer rightfully named “Gloomy Grange,” for now there echo the merry voices and dancing feet of light-hearted children. BY CANDLE LIGHT Editii Donde, June, 1930 We was settin’ round the table watchin’ the candle light, hew it played on Grand- ma’s wrinkled check and made a halo round her silvery hair—makes her look sorta ethereal, like the pictures o’ the angels in the hymn book. We all feel kinda quiet-like and sombre a-settin’ in the candle light. Seems ’most as if ’twas church, we all settin’ sorta reverent a-watchin’ the flickerin’ light. Don’tcha sorta like the candle light when all the THE GOLDEN-ROD 15 plates are cleared away, an’ all your chores arc done? It’s then I seems to see my faults and wish that I had followed the “Golden Rule” and minded my mom ’n’ pop. And do ya know, I even wisht I hadn’t stolen the apples from outer Deacon Crabtree’s orchard on that night so long ago, though he was so downright mean. Ef I had been settin’ in the candle light all the time, I'd never have sassed my mom V pop or left my chores undone. Bet I’d have been the model that they were al- ways talkin’ about. Ef I had been as good as that, mom would think I’d ketched somethin,’ an’ gimme a dose o’ sulphur an’ put me to bed. Jest the same, I like to be a-settin’ in the candle light a-watchin’ the shaders play round the kitchen an’ makin’ a hale aro n’ Grandma’s silv’ry hair. WHY BOYS LEAVE HOME Robert Owens, February, 1931 On the first warm, sunny day of the year the natural tendency of youths with nothing to do and all day to do it in is to go somewhere beyond their usual haunts. Accordingly, three of the repre- sentatives of the rising generation adorn- ing the doorway of the Quincy Y.M.C.A., decided to solicit rides, as the Master of Youthful Destinies at Quincy High calls the well-known practice of “bumming” rides. The first car carried the three to Weymouth, where they were picked up by a constable from Cape Cod, homeward bound after carrying a prisoner from his native heath to the Charlestown Prison, and who was therefore not particular as to whom he rode with. Learning that their host was going all the way to Hyannis, the travelers decided that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to spend the night at the Quincy “Y” camp in Sandwich. They stopped at the village of Sand- wich to buy food out of their combined finances, which amounted to a dollar and sixty-two cents. The camp was found after tramping seven miles over muddy roads through now pitch-dark woods. The wayfarers decided not to go right in, however, since there were three dogs in front, apparently very large and fierce, and all protesting loudly and determin- edly at the approach of strangers. The boys stopped, but the dogs didn’t, so the former went hastily up the nearest tree, supplies and all. After a time, some un- known personage called off the reception committee, and the uninvited guests clambered down the tree and through an unlocked window of the deserted house. There is something about a very dark, large, empty and unknown place that off- sets the usual nonchalance of anyone who enters it with only matches for light. Thus it was very close together that the three prowled around the whole house, explor- ing every nook and corner for things that might come in handy during the coming long night. Among the things found were lamps, firewood, old mattresses and a blanket, dishes, baseball bats, a hunting knife and an axe: the last three objects were to be used in case the place was stormed in the middle of the night by bandits, bootleg- gers, cutthroats, or demons. After the whole place had been looked over, our heroes prepared and ate their supper, which consisted of beans, bread, pineapple, and oranges. The night, one of the longest nights on record, was spent in lying, but not sleep- ing, on mattresses spread out in front of the fireplace, with one small blanket, a burlap curtain, and one another for cover- ings. In the middle of the night the fire went out so the three, all being wide-awake and cold, got up, built a new fire, and played football. While the fire was still burning brightly, they sought the covers again and remained under them until morning. The wanderers rose at the crack of dawn and ate the remaining food, after which they cleaned up the place where they had slept and eaten. About seven- 16 THE GOLDEN-ROD thirty, they tipped all the bell-hops, paid their bill, and hit the trail for home. The fates smiled on them on the return trip and, in two hops, they reached the starting point, none the worse for wear. Although sleep and the comforts of home were conspicuous by their absence, the expedition was unanimously declared a success by all concerned. THE SPARKS Marjorie Mitchell, February, 1933 Embers in the tire’s heat; Ashes all surround them; Logs are added to the coals; New life starts around them. From the embers fly the sparks, Singing, dancing, see them run! Here's a large one, there’s a small, Laughing, prancing, having fun. Here's a leader and his men Marching out to battle: Here's a farmer and his sheep; There's a flock of cattle. Here's a dancer, twinkling toes; There's a staid school-master; L'p the chimney do they fly Faster, faster, fast r. Tho’ the sparks have passed away. Yet the fire is not dead: For now we see. against the smoke. The coals, still glowing red. THE FOG Marjorie Mitchell. February, 1933 Sinking slowly from the sky. It spreads on boatman’s sail, Settling softly on the sea Like a misty veil. Here the veil is liftin ' fast. Moving from the sand: See the sun shine forth once more. Brightening the land. MY FIRST SWEETHEART Helen Sweetser, June, 1930 One day as I sat on my grandfather’s knee listening to one of his many stories, he noticed that I was not giving him my usual, rapt attention. ‘‘What is the matter with my little girl?” he asked. “Nothing, grandpa,” I answered. “Yes, there is. Now don’t try to fool an old fool, because you can’t. Come now, what is it?” W ell,” I said, gazing at the buttons on his coat, “I wish I had a sweetheart like Barbara’s, one who would send me flowers and candy.” About a week later came Valentine’s Day bringing Barbara a lovely bouquet of violets. Of course, I admired them tre- mendously, wishing all the time that I had been the fortunate one. I was so absorbed in thinking about myself and wishing that I was eighteen instead of eight, that I sat in the living room fully five minutes before I noticed a large, red, heart-shaped box cn the table. W hen I saw it, I rushed to the table and found on a card—“To my sweetheart, Helen, from one who loves her.” How thrilled I was! I took the box and hurried to Barbara. I was so excited that I nearly spilled the contents on the floor while showing it to her. “Isn’t it lovely, Barbara?” I gasped, watching her intently to see if she thought so. “Who do you think sent it?” “Yes, dear, it is lovely. I haven’t the faintest idea who sent it, but who ever did surely had good taste.” “Many times after that I was the happy receiver of gifts. But best of all was at Easter, for on that day I received a beautiful bouquet of sweet-peas, which I wore to church, as I knew Barbara would wear flowers also. For two years I was never forgotten when it came to flowers and candy on such special occasions but then — I was forgotten — Grandfather died, you see. THE GOLDEN-ROD 17 CAPTAIN NORTON’S AUTOMOBILE Hollis Burton Engley, June, 1930 Note:—The steering gear of a sailing vessel is so arranged that when the wheel is turned in one direction the vessel moves in the other. (Apologies to the true characters.) Some years ago on Martha’s Isle, when auto cars were few, Old Captain Norton had a car rigged up in manner new. Since he had not quite yet got used to driving on the shore, The steering gear embarrassed him yet ever more and more. “By Godfrey’s Mighty!” swore old Jed, one sunny day in June, I'll have the wheel fixed on this craft by Sat’d’y afternoon! When I steer port the consarn tub (unlike my boat May Psasr). To starboard shifts and leaves me sittin’ shakin’ in the breeze.” So on that morn, the fault repaired, the Captain sallied forth. The skies were blue, the waters, too, south, east, and west, and north. From Tisbury to Middletown, from there to Ed- gar town, In blissful peace he travelled ’round, up island and then down. “Ho. ho!” laughed Jed, in spirits high, “at last this craft does steer As sensible as my own sloop I sailed for many a year. No longer on the village roads must I so fearfully creep, When port 1 steer, to port I go, as I did on the deep.” One night some low off-Islander who wished to sec the land Without expense to his own self, Jed’s car did take in hand. Before his house the auto stood, all quietly it started. Down Beach Street rolled the stolen car; past houses dark it darted. W hen half-way down the low incline the engine started running. At Water Street it had perked up and splendidly was humming. Here was the wheel turned to the right—toward Eastville it was steering; The car, of course, up Water Street toward Union went careering. The thief was quite hard put to it to understand its action, But Union Street was reached—in time, a second and a fraction. So up this street he quickly turned, and down it went like sin! Right to the wharf where lights still shone, the ticket-house within. The squealing brakes brought out to view the con- stable and, too. The wharfinger, who knew right well the car of shining blue. So ofT was marched the rueful thief, who better could have done Than old Jed’s car with steering odd, to steal and try to run! 18 THE GOLDEN-ROD OUR SCHOOL MAGAZINE For years our school magazine came out with the same standardized cover, effective enough, good looking, but not really our own. Now what a difference! Flow pleasing to see it dressed in designs of our own creating. Each edition is to have a different cover design, drawn by our art pupils, who are busy much of the time, planning and drawing to this end. Finally, the drawing is sent to the Man- ual Arts department to be fitted on to a block. A great deal of credit goes to this department—for much accuracy and care- ful cutting are needed to insure an effectual cut. In designing and produc- ing our own cover, we also economize, besides bringing to our magazine an originality and individuality it has never before enjoyed. We feel proud of our school publica- tion in its original dress, and know we have taken one step more toward the goal of its perfection. H. R. D. BE YOURSELF Do you follow the crowd just as Merlin did the gleam: Or do you go your own way? In other words, are you yourself or a counterpart of Tom, Dick or Harry? Be an individual, not a type. You won- der why some people stand out from the crowd. The reason: they are different from the mass which surrounds them. They have individuality. Don’t you know a girl who goes to the football games because it’s the thing to do, because everyone does it? She can’t tell a touchdown from a referee. But, of course, to cheer at a football game is the thing to do. Don’t blur your outstanding character- istics. As a successful novelist of today must make his .characters vivid and indi- vidual, you must make yourself vivid and individual. Develop your capacities. If you have talent in any direction, foster it until it becomes something that will make you different from the rest. By talent we do not necessarily mean a talent for music, writing, or drawing, but a talent to do the every day things and do them well, a talent to make other people glad, to understand and invite their confidence, a talent to do the simple, homely things that count. Be yourself! Develop your talents. Then you will be someone a little differ- ent from your neighbor—an individual. Edith Donde, June, 1930. SOLICITING RIDES The matter of hitch-hiking by high school girls and boys to and from school has just about reached a crisis. Recently Mr. Collins told us, in the auditorium, that the school committee had taken up the matter of thumbing rides, better known as “bumming.” He warned us that if we were caught participating in THE GOLDEN-ROD 19 this form of transportation after school, we should be liable to a punishment of detention for about two hours in either his or Mr. Wilson’s office. This threat was taken quite as a joke, for that very afternoon the same crowd of boys were at their customary positions. Hitch-hiking is really a sport, from which many have derived a great deal of adven- ture. During two days of our February vacation, with two friends, I made a thorough tour of Cape Cod. By means of nineteen auto rides we covered over 220 miles. The snow drifts on the Cape ranged from six to ten feet deep, and it sure was a surprise to learn that the damage we saw of a Harwichport church was caused by lightning during a heavy- thunderstorm less than a week previous. It almost seems that sometimes school rules are made to be taken lightly by some, but now it is different. Police Chief Bishop recently asserted that the Police Department would do all it could to stop the “thumbing” practiced