Milford High School - Oak Lily and Ivy Yearbook (Milford, MA)

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Yol. I. MILFORD, MASS., APRIL, 1885. No. 6. The Scholar’s Lament. With brain so heavy and tired, With forehead all in a frown, A scholar sat in nnscholarly mood Trying his troubles to drown. Grind, grind, grind. In anger, scorn and disgust. And now, with a groan from a sorely tried mind, He sang of lessons unjust. Cram, cram, cram. With brain that with fever is fired. Cram, cram, cram. With eyes that are drooping and tired. French and Latin and Greek, Greek and Latin and French. Till out of the pages so hated and dull The English he scarcely can wrench. O, ye, with sons so bright! O, ye, with daughters dear! Not only health you’re injuring. But brain and conscience clear. Dig, dig, dig,— We covet the highest place. We gain it. What then? We’re too weai ' y and worn To wear e’en our honors with grace. The scholar has failed in three recitations and life seems hut an empty dream. Direct cause—dancing from eight to two, refreslnnents at midnight. 3BZ. History of the High School. Our school was established in 1850. For some time before this, the ques¬ tion of such an institution liad agita¬ ted the minds of the jteojile. While the friends of education were anxious to give the cliildren of Milford an oppor¬ tunity of continuing their studies be¬ yond tlie schools then in existence, many o])l)Osed this movement from dread of the exjiense that would nec¬ essarily be incurred, and on account of the difficult y that those living at a distance would experience in attend¬ ing a school located in the centre of the town. In September, 1848, the town ap- jiointed a committee of five to inves¬ tigate the matter and rejiort what course was best to juirsne. After careful consideration of the subject, they agreed that it was for the inter¬ est of the town to establish a high school, and the town acccjited their rejiort. No sooner Avas the main question decided than discussions arose in re¬ gard to the location of the -school. At last a site, which does credit to the good judgment of those who selected it, was chosen, and the building be¬ gan. .Standing on rising ground, somewhat back from the street, the house looks down upon a grassy lawn in front, while the park in the rear makes a beautiful playground in suminer. The cost, aside from the land purchased for the site, was nearly six thousand dollars. On the twelftli of November, 1850, the school ojiened with Rev. Elias Nason as principal and S. Adelaide Scott as assistant. As the building Avas more than large enough to accommodate all those who attended, the school committee projiosed that the lower room be oc¬ cupied by a grammar school. This suggestion Avas followed until the in¬ creasing nmnber of j)u])ils required the removal of the grammar de])art- ment. The committee also recom¬ mended in 1851: “That the school committee be authoriy.ed to expend for such ajipara- tus as they may think necessary for the use of the high school, so much of the $1500 raised for the siqiport of said school as may not be required to defray the current expenses during the ])resent year.” This was the nest- egg from Avhich has gradually groAvn our ])resent goodly store including aj)- paratus, books and geological s})eci- mens. During the thirty-five years of its existence, the school has been under the control of twelve different princi¬ pals and tAventy-three assistants. There Avas but one assistant until 1805, Avhen the nurnliei- Avas increased to tAvo. In 1880,the school was so large that it Avas deemed best to employ the services of a sub-master, and this year another assistant has been added to the corps of teachers. The class of ’62, consisting of five members, Avas the first that ever regu¬ larly graduated with a diploma. Since then the • number of graduates has increased until last year thirty piqiils completed the four years’ and 11 the tAvo years’ course. The alumni now number 485 graduates. For some time before anv action « Avas taken in the matter, it Avas evi¬ dent that either a neAV 5chool-house must be built or the old one enlarged, as the building intended for seventy- five pupils Avas croAvded with one hun¬ dred and fifty. At a town meeting held in April, 1881, it Avas A ' oted to raise $4000 for its enlargement, and the Avork Avas performed in the sum¬ mer vacation. This Avas a timely act, for the size of the school ra|)idly in¬ creased, reaching the unexpected number of one hundred and ninety- six. ' There are in the building, as it is noAV arranged, two large study rooms, one on each floor. From the rear of each open two smaller rooms, three used for recitation, one as a chemical laboratory. Ye have all the modern conveniences, Avater, steam, gas and good ventilation. During the last fcAv years, the upper school-room has been beautified through the generosity of dejiarting classes u n¬ til now it presents a far different as¬ pect from Avhat it did on that Novem- lier day so many years ago. These gifts are better enjoyed by the schol¬ ars Avho remain than if they had been given by persons not connected Avith the school, and are a source of pride and ])leasure to the donors themselves, whenever they visit the scenes of their school-days. The class of ’85 liaA ' e already made their gift to the school, as the imjiroved appearance of the walls and ceiling of the upper rooms indicates. [Continued on third page.]

