Bromfield High School - Beacon Yearbook (Harvard, MA)

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W- pw 1-- E UBrnm? i el.cl Be acaonn Nourse's History of Harvard tells us: Oak Hill is the highest point of land in Harvard, six hundred and thirty feet above the sea. On clear days the View eastward is bounded only by the ocean. This quotation explains both the location of the Harvard University Observatory and the fire tower which offers a view for many miles. The road following the crest of this hill may well have had its origin in the trail made by Indians traveling from their hunting grounds on Bare Hill to the plains of Littleton and to the trading posts of the Merrimac River. The Town Hill is a continuuation of Pin Hill. With its peaceful Com- mon surrounded by typical New England homes, it may have been chosen for the Town Center not only because it was the exact center of the town, but because it offered an unobstructed view over the valleys. The watch- ful eyes of the early settlers on their way to the Meeting House could easily see signs of approaching danger. Yes, the hills of Harvard can tell us many stories of bygone days. When we ourselves have become a part of the past, they will still be stand- ing, a sturdy reminder of a long and interesting history. M. Jean Ford THE GREATEST TEAM OF ALL Baseball leagues started in the year 1900 when the club owners got together and decided to form two leagues, one to be called the National and the other to be called the American League. The American League was to be made up of teams from Boston, New York, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Washington. From 1900 to 1914 there was one ball club that could not be beaten, the Philadelphia Athletics. They had a million dollar infield which had to be broken up before there could be any competition between ball clubs. The New York Yankees had a fast moving ball club but could not compete with Philadelphia. From the year 1914 to 1918 there was a World War going on and baseball was not so popular since a good many ballplayers had gone to war. But the people did not lose sight of baseball, and after the war, interest in the sport grew rapidly. In January 1920, the Yankees bought a young ballplayer from Boston in a trade. He was to become one of the immortals of baseball. This was the start of the career of the well-known player, Babe Ruth. Now the Yankee ball team was made up of Ruth, Gehrig, Dickey, Lazzeri, Hoyt, Combs, Meusel, Shawky, and Huggins. The New York Yankees started out with high hopes in their batting line-up, nicknamed Murderers' Row . The line-up was as follows: Bill Dickey, Tony Lazzeri, Babe Ruth, and Lou Gehrig. The pitchers of oppos- ing teams must pitch to the Babe, for if they walked him, they would face Page Twenty-three

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ilgarnms z eta Be aicon U3 There is a great future for many young men in the automobile business and there are a great many fields to enter. There is the salesman who sells the car. It is up to him to make sure you get what you want as far as color and style go. This is a high paying job, but the hours are endless. The mechanic must tell you what is wrong with your car. He keeps it running smoothly. This job requires a detailed knowledge of all makes of cars. Some mechanics specialize in one make of car or even in one special part like the transmission. Thus some garages have a transmission-man or a motor- tune-up man. These are just a few of the fields open in the automobile industry to the young men of today. Paul R. Curley THE FIVE HILLS OF HARVARD Strangers who see Harvard for the first time are impressed with the beauty'of its hills. Perhaps they do not realize the part that these hills have played in the history of the town. It was over these hills that the Indians followed their trails, keeping always on the high ground. Such trails became so worn and well marked that the white settlers naturally used them until they became the roads and highways of today. It was from such high points that the tribes sent their smoke messages over the countryside. The hills of Harvard are part of the Wataquadock chain which extends westward through Bolton and Berlin towards Worcester. Each hill had its own special interest and beauty. The most beautiful and most widely known is Makamacheckamuck now called Prospect Hill. Command- ing the Nashua Valley, what a part it must have played in the years long past! How many war parties assembled there and searched the far-off hills of Shirley and Lancaster for signs of the enemy, or perhaps watched the enemy gliding down the river unaware of the look-out on the heights above? At a later date Prospect Hill was to see the trial and failure of the experiment of Bronson Alcott and his associates at Fruitlands, now the site of the most interesting museums of our countryside. The shrill whistle of the locomotive in the valley and the boom of guns of Fort Devens have replaced the piercing war cry of the Indians. From the Pin Hill quarries came the slate used in great quantities in local cemeteries and buildings. Today the abandoned quarries on the bleak hill top are only a memorial of earlier days. Bare Hill, holding within the circle of its reach the pond known as Bare Hill Pond, provided a fine hunting and fishing ground for the Indians. It was originally called the Bare Hill because it was the custom of the Indians to set a fire around their villages in November: the fire swept through the woodlands and destroyed the underbrush leaving the hill bare. In that way the land was prepared for the rich dairy farms of Bare Hill - which later gave way to the famous Harvard peach and apple orchards of the present time. Page Twenty-two

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Brom? i el.cl Beacon Lou Gehrig at the plate as clean-up batter. At this time, Lou and the Babe were equally dangerous at bat. In 1920 the Yankees won the pennant but could not seem to repeat their success in 1921. When 1922 rolled around they made a very good start by winning many of their games in the early part of the season. They found that they were drawing such large crowds that their ball field was proving inadequate. Now they spent a large sum of money and built the Yankee Stadium which was called the house that Ruth built . The box receipts collected the first year that Babe Ruth played for the Yankees were used to build this stadium. The ball team enjoyed another great year in 1923. In 1924, 1925, 1926, the Yankees were in a slight slump. They ended up in fifth place in 1924 and in third place in 1925. When the year 1926 came, they climbed out of their slump and won the pennant but lost the World Series to St. Louis when St. Louis won four out of six games. The 1927 baseball season found the Yankees with a very good ball club. The season was a long one, but Babe Ruth now playing the outfield was making up for the bad year he had had in 1925. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were the hope of that 1927 team. The Babe and Lou had had a run contest throughout the season and they were close until the last few weeks of the World Series, when the Babe hit seven more homers and ended the series with sixty home-runs to Lou's forty-seven. Lou Gehrig ended the season with 174 runs to his credit while the Babe had batted in 152 runs. Each team plays one hundred and fifty-two games in a year, the Yankees won 110 of them to win the pennant. They played the Pittsburgh Ball Club in the World Series and won six games in succession. Until this day there has been only one ball club which has earned the enviable title, The Greatest of Them All - the 1927 Yankees. John Henrickson -i-1 ARCHITECTURE Ever since the time of the primitive man who lived in a cave and ate raw meat, we have tried to improve our living conditions. The first homes were only caves and trees in which man went for shelter and protection. Down through the ages great strides have been made in the field of build- ing. We have gone from the primitive caves and medieval huts and manors to our modern homes with all the conveniences of our day. In this present age the construction of homes, buildings, and bridges is of the utmost im- portance to our every day life. The building industry, second only to agriculture and the food indus- tries in terms of money expended and employment provided, lacks only an adequate supply of building materials and labor before launching upon the largest program of construction in all history. In carrying out this great program, the building industry looks to the profession of architecture for Page Twenty-four