on the part of the school pupils. He calls to our attention that Quincy’s revised traffic ordinances contain a provision which makes it unlawful for any person to so- licit a ride in this city. Surely anyone would much rather patronize the trolley at five cents a ride than break the law and possibly come in contact with our speedy friend, “Two Gun.” F. B. W. GOLDEN ROD We believe we all, at one time or an- other, must have thought, “Where in the world did we acquire the name, The Golden Rod;” So, to relieve your and our curiosity, we went in search of evi- dence, and found it. This information we received from the March, 1913 issue of the Golden Rod: “The first Golden Rods, issued from 1896, were just papers, and tissue, not being over six by nine inches. The cover of each contained the name, Golden- Rod, with a spray of the same flowers. The color of the cover changed from month to month. Further down was the motto, Encouragement, but later the cover was changed and a picture of the old High School inserted. “These issues being the first attempt of the pupils to edit a paper, the name, Our Venture, was suggested. But though this told a little story in itself, the name of our national flower was unanimously chosen. The following words, which ex- plains the whole reason, we quote from Miss Reed: “ ‘As we have previously mentioned, the name is emblematic of encourage- ment, so when we are weary and dis- couraged, when we are about to despair of accomplishing our task, we may take heart once more as we think of our Golden Rod ” H. D. THE RADIO Just recently a new privilege has been granted to the pupils of Quincy High School. A Victrola radio has been in- stalled on the stage of the auditorium. Every day during lunch period, except Tuesdays and Thursdays, when there arc classes in the hall, we may go to the hall and hear the program over the radio. This, we think, has been a very great privilege and a very enjoyable one be- sides. The cafeteria at lunch time is crowded and noisy, and we are glad, if possible, to get away from it. Now since we have music to hear, we all crowd the Assembly hall as soon as we are through our lunch. We have all realized what a problem the cafeteria has been, especially since we have had such an overflow of pupils in the school. The pupils have enjoyed these pro- grams thoroughly and we consider the success of this venture is due to the work of the Student Council. If we all co- operate, it will continue to be a success, both by relieving a congested cafeteria and giving a good amount of joy to our- selves. H. D. 20 THE GOLDEN-ROD ASSEMBLIES January 3, 1930—The student body met for an athletic assembly held for the purpose of awarding well earned letters, and to boost the coming basketball sea- son. William H. “Doc” Whiting, awarded the 55 letters and 12 blue and white sweaters to deserving athletes. Capt. “Bob” Mattson of the basketball team, Basketball Coach George S. Clark, and Charles Gabriel, an alumnus and former basketball star of Quincy High, addressed the assembly. Head Cheer Leader “Joe” Minegan led several snappy cheers, and the band added extra pep to the rally by its lively selections. Those who received letters were: Soccer—Captain Robert Muir, John Millar, William Jenson, Gerald Desmond, John Brown, John Me- Gibbon, Fred Bonner, Gerald Pitts, Harold Pimmental, Alex Mitchelson, Carl Jehson, and Manager William Thompson. Although soccer will remain a minor sport, these boys received the regular major sport eight-inch block Q’s for their admirable performances. Football—Captain Lawrence Christen- sen, Manager Aaron Redcoy, Henry Fisher, Michael Kurtis, Andrew Lund, Bradford Rougvie, Chester Young, Wil- liam Haloran, Willard Bailey, William Sullivan, James McKenna, Nathan Kup- erman, Abe Cohen, Eugene Nattie, Arthur Olinto, Scalo Gehardi, Kenneth Cahoon, and Theodore Olsen. Class Football Champions — Nathan Edwards, John Smith, Charles Ganzel, Joseph Lucier, John Franklin, George McMann, John Iovannia, James Foley, Gordon Donnon, John Morris, John Bradley, Donald McMulkan, William Walder, Roy Leander, Robert Gentry, and Walter Bassett. Cross Country—Captain Kermit Kim- ball, Vincent Morgan, Frank Bonomi, Stephen Follett, James Mulhall, William Southworth, and Joseph Lepplar. Tennis Champions — Captain Sadie Flieshman, Mary McCarthy, Evelyn Christie, Alma Burgess, Hazel Berry, Jean Turnbull, Beatrice Irwin, and Ruth Kcss. Field Hockey—Captain Adelaide Chap- man, Dorothy Sharkey, Alma Reeves, Dorothy Smith, Geraldine Batcheldcr, Dorothy Bedford, Christine Messenger, Edna Pelto, Helen Poland, Ruth Wyand, Helen Evans, Isabel Emslie, Patricia Craig, Ruth Murphy, and Muriel Hannah. January 8—All students of French assembled to take a picture tour through France with Professor Raymond Talbot, formerly of the French Dept, of Boston University, who spoke on French Literary Backgrounds. Professor Talbot, the author of several textbooks and readers, which are used in many high schools, one of which is used by French teachers of our school, was introduced by Miss Victoria Zeller, head of the Modern Language Department, who arranged the program. Professor Talbot started his talk with a general description of the French island of Corsica, and then continued to THE GOLDEN-ROD 21 Southern France and the scene of Daudet’s stories, furthering his tour to Northeastern France, the birthplace of Jeanne d’Arc. Next, Paris was treated with a brief explanation and a few pictures, and then Briton of the western coast of France. He ended his talk with a story of the region about Mount Blanc. January 8 — About three hundred students from the cooking and business organization classes gathered in the audi- torium to hear a talk on business organ- ization, given by Miss Julia Leamy, former head of the school cafeteria, who is now manager of a restaurant in Quincy Square. January 23—The music appreciation and harmony pupils gathered to hear a special Chopin recital, given by Miss Nancy Follett, well known locally for her ability at the piano. The program, arranged by Miss Margaret Tuthill, head of the music department, included Mazurka in A Minor, Waltz in C Sharp Minor, Nocturne in F Major, Marche Funebre Berceuse and Impromptu in A Flat Major. February 24—Starting the school pro- gram after a week’s vacation, an assem- bly was held the first period for the pur- pose of announcing the plans of the Student Advisory Council for improving the cafeteria and traffic problems. After the reading of a passage from the Bible by Mr. Collins, followed by an Amen by members of the Boys’ and Girls’ Glee Clubs, Arthur Olinto, president of the Student Advisory Council, gave an ex- cellent speech, urging us to be more con- siderate of others in the cafeteria. He announced the new senior traffic squad, and asked the students to co-operate with them to make the traffic more orderly. March 5—The girls of the college preparatory and normal school divisions of the Junior and Senior classes had the pleasure of hearing a talk by Miss Pope, dean of the girls of Bridgewater Normal School. Miss Pope was introduced by Miss Katherine Phillips, President of the Quincy Bridgewater Club, which spon- sored this assembly. An explanation of the requirements for entering Bridge- water, a brief account of the activities of the school was delightfully given. After this helpful talk, the girls were invited to speak with Miss Pope individually, if they so desired. “CHIMES OF NORMANDY” Rehearsals for the Chimes of Nor- mandy, to be given by the Glee Clubs late in May, are in full swing now, with two meetings a week for the whole cast, and numerous other rehearsals with groups of principals. SPRING CONCLAVE W ork on the numbers to be played by the band and orchestra at the annual Instrumental Conclave has been going on for several weeks. This year the orches- tra will play “Country Dance,” by Beethoven, the contest number for all orchestras of its class; and “Finandia,” by Sibelius, as its choice piece. The band will play “Song of the Marching Men,” by Hadley, the contest piece for all bands of its class and Dozv?i South, by Ardt, as its choice number. ALL-NEW ENGLAND H. S. ORCHESTRA Several members of the orchestra have received notices the past week of their acceptance as members of the “All New England High School Orchestra.” They are: Herbert Hanson, our concert master; Edith Luftman, Lillian Pierce, Phillip Simmons, Francis Tatro, violins; Dann Wyman, viola; Richard Rice, clarinet; Daniel Keeler, bassoon; Walter Smith, Robert Graham, trumpets; Gilbert Neal, James Laing, horns; Walter Lehto, trom- bone; Stanley Johnson, sousaphone. BOWDOIN MUSICAL CLUB The members of the High School music department, orchestras, glee clubs, band, harmony, and appreciation classes are 22 THE GOLDEN-ROD presenting the Bovvdoin Musical Clubs in a concert and dance on Wednesday, April 2, 1930, at the High School. The pro- ceeds of these college concerts in the past have been used to help defray the ex- penses of the band and orchestra at the Spring Conclave. This year, however, the department is hoping to clear enough to give a scholarship to some one of its members to the band and orchestra sum- mer camp, which is to be held in Maine, probably on one of the Belgrade Lakes. The business manager of this concert and dance is Walter Smith, Jr.; Kenneth Ryder is in charge of publicity, and a sub-committee, consisting of Sam Hussey, Alice Malone, and Stanley Johnson, assisted by Miss Harrison, our dean, is working on plans for the dance. THE STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL A.fter almost six months of ceaseless work, the members of the Student Ad- visory Council distributed on January 30 three hundred copies of the first hand- book issued in the history of the school among the entering sophomores. Copies were later sold to the members of the upper classes. The committee in charge of this successful project was: John Walsh, chairman; John Pinkham, and Dorothy Elliott. Under the leadership of Ruth Koss, the new student council lost and found de- partment is now functioning. She is assisted by Alma Reeves. Arthur Peel, John Walsh, David Kinghorn, and Dorothy Elliott. Room 300 is being used as the department’s headquarters. At the recent meeting. President Arthur Olinto appointed Arthur Peel. Ferror Di Bona. Dorothy Elliott, Geraldine Sulli- van, Alma Reeves, and Aaron Rcdcav to make plans for outdoor activities dur- ing lunch period. SENIOR RECEPTION The class of February, 1930. gathered in the cafeteria, Friday evening. January 17, or their class day exercises which were in the form of a banquet. After the ban- quet. which was served by members of the Big Sister Club and Thalia Club, the class will, written by John Pinkham and John Walsh, was read by Nathan Kuper- man, the class orator. Following this was the presentation of various gifts by the class president, Alph Petersen. He presented to Mr. Collins, for the school, from the class, a picture of the interior of the Rheims Cathedral. Everyone then adjourned to the gym- nasium, which was decorated in rainbow colors, where dancing was enjoyed until twelve o’clock. THE BIG SISTER CLUB Junior High Day, observed each semes- ter by the Big Sister Club, was held on January 20, under the chairmanship of Bernadette McWeeny. The entering Sophomore girls from the four Junior High Schools of Quincy were invited. The first speaker, Abigail Norris, former president of the club welcomed the iris, and then introduced Jean Turnbull, the new president of the club. Miss Har- rison, the club advisor, spoke to the girls. The group was then entertained by Beatrice Irwin, who sang My Bill, and Barbara Coward, who played the St. Louis Blues on the piano. The next se- lection on the program was a solo by Ethel Johnson, Italian Street Song, which ' as followed by a tap dance by Harriet White and Emmeline Patten. Grace Garland then sang two songs. Can’t We Be Friends and S le. Harriet White gave a specialty dance, and Barbara Coward rendered a classical selection upon the piano. Then followed a talk to the sophomores by Mr. Collins. After the entertainment, the members ( f the Big Sister Club showed the sopho- mores about the building. Members and friends gathered in the school library on Thursday evening, THE GOLDEN-ROD 23 February 27, to witness the installation of officers of the Big Sister Club. Those installed were: Preside nt.....___________ -..