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Mlnfcriitlrj. A Very Complete Assorfmenf, of All Varieties, at XjO ATEST BOSTOIT J.. ALLEN JIICLJ, 11© -N n A T -KT ST ' ISEEJ ' X’, SIT FOR Y O UR AT lOO MAIN STREET, MILFORD, AT E. L. WILLIS’. BTJY YOUrE. DRY MODS AND SMALL WARES AT 166 MAIN STREET, OF COBURN OLMSTEAD. BUY YOUR • EAISINS, CURRANTS AND CITR0N - AT THE BOSTON GROCERY AND TEA HOUSE. G. F. WINCH, Proprietor. Choice Drugs Pure Medicines AT MUSIC HALL DRUG STORE. SOLE AGENT FOR MORSE’S ASPARAGUS KIDNEY CURE, MORSE’S DYSPEPSIA CURE. IX. E. IXOIiC3-A.3sr. C. F. WIG-HT, TUNER AND REPAIRER nw) opg N?,- - Washington Block, Milford. Church Organ tuning a Specialty. Stamping Rooms. Goods of all kinds furnislied and stamped by the non-erasable metliod. SILK, CREWELS AND FLOSS Furnished for the different designs. Goods sent by mail to any addi ' ess. MRS. R. AYLWARD, Grant Block, up stairs, Milford. GEORGE G. PARKER, ATTORNEY Counsellor at Law, No. 2 Washington Block, Milford, Everett Cheney, NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, TOYS, ETC. Headquarters for Boston Daily and Sunday Papers. 136 Main street, Milford. S BEST OF COAL AND LUMBER FOK THE LEAST MONEY OF FIELD BROTHERS. Telephone at L. H. Cook’s oflice. SCISSORS ' “Active shears gather no rust.” IVe desire to exchange witli all School papers. I lo not ivaiit to Le a doctor and live by men’s diseases, nor a minister to live by tlieir sins, nor a lawyer and live by their quarrels ; so I don’t see that there is aiivtliini); left but for me to be an author. IIow would yon like, some day, to see a whole shelf full of books written by your son, with ' ■‘Hawthorne’s AVorks” } rinted on the backs?—[Hawthorne at the age of sixteen. “1 don’t know why,” a Freshman bold To liis waggisli chum once said, “It is a fact when I catch a cold, It settles in my head.” His chum’s reply was very clear ; “A cold, whether light or not. By a well-known law in medics, my dear. Always goes to the weakest spot.” “Hoes my question embarrass yon?” “NTot at all, sir,” rej)lied the student. “Not at all. It is quite clear. It is the answer that bothers me.” The “Mother Hubhard” is of such frightful mien, That to be bated needs but to be seen. But wlien surmounted by a pretty face, ■ V ' e first endure, then pity, then embrace. Mr. M.—, reading Vergil—“Three times I strove to cast my arms about her neck, and — That’s got. Professor.” “Well, think that was quite far [Wooster Collegian. as far as Mr. M.—, enough “What would you do, if you tvere I and I were you ?” he tenderly queried of a sensible school-girl whom he tvas escorting home from church, not many moons since. “Well,” said she, “if I were you I should throw away that vile cigarette, cut up my cane for fire-wood, wear my tvatch chain underneath my coat, and stay at home nights and iiray for brains.” “What is a house without a baby?” asks a lady Avi’iter ; and an old bache¬ lor editor replied—“It is comparative¬ ly quiet.” The pvoj)rietor of a Maine shoe store advertises in one of our exchanges, “ Difficult Eeet a Specialty.” We think a fev ' of the Vergil class had bet¬ ter emigrate thither. Exchanges received since our last issue : Academian, Academy Echo, Album. Ar- clion, Oarsonian, Censor, Deaf rdnte, Eclipse, Hamilton College