-Jean Turnbull Vice-President................. Grace Luce Secretary...................... Dorothy Ayres l r‘usurer_____________ -....Eftie Huovincn Executive Committee— Virginia Fair, .Vlary McCarthy, Marie Johnson. Dorothy Barr. Edith Hayden. Dorothy Elliott, and Dorothy Thomas Decorating Committee-------- Jane Glading Refreshment Committee____Geraldine Bums Sick Girl Committee... —.Edith Donde New Girl Committee-------Virginia Cochrane Each officer wore a red carnation. Flowers were presented to Abigail Norris, the retiring president. After the impressive ceremony, Ethel Johnson entertained the group by two soprano solos. She was accompanied on the piano by Barbara Goward. Especially enjoyed was Miss ictoria Zeller’s talk on her trip through Guatemala. Mr. Collins then gave a brief talk, alter which refreshments were served, and an informal gathering enjoyed. A Mixer Party was given on March 17 to the girls of the February, ’33, class by the Big Sister Club. The girls in charge were: Dorothy Elliott and Dorothy Barr. The pantomimes, Young Lochinvar, read by Virginia Fair, and The Lamp Went Out., read by Dorothy Barr, were acted by the members of the club. Following the entertainment, refreshments and dancing in the gymnasium were enjoyed. DEBATING SOCIETY On January 17, a number of the mem- bers were the guests of the Men’s Club of the Wollaston Congregational Church at a supper and debate on the Death Penalty, given by two of the officials of the state prison. At one of the regular meetings of the society, talks were given, departing from the usual customs of holding debates. These proved rather interesting and are to be used to vary the meetings in the future. The Baitmes Habitual Offender Law and The Right of the U. S. to Interfere in South American Disputes, were among the questions recently debated. At the meeting on March 4th, the fol- lowing officers were elected to fill vacancies caused by graduation: Pres lent ...........Charles Baker I ice-Presulent _______ George Murphy Se retary.. David Meaney Wendell May will continue as Treas- urer. THE Q. B. CLUB On February 11, ten members were initiated into the Quincy Bridgewater Club. Games, dancing, and refreshments were enjoyed. The committee in charge was Katherine Phillips, president; Sylvia Bianchi, Marie Johnson, Edith Hayden, Virginia Fair, Anita Carrera, and Mary Di Bartholomeo. On March 5, a luncheon was served in honor of Miss Elizabeth Pope, dean of girls at Bridgewater Normal School, at which Miss Virginia Wakeman, Miss Mildred Harrison, and the officers of the club were present. HERE AND THERE The June, ’30, Golden Rod Staff en- tertained the February, ’31, Staff on March 5. After a luncheon in the cafe- teria, they adjourned to the library, where a round-table discussion was held. A new traffic squad has been organized with only members of the June, ’30, class as officers. On Friday, February 28, after the in- terclass basketball game, the students enjoyed an hour and a half of dancing, a new feature which is hoped will continue. Motion pictures of the Quincy-Beverly and the Quincy-Brockton football games were shown on March 5 by Mr. Harold Lyon. The pictures were taken by Harri- son Fiske, a graduate of our school. Between 40 and 50 Quincy Senior High School science students trouped into M. I. T. recently to hear Prof. John W. Bunker speak on “From Molecule to Man.” 24 THE GOLDEN-ROD Radio programs are being received during the lunch periods, in the assembly hall, as an experiment for the relief of congested conditions in the cafeteria. A new electric automatic bookkeeping and billing machine has been installed in the commercial department. Herbert Hanson of the June, ’30, class has succeeded Donald Fairfield, who graduated in the February, ’30, class, as concert master of the first orchestra. He has taken lessons on the violin for seven years. Honor Roll for the Quarter Ending January 24, 1930 FEBRUARY, 1930 Highest Honors Rose Barnett Evelyn Christie Gladys DeLuca Myerma Hersey Eliza Hutchinson Ruth Koss Pauline Pavan John Pinkham Edith Silverman John Walsh Honors Dorothy Allen Evangeline Bryan Gertrude Cleary Dora Constantine Emily Dixon Oscar Eckblom Donald Fairfield Sadie Fleishman Evelyn Fontana Helene Johnson Merriel Kimball Esther Lindberg Sylvia Locke Isabel MacBurnie Albert Sherman Mary Simmons Bernice Smith Robert Sternes Irene Stone lone Wells Morion Williams JUNE, 1930 Highest Honors Ferrer DiBona Hilja Malstrom Burton Engley Vera Mattson Mabclle Hanson A vice Morton Margaret King Kenneth Ryder Coniston Lees Dorothy Squire Honors Hazel Berry Edward Kirkland Sylvia Bianchi Dagmar Lindberg Marjorie Brown Catherine Long William Cagney Edith Luomala Muriel Castleman Mary McCarthy Mary Crowley Bernadette McWeeney Louise Cummings Alice Magnant Wallace Fairfield Lillian Pearce Dorothy Fisher Alice Rahko Isadorc Cotlieb Aaron Redcay Hazel Harvey Josephine Salvucci Marjorie Hill Evelyn Savard Grace Holden Doris Sherrill Ethel Johnson Ruth Spear JUNE, , 1930 Highest Honors Vcllamo Wilander Honors Helen Swcetser Florence Whittemore Jean Turnbull Linwood Young FEBRUARY, 1930 Highest Honors Helen Poland Harold Slate Esther Dewey Marguerite Iiaake Kathleen Hofferty Irene Cutler Mary DiBartolomeo Laura Freberg Ruth Johnson Esther Koski Margaret Lahey Esther Leppala Honors Janet Hemingway Eugene Xattie Doris Rizze Warren Sillen Edna Skinner Warren Sundstrom JUNE, 1931 Highest Honors Elizabeth Cornish Bessie MacAulay Flora DiBona Dorothy Pratt Helen Lahey Lois Absalom Carl Anderson Ethel Asncs Marie Bailey Carrie Bohlken Bernice Brown Clare Collagan Ellen Fagerlund Anna Fruth Thelma Goode Honors Florence Harney Betty Keniley Sidney Kurtzman Roger McCormick Marion McSorley Theodore Poutree Eleanor Rappaport Barbara Somers Mary Varney Virginia Wheeler FEBRUARY, 1932 Highest Honors Betty Kupcrman Henry Little Edith Lundgrcn Sarah Moscardelli ' Alfred Pactovis Frank Chiminiello Dorothy Goldstein Mary Hutson Lawrence Reid Helen Peak Martha Schwartz Virginia Spencer Barbara Walsh Dorothy Wyman II onors Doris Laporte Anna Swenson Mabel Walsh JUNE, 1932 Highest Honors Mary Battaglia Arthur Peel Ruth Darr Robert Putnam Lillian Halonen Helmi Saari Sibley Higginbotham Sadye Stein Francis Jenkins Honors Frank Brodil Elliott Countway David Eng Jane Ferris Gertrude Fleishman Marion Holmes Vera Karhu George Kinnaird Irene Lawton Ellen Leahy Lilia Mignault Irja Pullman Doris Roberts Helen Russell Sarah Sargent Elizabeth Shields Rose Silverman John Sisson Janet Thompson Doris Van Bibber THE GOLDEN-ROD 25 June, 1902 Herbert Arnold is a professor at Columbia University. William Carey is manager of the Con- tinental Store, Boston. Mary Ferguson is an instructor of Gymnastics at Perkins Institute for the Blind. John Smith is an attorney-at-law in Quincy. June, 1916 Mr. James Hilton Marr, after having spent a year abroad, studying music under Monsieur Philipp, has resumed his duties as musical director and teacher at Saint Mark’s School, Southboro, Massa- chusetts. Helen Rogers was married to William Rockfort in November. June, 1917 Mr. and Mrs. Webster W. Pierce announced the birth of a daughter, born January 22, 1930, in New York. June, 1919 Marjorie Cole, assistant in Illustration and Costume Design to C. Howard Walker at the School of Fine Arts and Crafts, Boston, of which she is a grad- uate, is also doing free-lance advertising drawing. June, 1920 Mr. J. H. Bartlett graduated with honor from Northeastern University in 1924. He was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Civil Engineering. Subse- quently he registered in the School of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, where he was awarded the Master of Arts degree two years ago. He studied in Germany on the Parker Fellowship from Harvard, and at present is at Oxford University, Cambridge, England. Upon his return he will be a candidate at Harvard for the Ph. D. degree. June, 1921 Reginald Hanson graduated from Dart- mouth, 1926. He is working with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, in the Traffic Department. He married Miss Ethel Winslow of Lowell, Massachusetts, February 22, 1930. Dorothy Prout is married to Mr. Daniel Ford, Jr. Heslys Southerland and Gladys Fletcher were married in November. June, 1922 Geraldine Hanson graduated from the Keene Normal School, New Hampshire, and is now teaching grammar school in Hartford, Connecticut. Leon Prior is president of the Young People’s Fellowship, Christ Church. June, 1923 Bernice Fredett announced her engage- ment to Robert Crooks, Brookline. A shower was recently tendered her by her friends of Atlantic. She will live in Seattle. Alice Goodhue is music instructor at South Junior High School. February, 1924 Eleanor Poulin was married to Harold Stoddard in January. June, 1924 Christine Lints is head of the Circula- 26 THE GOLDEN-ROD tion Bookkeeping Department of the Quincy Evening News. Phyllis Mosman teaches the piano and plays the organ in the Union Congre- gational Church. Agnes Cunningham, working for the Western Electric Company, New York, announced her engagement to Jack Flood of Richmond Hill, New York. Dorothy Hall was married to Everett Kinghorn, an employee of the Granite Trust Bank, Quincy. Mildred Wood graduated from For- sythe Dental School and is working as a dental hygienist for a Boston dentist. February, 1925 Mrs. Lester Coffin (Elizabeth Morris), with her husband and baby daughter, Ruth, has recently moved to Quincy from Nantucket Island, where she has lived since their marriage. Ruth Johnson is teaching in the Francis Parker School, Wollaston. Gunnar Gcolotte, Harvard, 1929, is now living in New York, where he is employed by the National Aniline Chemi- cal Company, learning the business of Foreign Trade. Myrtle Campbell is working at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation. Henry Russell is a Senior at Tufts College. William Tarlox, M. I. T., 1929, is em- ployed at Fore River as a draftsman in Naval Architecture. Alexander Souden, M. I. T., 1929, received a graduation scholarship in Electro Chemical Engineering, and ex- pects to receive his M. A. degree in June. June, 1925 Chandler Ryder is in his Junior year at University of New Hampshire. Ruth Sawtclle was married to Gilbert Mason Lothrop, February 6, 1930. Miss Sawtelle was a Church News editor of the Patriot Ledger, and is to continue her work on that paper. Late in January her sister, Flelen, also of June, 1925, married Fred Mason, and is living in Connecticut. Virginia Carville, who received her A. B. degree from Radcliffe last June, is now studying at the graduate school of the University of Wisconsin. Mary Darrah is a teacher at the John Hancock School, Quincy. John Hofferty is enrolled in the grad- uate school of Boston University, after receiving his A. B. degree from there. Anna May Kimball, a graduate of the Forsythe Dental School, Boston, is an assistant to Doctor Dempsey. Vera Persion is working for her A. M. degree at Columbia graduate school. Carmel Deady is teaching at the Wil- lard School. John Fairbanks, Jr., is a Senior at Annapolis. Evelyn Hanson is with the Boston Consolidated Gas Company, Quincy Branch. Clarence J. Mattson successfully passed government examinations, received his license for Radio Operator, and now has taken up his duties at Natucket. February, 1927 Sylvia Carlson and Mildred Johnson graduated from Bridgewater Normal School. R. I. Raynor, a member of the Alpha Si. ina Phi fraternity, is on the Dean’s List at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont. June, 1927 John Martin is attending the University of Pennsylvania. Ruth Lints is su. .lying dancing at the Ned Wayburn Studio, Broadway, New York. Paul Reardon received an appointment for the Harvard Debating Team. Viola El’Hatton, now at Possen Nissen, is a member of the Basketball team. Lucille Cook will graduate in June from the Lesley School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, completing a three year Kindergarten Training Course. Dick Reynolds is at Boston College. Edmund Carey is a Junior at Boston College. THE GOLDEN-ROD 27 Mary Sweaney is attending Boston Teachers College. “Miss Marjorie Moles of Wollaston, now in her Junior year at Jackson College, the women’s department of Tufts College, is now busy with getting the varsity basketball team, of which she is captain, ready for their playing season. This is the third year that Miss Moles has had occasion to play on the varsity team as guard. Miss Moles shows a versatility in extra-curricular activities as well as in sports. She played in hockey, volley ball, baseball, and has won positions on the varsity squads of all of these. She is marshal of her class and a member of the Chi Omega fraternity.” We quote a bulletin from Jackson Col- lege. February, 1928 Charles Gabriel is with the Granite Trust Bank, Quincy. Elizabeth Kinghorn is attending Simmons. Mary Laing is assisting Mr. Taylor with Violin instructions. Eleanor Bugel is in the office at the Children’s Hospital, Boston. Robert Zottoli is attending University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Rosamond Bugel is working for the State Street Trust Company, Boston. Leonard Golbranson is a sophomore at Northeastern University. Ruth Bartlett and Gertrude E. Bruton are at Bryant and Stratton Commercial School, Boston. Harrison Fish is a junior at Boston University. Robert Luce is majoring in Mathe- matics at Princeton College. June, 1928 Carson Hunt is at Boston Institute of Technology. Nancy Coffman is working in a Quincy lawyer’s office. Neil Eaton and his wife, formerly Miss Sadie Shoals, are living in New York. Edith Haslett has charge of the Classi- fied Advertisements of the Quincy Even- ing News. Charles Berg is at Boston University. Frances Palmer was one of a commit- tee on arrangements for the annual Gamma Delta dance of Boston Univer- sity, given at the Copley Plaza. Lorain Fawcett and Ethel Hein were members of a party of students from the Vesper George Art School visiting Art museums and Interior Decorating Studios in New York recently. June, 1928 Donald Fuller, after taking a P. G. at Thayer, has entered West Point. Max Turok is studying Chemistry at Tufts College. Theresa Kroesser is in the office of the Superintendent of Schools. Alexander Smith is at Bentley’s, studying Accounting. Ruth Collogan is a stenographer in the Chamber of Commerce office, Quincy. Sydney Rappaport is a sophomore at William’s and Mary’s College in Virginia. Marion Fowler, Esther C. LaTour, Anna M. Leahy, and Leonora Sferruzza are attending Bryant and Stratton Com- mercial School, Boston. Jeannie Steinbrenner is attending Emanuel College. Donald B. Gilman is Vice-President of the Class of 1932 at Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology, Boston. Grace Magura is working in the office at North Junior High School, and expects to go in training in September in the Falkner Hospital. Edith Paige is a student at the nurses’ training school in Quincy. February, 1929 Dorothy Cobb is in the office of the Trade School. Florence Cope is attending The House in the Pines, Norton, Massachusetts. Thomas Cook and Thomas Eovacious are at Boston College. Carol Wilmore is working as a librarian at the Montclair and Squantum libraries. 28 THE GOLDEN-ROD Jean Mitchell is training to be a nurse at the Quincy City Hospital. Frances Raymond is attending Sim- mons College. Margaret Quinn is enrolled at the Hyannis Normal School. Hazel Ramsey is studying at the Framingham Normal School. Ruth Gilmartin is a Freshman at Burdett’s College, and Art editor of the school magazine. June, 1929 James Murphy is with Kennedy’s of Quincy. Maurice Hughes is at the Quincy Sav- ings Bank. Helen Bostrom, Hazel Collins, Phyllis E. Countway, and Mildred Tinney are attending Bryant and Stratton’s Com- mercial School, Boston. Helen Malcoln ranks first in the Fresh- man Class at Oberlin College. Donald Foss is working for William Filene Company, Boston. Chester Dahl is working for Lee, Hig- ginson Company, Boston. John Carey is a Freshman at Boston College. William Paterson is attending North- eastern. Elizabeth Shaw and Fanny Stenborg are at Burdett Business College, Boston. Veronica McGillicudy is in training at the Carney Hospital. February, 1930 Dorothy Melendy is at the Colby School for Girls, New London, New Hampshire. Merriel Kimball is attending school in Manchester, New Hampshire, before en- tering Smith College. Alph Peterson has gone to South America. John Pinkham is travelling in Europe for two months. Louise Locke, ’27; Jean Mitchell, F.’29; Virginia Peck, J.’28; Helen Hodgekinson, F.’30, and Winefred Van Raalte recently put on the sketch, “And the Lamp Went Out,” at the Stunt night of Wollaston Assembly, Order of the Rainbow. Beatrice Irwin is entering Massachu- setts General Hospital, Boston, in Sep- tember. Barbara Goward is taking a special P. G. course for entrance into the Con- servatory of Music, Boston. Walter Smith is also taking a special P. G. course for entrance into the Con- servatory of Music, at Utica, New York. William Bartlett, Ruth Bigoness, Evan- geline Bryon, Alma Burgess, Gertrude Clancy, Catherine Cochrane, Abraham Cohen, Catherine Di Panfilo, Emily Dixon, Anne Dunlavy, Elizabeth Dun- lavy, Grace Garland, Mary Harcourt, Helen Johnson, Kermit Kimball, Ruth Koss, Walter Xisula, Merlyn Richardson, Signe Siitonen, John Walsh, Irene Weise, Iona Wells, Dann Wyman, and Irving York are taking Post Graduate Courses. THE GOLDEN-ROD 29 AS OTHERS SEE US “The Screech Owl”—Maynard High School, Maynard, Mass. Your paper is so superior that it is difficult to extract any particular feature for commendation. Your cuts are cer- tainly a big attraction. “Gazette”—Lynn Classical High School, Lynn, Mass. The “Cafeteria Address,” modeled on Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, is very clever. We enjoyed “A Singular Inter- lude,” a story which required an intense imagination to write. “The Mirror”—Waltham High School, Waltham, Mass. The poems, “The Tale of the Cafe- teria” and “A Summer Sunset,” were ex- cellent, as, indeed, we found the entire magazine. We were pleased to find that your conception of the “Ideal Teacher” corresponds with our views. The head- ings of your jokes department were very unique. Your Alumni section also de- serves much credit. “The Jabberwock”—Girls’ Latin School, Boston, Mass. The arrangement of your magazine is good. The school notes are well handled. You seem to have some outside interest for nearly everybody. We were disap- pointed in the meagre literary depart- ment. “A Singular Interlude” is unusual and somewhat weird. Its author must have a rather wild imagination. You have a very large humor department with a good number of amusing jokes. Your athletic department is also well handled. “The Quill” — Kingston High School, Kingston, Mass. The “Golden Rod” of Quincy is a very distinctive magazine. The poem, “A Summer Sunset,” is especially beautiful. This magazine has a good Exchange, and numerous, exceptionally clever jokes. “The Deerfield Arrow” — Deerfield High School, South Deerfield, Mass. A very interesting paper. Your alumni section is strikingly good. Congratula- tions to the author of “Misfortunes of a Sofa Sheik.” “The Magnet” — Leominster High School, Leominster, Mass. “The Golden Rod” of Quincy High School shows the school spirit and activity of the students in every department. The school news section especially reveals the interest taken in many activities. The editorials are timely and thoughtful, and the poetry, too, is good. It is one of the liveliest magazines I have read. “The Tripod” — Thornton Academy, Saco, Maine. We uphold the “Golden Rod” as an example of what a school magazine should be. Each of your numerous depart- ments is well arranged, and highly devel- oped. We believe, however, that photos of your various school buildings would add to your magazine’s attractiveness. Also, we have reason to believe that a history of your school would be an inter- esting subject to include in a future publication. “The Red and White”—Rochester High School, Rochester, New Hampshire. Congratulations to the writer of the unique story, “A Singular Interlude,” in your June issue. We found your Class Census and Memories extremely interest- ing, even though its graduates were un- known to us. The pictures and cartoons add greatly to your paper, but we advise more literary work and poetry. 30 THE GOLDEN-ROD “The Abis”—Abington High School, North Abington, Mass. Your cover design is excellent. Your literary department is good, but couldn’t you give less space to social activities and the Alumni department and more to the literary material produced by your students? Could you have a special de- partmental heading for poetry: If you cannot, would it not be a good idea to put it all together at the end of the literary department? The School News department gives us a very fine idea of your school activities. Is there no way in which you could use the extra space at the end of the depart- ment? Your Alumni department is concise, your Sport department interesting, and your jokes are spicy. Your magazine is already a highly successful one. AS WE SEE OTHERS “Shuttle”—High School of Practical Arts, Boston, Mass. Your cuts are excellent. We suggest an Alumni Column and more original jokes. The poem entitled, “The Lexing- ton Goes Out,” shows real talent. “Harpoon” — Dartmouth High School, New Bedford, Mass. A well edited little magazine. Your poetry department seems to be rather a “one man” affair. We suggest confining all your advertisements to one section. “Quill”—Kingston High School, King- ston, Mass. Your magazine is most enjoyable. e certainly admire your poets. A more ex- tensive Joke Department would be an improvement. “Cony Cue”—Cony High School, Augus- ta, Maine. This Maine magazine is just bubbling over with school spirit. Yotre Depart- ment Frangais est tres interesant. We like your cuts. “Homespun” — Senior High School, Greensboro, North Carolina. We have nothing but praise for you. Your skillfully arranged pages portray unusual talent. “Oriel”—West Borough High School, Westboro, Mass. A well organized magazine. Your department headings are clever. Why not enlarge your Exchange Department? “Jabberwock” — Girls’ Latin School, Boston, Mass. Your Literary Department is well de- veloped. Why not indulge in more jokes, and add a larger Exchange? “Pad and Pencil”—Chandler Secretarial School, Boston, Mass. Another fine publication from Chand- lers. The author of the poem, “Things I Love,” is to be congratulated. Your very original jokes were much appreciated. “Brown and Gold”—Haverhill High School, Haverhill, Mass. Your initial effort is a praiseworthy one. In time, we expect you will have a Literary Column. Are we right? Do you plan to have an Exchange? “Screech Owl”—Maynard High School, Maynard, Mass. From front to back yellow cover your football number was most enjoyable. Your story writers understand the art, and your “Pickings” are indeed choice. “Killonian”—Killingly High School, Danielson, Connecticut. We think more stories and poems uld improve your magazine. Where is your Exchange. “Hermiad” — Hingham High School, Hingham, Mass. Your departments are rather meager. We suggest more editorials. The adding of Exchange and Alumni Departments would help. '‘Whittier Town-Sentinel”—Amesbury High School, Amesbury, Mass. What a lot of fine material is contained in the four pages of your alert “Sentinel.” “Variety is the spice of life,” as your paper proves. Why not add a story or two ? “Semaphore”—Stoughton High School, Stoughton, Mass. Yours is a very original magazine. The Literary Department could be enlarged to advantage. We advise a more extensive Exchange. “Spaulding Sentinel”—Spaulding High School, Barre, Vermont. Your publication was most entertain- THE GOLDEN-ROD 31 ing. Your literary Department deserves special mention. “Tattler” — Nashua High School, Nashua, Mass. Your stories have distinction, but where, oh where are your poets? Your Exchanges are well written. “Red and Black”—Dorchester High School for Boys, Dorchester, Mass. The news write-ups show that you have very competent editors. Why not put some of “those artists” to work mak- ing cuts for your magazine? We looked in vain for Exchange and Alumni Depart- ments. “Aerial”—J. M. Atherton High School for Girls, Louisville, Kentucky. Your bi-weekly paper is excellent, con- sidering its frequent publication. We en- joyed every one of your clever stories. “B. C. S.” — Bishop’s College School, Lennoxville, Quebec. From Quebec comes this lively “Prep School” magazine. We were immediately impressed by its size. And on reading it, we received many more pleasant sur- prises. Your pictures and cuts are at- tractive, and your poems original. It is one of the most professional magazines which we receive. “Huntington Record” — Huntington School, Boston, Mass. A newsy bi-weekly paper. Why not comment on some of your long list of exchanges? Your jokes are spicy. “Gazette”—Lynn Classical High School, Lynn, Mass. As fine a piece of humor as one could hope for! We especially appreciated “Number 9999 or Susie Ann Goes Skat- ing.” Every department in this well arranged magazine was enjoyable. “The Courier” — Hyde Park High School, Hyde Park, Mass. Some original department heading cuts would be a great improvement to your publication. We suggest an Exchange! “Noddler”—East Boston High School, East Boston, Mass. Your publication is one of the best that we have received this time. The Literary Department fairly took our breath away. Frank Bonzagni’s sense of humor was much appreciated. Your cuts are the “last word.” “Item”—Dorchester High School for Girls, Dorchester, Mass. We like your magazine, especially the stories. Your “personals” are exceed- ingly original. Isn’t your Exchange De- partment rather meager? “Deerfield Arrow” — Deerfield High School, South Deerfield, Mass. A few pictures and original cuts would improve your otherwise splendid maga- zine. Why not comment on more of your long list of Exchanges? “Enterprise” — Keene High School, Keene, New Hampshire. We await with impatience the next in- stallment of your continued story. Your cuts are attractive. “Swampscotta” — Swampscott High School, Swampscott, Mass. We found many interesting things in this number. Your very unique Literary Department was most attractive. “Tripod” — Thornton Academy, Saco, Maine. Yours is a fine magazine. We especi- ally like your poetry and your wide- awake editorials. Keep up the good work! “Magnet” — Leominster High School, Leominster, Mass. We congratulate the competent staff of this magazine. Your Literary offerings are commendable, and your editorials well done. We were interested in your pic- tures and cuts. “M. H. S. Oracle”—Manchester High School, Manchester, Mass. We almost feel as though we have just been abroad, after reading your splendid articles on so many countries of the world. We like your Book Notes. Your cuts are original and add much to your fine magazine. We wish to acknowledge the following: “The Ogdensburg Academy” — Ogdens- burg Academy, Ogdensburg, N. Y. “The Hebronite”—Hebron, Nebraska. “The Rindge Register”—Rindge Tech- nical School, Cambridge, Mass. 32 THE GOLDEN-ROD Please excuse us for (wTy naming Super Muir as basketball captain in place of Bob A4attson. But these two are such close companions! It was a regrettable mistake. Capt. Gordon Donnan attributes his success as a track man to the fact that he is a woman hater. Some of you fair damsels may not agree with me, but just ask “Moonbeam” about the week he spent at Barnstable. Shame on you, “Moonbeam,” treating the ladies so. Will someone please make a donation! There is a movement on foot to buy a “pony” for Mike Kurtis to go with his new POLO SHIRT. Maybe Mike got some inside information from “Doc” Whiting about starting a Polo team, and has been practicing on that saw horse that has been seen in his back yard. Some class to the Blue and White re- lay team! They broke the class B record of 3 minutes and 1 second for 4 5 miles, by 1 5 second. The order of the relay men was: Ed. Galvin, Cushman, Normic Sipple, and Stan Marland. We expect to see Earl Lantery out for the broad jump this spring. Hope he does as well in the jump as in cross- country two years ago. Jimmy LeCain says the best exercise, anywhere, any time, for conditioning, is running. COME OUT FOR TRACK, YOU FELLOWS! Donnan and Conolly ought to go strong for the pole-vault as well as the jump this spring. John Iovanna is one of our best promises in wrestling. We expect to see him as our full-back next fall on the gridiron. 'Loots Bowers is showing ability in wrestling as he did in basketball. Peewee Dunbar, our wrestler, has visions of turning pro. Here’s to his match with the Strangler. Now that busses are running in Squantum, Chet will get out of training, not having to run for the “Toonerville.” TSK! TSK! Ed. Kirkland promises to be the fastest quarter-miler Quincy has seen. Cherro, fellows! How are you? Me? Oh! I’m fine. What did you think of the past basketball season, huh? Wasn’t so bad, but the second team had a better record than the first. The bugle and drum corps which the Nautical Training School brought with them were small, but, oh! my! what noise they made. They were good, and surely drowned out our own band. What will Quincy High do next year when the basketball team will be with- THE GOLDEN-ROD 33 out the services of Bob Mattson, “Super” Muir, Red Halloran, “Toots” Bowers, “Bucky” McGuinness, Art Olinto, “Beema” Pollegrini, and Jim Mckenna! I wonder if the results of any of the games lost would have been different if “Toots” Bowers had played all season? Although “Toots” was a bear on the defense in all the games, I bet he couldn’t keep “Billie” Clark covered. Why? Because he’d be admiring her all the time. (Personally, I wouldn’t blame him.) Speaking of the girls, I think some of them could have made the varsity. How would you like to see “Billie” Clark and “Happy” Blowers forwards, “Chickie” Reeves center, and Chris Messenger and Claire McDonald guards, go up against the Medford or Watertown varsity? Well, fellows, a wrestling team has been started here. Many of the holds learned will come in handy in the sum- mer, when a “young man’s thoughts turn lightly to love.” In the first wrestling meet, against Needham at Needham, Quincy was the victor, 50—25. Not so awful for be- ginners, what? If the girls’ game had been a beauty contest, which team would have won if you were the judge? This is another one for Solomon. Although the Student Council was thinking seriously of having dancing every Friday afternoon in the gym, this won’t be started until next year. This is due to the late ending of Lent this year. The students enthusiastically endorsed basketball this year. Let’s do as much for baseball and track. Are you willing? Medford, Watertown, Norwood, and Brockton all conquered Quincy on the court twice this year. (The varsity, not the seconds.) If any of the gymnasium apparatus is marked, defaced, or injured, it will only serve to prove that the battery candidates have been working out there. “Doc” W’hiting has been A. W. O. L. for some time. He is seriously ill at his home in Abington. This little man, who uses all kinds of five syllable words, is missed a great deal. Art Olinto is also confined to his home because of sickness. Everyone knows Art and his smile. We hope he’ll return to school soon. Art is just the type of fel- low who hates to stay away from school, if you can imagine such a person. Did you like the dancing held in the gym after the championship interclass basketball contests? Many of the fellows trying out for pitcher are now sorry that they didn’t take Jimmy LeCain’s advice to go easy for the first few days. Every time they move their arms, it hurts. The mercurichrome bill is going to in- crease rapidly since wrestling has been introduced here. Every day a few fellows get burns, and I guess they sting. Why doesn’t some genius appear and invent a silk-covered mat for these future Sonnen- bergs? In track practice, Calvin is going out, out, out, in the broad jump, and Donnan is going up, up, up, in the pole vault. Quincy should have a pretty good track season, for things look bright. The traffic cops, Terry and Dave, standing on the second floor sure do come into contact with a great many people. Sometimes a little forcefully! The final school bell of the day means 1:30 P.M. to some people but not to pupils in Miss Gallahcr’s home room. We haven’t had a fire drill for some time, have we? I think we should have them more often, just to keep in trim. Figures of despair, members of the Golden Rod staff writing up all their material two days before it is due. Last year Quincy High won two base- ball games. We all hope for a better season this year, and I know we’re go- ing to have it. If you think Art Shires is full of egotism, you should hear one or two fellows who attend this school. One is already first-string quarterback on next year’s football team (according to him- 34 THE GOLDEN-ROD self), while the other greets you with this riddle: “Who is the best basketball player in Quincy High, and why am I?” Isn’t it a wonderful sensation to sit dreamily in a classroom and think of the summer vacation coming nearer every day: But when the teacher says “Now Somebody, you may recite the next theorem,” you forget the vacation. Did you see the Springfield College gym team perform here? If so, what did you think of them: Didn’t all the men on it have marvelous physiques? Speaking of physiques, I’d like to possess the one that belongs to Bill Sul- livan. What a build! If you are reading these things in your neighbor’s Golden Rod, kindly give it back to him and buy one of your own. I don’t wish to be sarcastic, but if you pupils wish to have a school magazine, you must support it. Gee, fellers, what do you think some of these teachers would do to us if they found out their nicknames? I guess many more pupils would flunk, anyway. Have you ever noticed that all the wise-cracking teachers are science teach- ers, or vice versa? See you next issue, huh? Adios. SPORTETTTE throw, basketball throw, etc. (lots of etc.) Bye the bye, did you notice the technique in basketball of the soon-to-be seniors, and the high and haughty low seniors? “We wonder if they broke training.” Keep it up, girls, we want to see more of you. You’ll have to admit, boys, that they were pretty good. Pretty soon they’ll be playing the B-B-B-Brock- ton Girls. Please excuse the stuttering. The “Lucky” girls will receive their coveted letters (not their boy friend’s letters). Be serious. We were sorry to say that, judging by emotions dis- played after the game, the Seniors took it hard. It was damp weather inside that afternoon. Don’t feel badly, girls. The Bowling Team was a howling suc- cess. So would you be, if you got hit by one of those missiles. The conquerors were the High Seniors. Why aren’t these bowling matches patronized? They are held over at the Y. M. C. A. The “Swimming Team” either got drowned or doesn’t like to be all wet . . . It has entirely disappeared . . . Evi- dentlv the girls couldn’t brave the waters of the Y. W. C. A. Baseball opens soon, too. Try this also. Maybe we’ve got a new hidden Babe Ruth or such, who knows? Evidently spring is here, and with spring not only flowers but track appears. “Oui, monsieur.” Girl’s track! “Why!” “Of course not. We wear our regular gym uniforms.” “It’s respectable.” We expect many flourishing candidates to come out for this sport. Try it, any- way. Hidden powers may be found in bashful little you (sometimes they are very hidden). One word,—when you come out, run as if you were running from a “timid” bull, and when you jump, jump as if the neighbor’s dog had caught you borrowing apples. Also, Little Ones, don’t be bashful. Close your eyes and no one will see you. Besides run- ning, there arc shot put (4 pounds). broad jump (yes, girls jump), baseball BASEBALL Battery candidates have been working out in the gymnasium daily after school since March 3. As soon as the weather permits, the infielders and outfielders will be called out. Eight veterans, headed by Captain-elect Pellegrini, are returning from last year’s squad. The schedule, which is a rather hard one, follows: April 29—Abingion at Quincy. Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma 2—Braintree at Quincy. 6—Open. 9—Milton at Quincy. 13—Brockton at Brockton. 16—Thayer Academy at Quincy. 20—Abington at Abington. 23—Open. 27—Hinghain at Quincy. THE GOLDEN-ROD 35 f WANT CANDIDATES FOR 0 BASE BALL TEAM any one can sophomores. juniors or Seniors are all alike to me, the best cfet's on the team. on FELLOWS YOUR SCHOOL SPIRIT help me build a TEAM t quiriCY HIGH OVER I l iank you Coach LeCfllN The shot-put appears to be the weakest event, although Kurtis can do better than forty feet. Calvin and Marland are capable of twenty feet in the broad jump, while Donnan, MacMulkin, Connolly, and Olinto can high-jump five feet five inches. Donnan, Cook, and Connolly shine in the pole vault. It’s a toss-up for positions in the dashes and runs. The schedule includes dual meets with Milton Academy, Somerville, Dorchester, Winthrop, Watertown, and Newton. Quincy High is entered in the five-school meet with Weymouth, Braintree, Hing- ham, and Abington, which will be held on June 7. The track team will also participate in the Boston College, State, and Amherst Interscholastic meets. WRESTLING Holds, Holds, “ ’Tis not a petting party, but a brand new branch of ath- letics that has been introduced into our school. Wrestling! Here is a sport that May 29—Weymouth at Weymouth. June 3—Braintree at Braintree. June 6—Weymouth at Quincy. June 10—Brockton at Quincy. June 13—Milton at Milton. Last year the team enjoyed (?) a dis- mal season, so let’s hope for it and cheer it on this year. TRACK Although Coach Wilson flatly refuses to make any pre-season predictions, the coming track season has all the ear- marks of being a very successful one. Many letter men are returning to the team, and most of them were stars last year. Marland, Moreton, Kirkland, Sipple, Calvin, Kurtis, Connolly, and Captain-elect Donnan will be the nucleus of this year’s team. From the cross- country team come Morgan, Bonomi, Mulhall, Sprague, South worth, and Fol- lctt to try their hand at track events. The material is very promising. Sopho- mores and juniors are urged to go out for track this year, even though they do not make the first team. Competition for a second team will also be planned. LOOK LOOK LOOK have started jO 'ccurse its a wresifin Heanj, and ive want wore ] can dictates. VJe wanf fo grandancl anaed |Sporf become a ryjojor sport jo out- schooi candidales 4be ktnem'er. Come on Jbe Spores and Ihelp the I earn 'along. Coach t iacOo olJ 36 THE GOLDEN-ROD offers a chance to every boy in the school. Coach MacDonald gave a summons for candidates, and about sixty-five boys signed up. Not all of these showed up for practice, however. Our coach has arranged meets on a home and home basis with Needham and Watertown, there being four matches altogether. WE MEET NEEDHAM The first match in our history of wrestling was held at Needham, Friday, March 7. Quincy was victorious, win- ning ten of the fifteen bouts. The final score was 50—25. Time given was seven minutes. The best bout of the meet was won by Jenkins of Quincy in four minutes with an arm and body hold. “Toots” Bowers was the cause of the fastest match, throwing Chamberlain of Needham in fifteen seconds. Bowers also showed up well in basketball this year. Leland Anderson of Quincy acted as referee, while Phil Claxton and Frank E. MacDonald were judges. RESUME OF MATCHES AT NEEDHAM Unlimited Class—Volpe (Q.) threw Hatch (X.) with a body and arm hold. Time: Three minutes. 165-Pound Class—Spark (X.) threw Kurtis (Q.) with a crotch and half-Xelson. Time: One minute. 160-Pound Class—I wanna (Q.) threw Egan (X.) with a body and arm hold. Time: Three minutes. 155-Pound Class—Kimball (X.) threw Hall (Q.) with a body hold. Time: Four minutes. 150-Pound Class—Lund (Q.) threw Maloney (X.) with a body hold. Time: 15 seconds. 150-Pound Class—Starkweather (X.) threw Nattic (Q.) with an arm and body hold. Time: Five minutes. 140-Pound Class—Walker (Q.) threw Xulhcrn (X.) with an arm and body hold. Time: Two minutes. 135-Pound Class—Sprague (Q.) threw West (X.) with an arm and body hold. 'lime: One minute. 30 seconds. 135-Pound Class—Jenkins (Q.) threw Hasenas (X.) with a half-Nelson and body hold. Time: Four minutes. 30 seconds. 125-Pound Class—Mitchell (X.) threw Hill (Q.) with an arm and body hold. lime: Four minutes. 115-Pound Class—Patten (Q.) threw Hall (X.) with an arm scissors. Time: Three minutes. 115-Pound Class—Adorn (Q.) threw Derdercan (X.) with a body hold. Time: Two minutes. 100-Pound Class—Di Christoferio (Q.) threw Gambil (X.) with a half-Xelson and body hold. Time: Two minutes. 30 seconds. 100-Pound Class—L. Xuthern (X.) threw Dun- bar (Q.) with an arm scissors. Time: Three minutes. WRESTLING Quincy met Watertown in the Quincy gym, Friday, the 14th. The Watertown team looked big, but our fears were soon dispelled when we found out that this is a game of skill rather than strength. The Blue and White won its second vic- tory of its career, 22J4 to 17p2. “Toots” Bowers gave a fine exhibition of wrestling, also a short one, the time being 48 seconds. Patten of Quincy also portrayed skill in this old art. Mike Kurtis is resorting to what he learned in football—the flying tackle. Iovanna, our most promising candidate, defeated Pappas of Watertown after a most exciting battle, both contestants showing skill in executing many holds. Iovanna won, after a hard tussle, with a crotch and body hold. Quincy’s next meet is with Needham at Quincy, Friday, March 21. Phil Claxton, former Quincy physical instruc- tor, will have his wrestling team here for the return meet. The summary of the matches: Unlimited Class—1 legman ( V.) threw Volpe (Q.) with a crotch and half-Xelson. Time: Four minutes. 30 seconds. 165-PounJ Class—Kurtis (Q.) threw Egan ( Y.) with a crotch and body hold. 'lime: Three min- utes. 55 seconds. 155-Pound Class—Iovanna (Q.) threw Pappas ( Y.) with a crotch and half-Xelson. Time: Two minutes. 38 seconds. 145-Pound Class—Southworth (Q.) threw Mc- Namara ( V.) with a half-Xelson and crotch. Time: Three minutes. 10 seconds. 135-Pound Class—Kalafatis (VV.) threw Gheradi (Q.) with a half-Xelson and body hold. Time: Four minutes. 10 seconds. 125-Pound Class—Bonomi (Q.) threw Hagopian THE GOLDEN-ROD 37 —AND MOW copies I NtEP HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING W|7H ASTONISHING RESULTS 1?) (W.) with a half-Nelson and crotch hold. Time: Three minutes, 47 seconds. 105-Pound Class—Paulcro ( V.) threw Di Cris- tafero (Q.) with an arm scissors and body hold. Time: Three minutes. 36 seconds. 95-Pound Class—Kelly (Q.) and Johnson (W.), draw. Time: Five minutes. Coach MacDonald also gave us the pleasure of seeing an exhibition match between two of Quincy’s smallest wrestlers, Peewee Dunbar and Lind- berg. Dunbar won the match. Tommy Record of Weymouth refereed, and “Stud” Johnson of Quincy was time- keeper. BASKETBALL Quincy started off on the right road by conquering Massachusetts Nautical School, 26—15. Quincy didn’t hit its stride until the second half, but then it was just too bad for those Nautical boys. Next, Quincy journeyed to Medford, and when the final whistle blew our team was on the short end of a 26—15 score. Medford had a very tight defense. Next on the schedule came Weymouth. Matt- son and Muir were kept out of this con- test for the first half, during which our boys rolled up a 9—5 lead. Then came the second half, and both “Bobs” were inserted. Ere the smoke of the battle cleared away, Mattson had scored 12 points and Muir 10 points, Quincy emerg- ing victorious, 37—15. The second team was defeated, 12—9. At Watertown, we were defeated, 20— 13, in a very rough game. In sharp con- trast to this game was the game played by the second teams. The Quincy team was running smoothly during the entire game, and won, 17—5. Johnny Bradley starred, scoring 10 points. Milton High was the visiting attraction here on Tuesday, January 21. Milton was defeated, 33—13. Strange to say, Milton scored all of its 13 points by cag- ing foul baskets. Fisher and Halloran were the big shots in the main game, while Young, Rougvie, and Bradley scintillated in the preliminary game, which Quincy handily won, 24—5. Norwood beat Quincy, 22—19. As the score indicates, it was a very close game, and a heart-breaker for us to lose. The seconds turned the tables, though, and vanquished Norwood seconds, 10—5. Next came Brockton. Oh! What would Quincy have given to trail the Red and Black in the dust! But better years are coming, and that’s no falsehood. It’s sufficient to quietly state that Brockton was the victor, 32—16. Even our second team lost, 27—21. (“Never mind, we’ve still got another chance on Washington’s birthday,” everybody was thinking.) Now, a fellow named “Toots” Bowers bobbed up in the next game, that one with Milton Academy. What a sv ret player he turned out to be! He played 38 THE GOLDEX-ROD right guard, and netted 10 points, as did Bob Mattson. This was the first game won on an enemy’s court, and also the first contest in which Fisher, Christensen, and Chase failed to appear (due to graduation). They were missed, but “Toots” makes up a lot for them. The final score was 39—5. Milton Academy didn’t net a single basket, scoring 5 foul goals. Bowers also stood out as a defense man. On Tuesday, February 4, Medford was our guest, and did what no polite guest would do by taking home all the bacon, the first team winning, 20—6, and the second team, 16—11. Spellman starred for Medford in the former game, while Pellegrini was the big shop for Quincy in the curtain-raiser. On the following Friday, Norwood played in our gym. As happened at Norwood, the teams broke even, our first losing, 30—24, and the second winning, 20—5. Norwood’s second team basketted 5 fouls. The big game was a hard one to lose, the winner not being certain until the very end of the game. Many times the count was knotted, but Norwood forged ahead in the last few minutes and remained in the lead. We again defeated Milton High on their court, 29—26. The game was very close throughout, and we were indeed fortunate to emerge victorious. Lane and McDermott of Watertown scored too many points to suit us, so we were beaten, 33—20. Red Halloran was high scorer for Quincy. The seconds, headed by Chet Young and Bud Rougvie, easily won, 23—11. That somewhat eased the smarting caused by the defeat of our varsity. Capt. Mattson didn’t participate in this game because he wasn’t feeling well. Let’s hope he takes part in the next one, though. On February 1, our teams journeyed to Weymouth, both of them coming out on top, the first 42—23 and the second 41— 20. Both games were more hotly con- tested than the score indicates. “Toots” Bowers and Red Halloran were the lead- ing scorers in the big encounter, while Bill Sullivan and Pellegrini shone in the game between the second teams. Now, folks, last but not least, comes this game with Brockton on February 22, the second meeting between these teams. As you remember, Brockton ran away with both games before. They came quite close to repeating this, too. The Brockton varsity won, 28—23. Myer and Baker were high scorers for Brockton, and Bowers and Mattson were the same for Quincy. The contest between the second teams was a wow. At half time the score was 2—2, and when the game was three-quarters over, Quincy was leading, 7—6. Then Hurwitz entered the game, replacing Pileski, who had scored four points. (Haven’t I heard that name Pileski before?) Hurwitz likewise man- ufactured four points, to put Brockton in the lead, 10—9. With but a few seconds to go, Bill Sullivan and Bucky Mc- Guinness nonchalantly stepped up to the foul line, in the order named, and each sunk his attempt. Next came the whistle. Final score is Quincy seconds, 11; Brock- ton seconds, 10. Boy, what a happy ending! Bud Rougvie basketted four points in the latter game, and they cer- tainly were necessary. Spc S+v denti O't Ovr. v ofceo1 Hoi icj As ihe girls and sophs understand a base ball game fl ier hearing iwo players talk oboui it) (WHYHOT GO TO A GOME flfiD LEARM) SMOW YOUR SCHOOL SPIRIT COHE OffE COME £LL 40 THE GOLDEN-ROD Following is the summary of the games played: Quincy High First Team Quincy 26 — 15 Mass. Nautical Quincy 15 — 26 Medford Quincy 37 — 15 Weymouth Quincy 13 — 20 Watertown Quincy 33 — 13 Milton High Quincy 19 22 Norwood Quincy 16 — 32 Brockton Quincy 39 — 5 Milton Academy Quincy 6 — 20 Medford Quincy 24 — 30 Norwood Quincy 29 — 26 Milton High Quincy 20 — 33 Watertown Quincy 42 — 23 Weymouth Quincy 23 — 28 Brockton 342 —308 lcs played, 14: won, 6; lost, 8. Points—For, 342; against, 308. Here is the record of the Second Team: Quincy Seconds 32 — 2 Mass. Nautical Seconds Quincy Seconds 17 — 23 Medford Seconds Quincy Seconds 9 — 12 Weymouth Seconds Quincy Seconds 17 — 5 Watertown Seconds Quincy Seconds 24 — 5 Milton Seconds Quincy Seconds 15 — 5 Norwood Seconds Quincy Seconds 21 — 27 Brockton Seconds Quincy Seconds 11 — 16 Medford Seconds Quincy Seconds 20 — 5 Norwood Seconds Quincy Seconds 23 — 11 Watertown Seconds Quincy Seconds 41 — 20 Weymouth Seconds Quincy Seconds 11 — 10 Brockton Seconds 236 —141 Games played. 12: won, 8: lost, 4. Points—For, 236: against. 141. SCORE RECORD Below is listed the number of points scored by each member of the First and Second Basketball Teams: First Team Player Field Goals Fouls Points Mattson 28 19 75 Muir 27 7 61 Bowers _ 24 11 59 Halloran 15 14 44 Meyer . 15 6 36 Christensen ._ 7 7 21 Fisher 8 3 19 Melville 6 2 14 Chase 4 0 8 Olinto 1 1 3 McGuinness 1 0 2 136 70 342 Second Team Player Field Goals Fouls Points Pellegrini ..... 14 11 39 Sullivan ..... 17 4 38 Melville .. ._ 15 3 33 Bradley 10 4 24 Rougire _. __ 9 6 24 Young 8 8 24 Sipple 6 3 15 McGuinness 5 1 11 McKenna ._ 4 10 Folger .... _ ... ? 5 9 Morgan — 3 3 9 Totals 92 52 236 JUNIOR VARSITY BASKETBALL The Quincy High Jay-Vees have com- pleted a good season, winning six of the eight games played. Here are the scores of each contest: Quincy J. V. 21 — 12 Milton Academy Seconds Quincy J. V. 13 — 18 Milton High Seconds Quincy J. V. 16 — 8 Milton High Seconds Quincy J. V. 26 — 16 Rockland High Seconds Quincy J. Y. 29 — 19 Central Junior High Quincy J. Y. 11 — 10 Quincy Point Junior High Quincy J. Y. 13 — 11 Braintree High Seconds Quincy J. Y. 21 — 23 Braintree High Seconds The following boys played on the team: McMahon, McArthur, Schultz, Petrie, Morgan, Sprague, Hackett, Carter, Nightingale, D. Moberg, Haynes, and Sass. INTERCLASS BASKETBALL The June, 1931, class certainly showed its superiority when both the girls’ and the boys’ teams “copped” the interclass titles. The June, 1931, girls subdued the February, 1931, girls, 23—5. The game was featured by the sharpshooting of “Billie” Clark, who gathered 20 points for her team. What an eye for the basket “Billie” has! Chris Messenger and Claire McDonald, the guards of the victors, kept Dot Sharkey and Ethel Halloran to 5 points, 3 of which were fouls. The lineups of each team were: June. 1931. Captain “Happy” Blowers, “Billie” Clark. Chickic” Reeves. Chris Messenger, Claire McDonald. Ruth Murphy, Adelaide Chapman, and Isabel Emslic. February, 1931. Captain Dot Sharkey. Dot McCarthy. Ethel Halloran. Ruby Dakcrs, Pat Craig, Dot Bedford. Helen Poland. Janet Heming- way. and Iris Gladwin. Coach Fleming Soccer George Clark Basketball Coach Kindness of the News' Coach Wilson Track ‘Doc” Whiting 42 THE GOLDEN-ROD The June, 1931, boys, as well as the February, 1932, team, survived the elim- ination tournament. These two teams played for the championship of the boys’ division. The game was entirely J.’31, and ended with that team in the van, 28—11. Winship and Petrie were the high scorers for the victors, and Haynes portrayed the same role for the losers. The lineups were as follows: June, 1931. Schutlz. McMahon. Smith, Petrie. Winship, Hussey, and Walker. February, 1932. Jepson. Wickham. Haines. Keene. Odom. Pyne, Anderson. Black, and Peterson. Though the boys’ game was more hody contested, the girls’ teams were much better looking. If “all’s well that ends well,” the June, 1931, class must be en- tirely satisfied. ROWING ON THE CHARLES Bert MacLeod, June, ’27 The M. I. T. boat house is a good mile and a half up the Charles River from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Its two outstretched floats are easily seen from the Cottage Farm Bridge. Two years ago nine fellows from all parts of the country were made into a freshman varsity crew. Not one of these nine fellows had ever been in a shell before in his life, and over half of them had never seen a crew race. All of these boys showed up when freshman crew candidates were called out to see what “crew was all about.” Interested in the novelty of rowing, this very green crew material entered into the competition and conscientiously tried to learn the rowing game. Now, rowing is not as easy as it looks. A racing shell is sixty feet long, and only a foot and a half wide. A craft of such extremely long lines is very hard to balance, especially when each fellow is sitting above the water line. Anyone who has had any experience with a canoe realizes the unsteadiness of the craft when one sits in any place but in the very bottom of the boat. A racing shell is five times longer and not one bit wider. Eight green oarsmen and a green coxswain had a fine time trying to manage a fourteen foot oar in a wiggley, wobbley boat!! Yet these totally inexperienced rowing enthusiasts worked at it persistently and made their freshman varsity boat. The first trip was to Princeton to row a mile- and-five-sixteenths-race (rowing’s short- est race), which at the last minute turned out to be a two mile affair, a totally different proposition, infinitely more gruelling. The time trial at Princeton, two days before the first race, was a trial never to be forgotten by nine particular fellows. For the first time in their lives they rowed for more than a mile and a half at a racing stroke. The race itself was lost by a large margin, over eight lengths. Each and every man in that freshman varsity boat, with the exception ot the “cox,” swore that he would never again go out for crew, once this year was over. A highly dejected crowd boarded the home going train on a very wet and dismal evening. Nevertheless, four of these boys made their varsity boat the very next year. The rowing bug had taken hold. They had learned to row,—at least, to some extent,—and the gruelling time trial at Princeton was never again to be wit- nessed. Races are won by smoothness, rhythm, and collective power. The indi- vidual, untrained “slugging” is what tires you out and gets you nowhere! The crew man uses every muscle in his body at ever} stroke. The row boat style of rowing on a fixed seat must be entirely put out of mind. The oarsman is fixed only at his feet; he sits on a rolling seat THE GOLDEN-ROD 43 which moves easily forward and back- ward on tracks two feet long. The tracks are pitched slightly forward, and allow the oarsman to draw up his legs like a grasshopper and stretch out his oar handle with his back bent forward and his knees under his armpits. From this forward position, the oar is dropped into the water, and the “catch” is in progress. The back is first called upon to drive the blade through the water. As soon as the oarsman has his weight back of the oar, he drives down with his legs. The arms themselves come into the picture by pull- ing the oar “home to the body.” The ooject is to whip the oar through,— whipping the hands to the body until the oar handle hits the chest where the ribs divide. The oarsman slides the length of the slide while his shoulders are at the same time describing an arc of a circle from the forward position to the final backward, nearly horizontal position. The all important catch and the well sustained “pull through” send the long, slender shell through the water. At the finish of the stroke, the oar is flipped out of the water (feathered) with a half circular motion of the wrist, flipping the hands down and away. The strongly pulled oar blade brings a gap in its wake which allows the oar to be flipped quickly out if the action is performed with light- ning like rapidity. The flipping out of the oar is accompanied with a turning of the blade, so that, when out of the water, it is parallel to the surface of the water. This flipping and turning of the oar is known as feathering. The pull through, the propelling part of the stroke as a whole, theoretically should consume but one quarter of the complete round trip. Noisy coxswains are heard to bellow the equivalent of four counts, with equal length to each count, one, two, three, four. The catch comes on the first count and the oars must be whipped through, and the oar feathered before the count of two. The question, now that the boat has been shot ahead, is to keep it going ahead. The “three” and “four” come as the crew cautiously “sneak” down their slides, enjoying a very brief rest and preparing themselves for the all important catch. Once this “four propor- tion” is lost, the crew starts rushing down on their slides which causes the boat to check badly. A checking boat, caused by a rushing, “slugging” crew, is generally a slow boat, getting nowhere in spite of the fact that each man is killing himself. Therefore, power alone does not make the crew. Power, of course, is necessary, but it must be backed by a co-ordination between each and every oarsman in the shell. The beautiful “poetry of motion” easily recognized in a well trained crew is a pleasant thing to watch, as eight oars- men swing back in perfect unison. Even as the crew as a whole must blend together, each individual must be taught to co-ordinate his own motion. The back, the legs, and the arms must be co- ordinated into perfect rhythm, while jerks and twists are ironed out by the ever alert coach. One more item in crew language has yet to be presented — that wicked, ferocious demon, the “crab.” The oars- man must ever be on the alert when flip- ping out his oar at the finish, for the least carelessness allows an ever ready wave to catch unsuspectingly at his oar and claim it for its very own. A racing shell is moving right along, and once the blade “knifes” into the water, it suddenly takes life and flies out of the boat until the blade is in a line parallel to the boat. A “crab” will flatten you out in short order, and lucky are you if you escape the handle of the oar. One Technology crew- man has gone completely out of the boat on the handle of his oar, when a moment’s carelessness or a bit of very rough water caused the “crab.” And still, in spite of the demon “crab,” rowing proves to be a wonderful sport. Its lack of personal glory, its world of healthy outdoor exercise, its thrilling spirit of rivalry in racing, its rhythmic swing, and its everlasting friendships, all make it most worthwhile. 44 THE GOLDEN-ROD •VCOtWt ' DISAPPEARING ACT Spaulding (reading): “Hark to the calm horn—balm horn—Psalm horn----” Miss Dawes: “Fade away with it.” ACCIDENTS DO HAPPEN On English paper: “Queen Victoria had nine children, and every one of the nine knew her mother well.” SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE: It takes great moral bravery to commit suicide. If you’d ever tried it yourself, you’d know. BURNING UP! Sentence: “The house is burning; shall I call the fire department?” Miss R.: “Would you use a period or a semi-colon in that case?” Quinn: “I’d use a bucket of water.” THAT’S SERVICE! A letter written by a Quincy High School student to the city hall read: “Dear Sir, Please send a copy of the birth-certificate of Mary Brown, born on Nov. 1, 1912, at 16 Mayflower Ave., New York City, N. Y., by return mail.” SECOND CHILDHOOD: Heard in English Class: “At the age of four, his grandfather died.” ODD SIGHTS Dot S: “I wouldn’t touch him with a ten foot pole.” Anna J : “Why not? What’s the matter with him?” Dot S: “Oh, nothing; only it would look so silly.” POST MORTEM There was a time in Quincy High When thumbing was the rage. But Mr. Collins’ voice is heard: He turns another page. Now ev’ry lad when going home Must walk the weary way; Who said the ladies are the ones Who always have to pay? Tnough shoes are wearing more and more. The edicts still remain. And o’er the hard, rough, rocky road The fallen arches pain. The time will come, when soles well worn, The homeward trooping bands Will all invert their walking modes And stagger on their hands. Or else they’ll earn- roller-skates And break each traffic rule; B’it for the nonce, they’ll thumb no more When coming home from school. Emme Tee, F.31. HOW SHOCKING! Did you hear about our soph that cracked so many nuts Christmas that he got shell shocked? ROOM 302 Chem. Prof: “You three boys report in this room after school and—Brown, I think you’d better join them.” One of the Happy Trio: “Hooray, now we’ll have a bridge foursome.” EMPLOY A SLICING MACHINE Miss Walsh (criticising a Christmas drawing): “. . . and I’d reduce those snowballs to snowflakes if I were you.” THE GOLDEN-ROD 45 CRASH! Cooper (to boy who is ruefully regard- ing the remains of his test tube on the floor): “What happened? Did you drop it?” SEEN ON A HISTORY TEST PAPER “Upon the tragic death of Macbeth, Roosevelt became president.” REVENGE IN REVERSE Revengeful: “I hope your children are all football players and run the wrong M rj Callij tl«« TAt. T.iVt'wj.l A «K« J -4 .. • } TvP.� t(� «. 0 � t lit P.l'Ct � . THIS MEANS YOU, SOPH! You’ll find yourself “Kicked out” of High School if 1. You wind your “Big Ben” in a study hall when students are trying to sleep. 2. You carry brief cases around bump- ing into people’s legs and noses going up and down stairs. 3. You cough when a Senior is speaking. 4. You refuse to help an upper classman out with his homework. 5. You don’t laugh heartily when a senior tells a joke. What if you don’t see through it! Laugh! 6. You study more than six hours at home. 7. You speak above a yell in the library. 8. You want classical music on the radio in the Auditorium when there’s good “Jazz.” 9. You don’t contribute jokes to the Golden Rod. 10. You don’t subscribe to the Golden Rod. T. N. HELEN OF TROY? Senior: “Where are you going?” Soph: “I’ve got to meet a guy near the wooden horse.” WE DIDN’T KNOW HE WORE ’EM! Miss Nevens (pointing to spindle on desk): “McPhail, did you put your slip on ?” COMICAL CONCLUSIONS In English Class: “I read a story about a boxer that had a funny ending.” DEAD TALK Bob: “Say, Bud; do you know how many people are dead in the Mt. Wollas- ton cemetery?” Bud: “No; I’ll bite. How many?” Bob: “Why, you sap, they’re all dead.” FOREIGN ANTICS Teacher: “John, use the word ‘Europe’ in a sentence.” John: “‘You’re up’ to your old tricks again, always calling on me.” UNIQUE Lost Soph: “What kind of Algebra is this?” Mr. Bridges: “Swedish.” A WISE CRACKER Article in Ledger: “The program will also include music by the cracked Quincy High band.” 46 THE GOLDEN-ROD OH, FOR AN ESCALATOR! Teddy Nye Weary students plod upstairs; As they do they say their prayers; In every heart, every mind A certain thought their feelings bind. I Oh for an escalator, A great gliding escalator; Oh for an escalator To carry us upstairs. To step upon an escalator, A long, winding escalator; To step upon an escalator And go from floor to floor. On and upward, step by step, Lacking more and more in pep. Thinking—dreaming of the day When they’ll go up another way. WHY NOT? Miss Dawes: “Finish the sentence, Tt you like to be useful, you’ll be happy’—” Pupil: “ ‘You’ll be happy in heaven.’” Miss Dawes: “Yes, but I didn’t expect you to come out in heaven.” PICTURE IT! Teacher: “What is guerrilla warfare?” Soph: “War in which men ride goril- las.” CHOP ’EM UP Junior: “Gee! I wish I went to a barber college.” Senior: “Why?” Junior: “So I could cut all my classes.” VARIETY Mr. Wilson (to Student): “What! late, as usual?” Stude: “No, later.” WHAT DO THE PLAYERS EAT, THEN? One of our sophs wants to know if football is known as the pigskin game because it has so many rooters. TATOOED LADY? On English paper: “She got her idea from an account her sister wrote on Jeanne of Arc.” r ? ? KIND ? ? r Miss Galleher (answering room tele- phone): “Who?—Oh, no! We haven’t any of that kind here!” ONE LONG HOP Miss Crockett: “Dorothy Barr is very anxious to get ‘Around the World on One Leg.’ ” SEEN OX HISTORY TEST PAPER Longfellow Is Speaker of the House of Representatives. SURE, BRING BROTHER FAIL ALONG Mr. Thomas (to boys who are com- municating) : “Report in this room at one-thirty without fail.” The Boys: “Who is Fail?” HELP, HELP! Miss Thompson (reading 6th period notice): “Lost, a black Parker Safety Pin.” SO THIS IS JAPAN! 6th period notice: “All pupils who take French are to go to the hall today at the beginning of the 5th period, occupying seats on the floor.” USE YOUR IMAGINATION Red: “Is my face dirty, or is it my imagination?” Sully: “Well, your face is clean.” THE GOLDEN-ROD 47 “BELIEVE IT OR NOT” Teddy Nye 1. One of our most prominent basket- ball stars uses perfume. 2. Miss Dawes has at last submitted to a heated class room. 3. One (at least) of our teachers blushes very profusely. 4. Mr. Ganley is not as dumb as he looks. (His own words.) 5. We’re going to beat Brockton in foot- ball next year. 6. Sully Sullivan’s chest has almost stopped expanding. 7. Mr. Millard’s fourth period law class has, with his permission, formed a leisure club. They elected officers, president, vice-president, etc. Its motto, “Never do homework.” 8. A dish was broken in the cafeteria, during a third period lunch, without any cheering afterward. 9. Miss Galleher excused a dumb French pupil from afternoon session once. 10. Mr. Ganley forgot his ers and ahs one day. 11. Jerry Gherardi talked to a pretty girl for only two minutes. NO EXCEPTIONS McKenna: “Do you serve crabs here?” Waiter: “Yes, sir; we serve everybody; sit right down.” NOT SO APPETIZING Waiter: “We have most everything on our menu, sir.” Mr. MacDonald: “So I see. Suppose you bring me a clean one.” I’S REGUSTED Teacher (calling the role): “Smith?” Smith: “Check and double check.” Teacher: “Why double check?” Smith: “I was absent yesterday.” WHERE’S EVE? Miss R (calling role): “Adams?” Miss W: “Who—Apple?” SHORTHAND EXPERT! Heard in Classroom: “I got a run in my stocking today and sewed it up in shorthand.” SOME GAG! Mrs. Jabber: “Doctor, my husband talks in his sleep. What can I do to help him?” Doctor: “Try letting him talk a little in the day time.” EXTRACTS FROM SONG HITS AND SHOWS In a mad fury she passionately burst out that she would “Break Away,” never more to see her “Vagabond Lover” again. Her reasons were few, but she said that she’d “Follow Through.” “No, No, Nannette,” he cried. Please don’t let this be the “Ropes End.” I’ll treat you to “Hot Chocolates” and what not. “Honey,” at least you will give me some reasons for this sudden, rash idea to “Carry On,” but before you begin to ex- plain I’ll “Turn on the Heat,” because I’m terribly cold and then we’ll have “Tea for Two.” She said that even though it was “Little by Little,” that he understood her, it would be all right as long as everything was clear in the end. So she explained. Even though you are “Naughty but Nice,” you don’t have to be “Mean to Me.” I’m not one of the “Gold Diggers of Broadway,” but still I can’t always be contented with your chanting “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love.” Some- times when we were “Outside” and I used to tell you to “Do, Do Something,” you wouldn’t even “Tip Toe Through the Tulips with Me.” After each quarrel, I 48 THE GOLDEN-ROD used to be “Painting the Clouds with Sunshine ’ thinking that it would be “Sunny Side Up” once more, but it was useless. Nights when we went out I kept telling you I wasn’t “Satisfied” with “One Sweet Kiss.” On the way home we’d have to “Cheer Each Other with the Pagan Love Song.” After you had brought me home, you’d stay until I had to tell you to “Get Out and Get Under the Moon,” and then you ask me “Am I Blue:” No wonder “I’m Moanin’ Low.” After she finished talking he said in a most vibrant voice, “Well, it’s up to you to decide because as you well know, ‘My Fate Is In Your Hands.’ Anyway, T May Be Wrong But I Think You’re Wonderful’ and no matter what happens ‘Some Sweet Day I’ll Call you Sweet- heart.’ If you will only point to me and say, ‘My Man,’ I am sure I’d then be ‘Singing in the Rain,’ ‘Singing in the Bathtub,’ or for that matter any place at all. We ought to stroll the land ‘To- gether’ and ‘Kiss and Make Up,’ so ‘Divine Lady’ ‘Can’t We Be Friends’?” “Well, ‘Oh Kay’,” she said, “Even though I have ‘Big City Blues,’ I know now ‘I’ll Always Be in Love With You,’ ‘My Sweeter Than Sweet.’ ” When looking upwards, he exclaimed, “Love Your Magic Spell is Everywhere.” Kathleen Hofferty, F.’31. FOILED! The other day, entering a study room late, and very unusual it was for him, too, Cooper heard the teacher say, “Betty, I believe you have a poem to read to the class.” The girl, only a sophomore, took her paper and began to read. Tell- ing me about it afterward, Cooper said, “The minute I heard her read the poem, I knew I had made a find. It was beauti- ful—simple, it is true, but yet beautiful in its simplicity. I saw myself congratu- lated by critics the nation over for uncov- ering a child prodigy. I rushed up to her immediately after the bell rang and said, mastering my excitement, “That’s a pretty good poem for a soph. Would you care to submit it to the Golden Rod?” “Oh! I’d love to,” she replied gladly. “Of course’ you know I didn’t write it, Amy Lowell did.” It took a quart of formaldemalde hydrine to bring Cooper to. HOPELESS STUDES Our dum’est Junior is a girl who thinks that when a fellow goes out on a stag party, he’s out shooting deer. Our most Brilliant Soph thinks a Southern Planter is an undertaker. Another Bright one thinks Zane Gray is a new color. And one of our Seniors thinks that a track meet is good to eat! “DEAD LINES” Here lies beside this little brook The bones of Shelby Sharp. He dozed while holding a Latin book, And woke up holding a harp. Dear, friends, when passing by this grave Your tears should drop in bunches, For this poor Soph thought he was brave When he took all three lunches. This poor fellow starved to death; He had third lunch. Fm told: And when his turn in line had come. All of the food was sold. When you pass by here, heave a sigh For Sophomore Philip Bost. On his first day in Quincy High The darling boy was lost. Here lie the remains of another Soph, In name Henry El Beero; His best girl said he had to be A gallant football hero. Of mourners there are quite a few For Sophomore Billy McSnook: After his outside reading was due. He started to look for a book. This Sophomore did not last long. His diet was far from right; He should have lived on “food for thought,” But instead had “dates” each night. “Long Tom,” J’32. TO BE BEEN AROUND QUINCY HIGH OY GERTRUDE 130RNE WALLY LUTTON-THE ONE WMOGAA b THE EAST SANlv- wich over your Shoulder IN T-HE CAfETERlA WILLIE IS ONE OF THOSE uttle sophs” and ts CiuiTe SENSITIVE ADOVT |T, GETTING ALL ORISTL.Y If ANYBODY REMINDS HIM OF IT. There we have the inseparable trio J •mARY M!NNl£ AND JOYCF. WHO JUST LOVE to Parade up and down the length of the CAfETERlA COMPEUlNG- THOSE WHO WANT TO Get by to ujalr deHind Flossie,Quite aviyacious VOUNO THING GETS A GREAT “kick Out of SKIPPING CLASSES (except when REPORTS OMf OvT). G_ KltPTO YERRiGHtT GROWLS MIlKe, THE TRAFFIC OFF lCf(V. KAUCe’S THUHOlS AV.SO A GREAT HELP IN AIDING Hifi TO GET Hone after HIS STREN- UOUS day AT SCHOOL. I vino here we have the playful rill, THE FIRST To RAISE THE HOwl wHtN SOMtCODy DROPS A YIILK GOTTLE |H me cafeteria strangely enough Gill tS hot a cheer, leader. PE ROYAL ALGERNON JR STARTED THE FAD OF CULTI- VATING DOWNY MOUSTACHES AND IS NOT AT ALL DAUNTED GY THE FACT HIS HAIR 3 RE 0. HERE IS PRlSSlE SMITH, WHO ALWAYS DOES HER HOME- WORK AND FEELS ANYTHING I3UT RESPECT FOR THOSE WHO 0ONT 50 THE GOLDEN-ROD WHEN TO BE NONCHALANT 1. After dropping a plate, milk bottle, etc., in the cafeteria. 2. When you’re caught trying to quietly return an overnight book two days late. 3. When Miss McCarthy sees you sitting in the same seat with a member of the opposite sex. 4. When, in complying with the essentials of school spirit, you drop a fifty cent piece in the wastebasket along with the Milky Way wrapper. SPEAKEASY Breathless, with eyes dilating, he rushes up the broad, quiet stairs. An orderly gives him a reproving stare, but he is too tense even to notice it. He hurries along the deep corridor to the door of a large room. On the wall beside the door are the latest bulletins and re- ports. These the young man gives a swift, cursory glance, but not finding what is of paramount interest he turns again to the door, pacing up and down before it worriedly, torn with anxiety, fraught with fear. He mutters distract- edly to himself. At irregular intervals, young girls, looking like anything but nurses, pass him by, glancing at him com- passionately. Long years spent here have inured them to this. From inside the room low pitched, grave voices are heard murmuring. And then suddenly a quick shrill laugh with an hysterical quality, suppressed, and followed by more low words. The ensuing quiet is oppressive in its heavy stillness. Unable to stand it any longer, the young man moves as though to open the door. Then, abashed by his own au- dacity, turns back. At this juncture the door swings open from the inside, closes again, and a woman of perhaps thirty- five, spotless in attire, stands in the cor- ridor, looking at him with that inscrut- able expression peculiar to the profession. The man is beside himself with anguish. “Is there—is there any hope?” he gasps. “Don’t look like that, please. Say there is, speak, say something!” The woman shakes her head slowly. “I’m sorry. We can do nothing. You know that library slips must be taken before school.” S’A HABIT Teacher (to student who has been late often): “When were you born?” Stude: “The second of April.” Teacher: “Late again.” COLD FACTS Teacher: “Is Detroit the third city of the U. S.?” Pupil: “Do, id’s da Ford cidy.” OPINIONS Pupil: “Miss D, what do you think of this theme? Give me your honest opinion.” Miss D: “It isn’t worth anything.” Pupil: “I know, but tell me anyway.” MEANIN’r Soph: “A fool can ask more questions than a wise man can answer. Isn’t that so?” Senior: “I cannot answer you.” A STAR IDEA Senior: “Did you hear about the Scotchman who wanted to kill himself with a gun?” Junior: “Tell us about it.” Senior: “He took all the bullets out of the gun and hit himself over the head with it.” 'PUSHING TO THE FRONT THE GOLDEN-ROD 51 ECONOMICAL Junior: “There goes one of our most notorious seniors.” Soph: “Oh, Yeah? He’s Scotch, isn’t he?” Junior: “I’ll say he is! When he first came here he changed his name from Vincent to Vin to save a cent.” STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! If you “aim to please,” “make it a habit” to read Golden Rod. You know “It’s the flavor that counts.” WHAT THE WELL-DRESSED WOMAN WILL READ Speaking of animals—“I’d walk a mile for a camel”—if “The Chief of the Sixes” wasn’t running (not for president). But, then, have you ever tried eating fried Jelly Fish? “There’s not a Cough in a Carload.” “Believe it or Not.” When I went hunting Dinosaurs, do you know how I could tell they were around? Well, “A headache was my warning signal.” Oh, I say! A couple of years ago my favorite sport was jumping off the top of the Woolworth building, and let me tell you, it was “Good to the last drop,” but by that time the building had reached its full height and—well—it was ‘Time to Retire.” For a time I studied science, to try to find some way to kill elephants by tickling them. (“Make this test with the Fuller Radiator Brush.”) I lined the brutes up, and made one great sweep, “Powered by the Pikes Peak Motor,” with the brush, and—I killed “3 in 1.” Fancy that! I tried being a deep sea diver (“Stop a cough quickly”), until one day they put a fellow at the winch that I didn’t think capable, so I deter- mined to stay down “it’s easy start- ing,” at the bottom of the sea till they put “The Imperial” to work. I looked around, and there was a whale “Ready to serve.” (“An Asset to your community.”) Well, I put my arms around it (“It has the skin you love to touch”) and “just whistled,” ’till they put another man at the winch. You see “It pays to insist if you want the best.” You know, I used to lassoo cannibals in Africa, too. One day I met one and yelled, “It’s toasted!” He had a friend with him, and said to him, “How about an appetizer?” I said, if you’re hungry “Uneeda Biscuit,” and the blackest one said, “Takhoma Bis- cuit.” I insisted I wasn’t a biscuit, but all they’d say was, “Why men leave home?” I said I was trying to “Keep that school girl complexion.” Then I thought of bribing them, and yelled— I’ve got so much money, “It chases dirt!” Who said “It pays to advertise”?! They almost tore me apart. They got my money and started fighting for it. I ran away. “What a whale of a differ- ence a few cents make!” I used to go courting my girl in my “Service car.” You know her type, “Not too rich, not too sweet—but just exactly right!” but,— I decided to “Graduate to Camels.” Well, when I get through with my hair raising escapades, I go home and play with a flock of kitten. Of course “They’re mild, but they satisfy.” Teddy Nye, J.’30. IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE Junior: “Gee, I wish I went to a bar- ber College. Senior: “Why?” Junior: “So I could cut all my classes.” Stop! Stnio 'p «rvnt X Off H«. Fi..R, A'x-JVt Junto� :' ! Di J ) w «•«pec't if K fto R «-l� f TAr.„C k ? BRYANT STRATTON COMMERCIAL SCHOOL FACTS 1. LOCATION at the Arlington Street Station of the Subway, cor. of Boylston and Arlington Streets, opposite Public Gardens. Easily and safely accessible from all points either by Surface or Subway. 2. BUiLDING erected especially for this School, and with the exception of the ground floor, used exclusively Ly the School. Unsurpassed in convenient con- struction and equipment for the purposes of Commercial Training. 3. COURSES which fit both High School and College Graduates to meet the demands of Modern Business; opening the way for rapid advancement to Executive Positions. 4. FACULTY of capable and experienced Inductors, who by individual attention and interest enable students to attain Satisfactory Results in their studies. 5. 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