Monthly, High School News, .High School Bulletin, Kent’s Hill Breeze, Messenger, Occident, Fhilosophian Review, Phi-Rhonian, P. M. I. Cadet, School¬ mate, Spy, Trinity School Record, Xavier. A START IN LIFE FOR YOUNG MEN • Is an Important Problem in Every Home. Self-Support is essential in manhood, Self-Reliance a strong; defense. o MORE THAN 3 3,000 OF TJIE Prosperous Business Meii of To-Day WERE TRAINED For Active, Useful Business Life AT Eastman College, Poughkeepsie, N, Y. For Twenty-Five Years it has been the most popular and Largest Private School in America. It is to-day the only institution devoted to the specialty of teaching Young and Middle-Aged Men how to get a living, make money, and become enterprising, in¬ dustrious, useful citizens. It is the ONLY SCHOOL in the world where the course of study is pra(;tical, instead of Theoretical; where the students act as Buy¬ ers, Sellers, Traders, Bankers, Bookkeepers and Accountants in actuai. business oper¬ ations; where the ' Bank Bills, Fractional Currency and lerchandlse are actuai.ey USED, and have a real value, and every transaction is just as legitimate and bona fide as in any Mercantile, Banking or Busi¬ ness House. TOTAL EXl ENSES. Board, Tuition Fee and Stationery for the prescribed business course of three months, §100 to .$11.5. Applicants may enter any week-day in the year. The illustrated Catalogue Giving full information in regard to course of study, time required, expenses, etc., will he mailed on receijit of three letter stanijis. Prospectus giving terms and a synopsis of the course of study, mailed free. Address EASTMAN COLLEGE, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. DR. GEO. P. COOKE, Surgeon Dentist, A T 168 Main Street, Milford. MILFORD-l-GRANITE ! COMPANY, Building and Monumental Work Gf ill! kiiuls executeil with liosi.iitch. This Granite is pronoimceil the best in the state. Does not chanste its color, ami is free from iron. Samiilos furnislied on aiiplication. JCstiinatcs made on work in any part of the country. Fred SwAsKY, Agt. J. B. BAXcitoFr, Treas. CLAFLIN tt THAYER, Manufacturers of CALF AND KIP BOOTS, Bo.ston Ottice, !I0 I’earl street. New York ottice, A. Clatlin Co., 110 Churclt St.

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O JL F}IEv07IK,vIimY|iYY. Published INIoiithly During the School Year, HV The Senior Class of the Milford High School, PRINTED BY G. M. BILLINGS. GENERAL EDITORS. INEZ L. GAY and CLARENCE II. MORGAN. PERSONAL EDITORS. HARRIET A. SMITH and HORACE A. BROWN. LOC.AL EDITORS. ANNA M. IVALKER and ROBERT C. HUSSEY. BUSINESS EDITORS. THERESA A. McCARTEN and HARRY P. CROSBY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. (Eight Numbers.) For the Year, . 35 cents | Single Copies, . 5 cents This paper is for sale at the well-known drug store of J. Allen Rice, where subscriptions for the year will also be received. Address all communications to THE OAK, LILY AND IVY, Box 871. Our Pictures. When we entered the liigh school, almost four years ago, the only deco¬ ration of the walls of the large room consisted of the pictures of three for¬ mer ])rincipals. Today we boast of twenty-three jiictnres, all tastefully framed. Among them are those of some of the most famous American authors, including the seven Atlantic writers. Holmes, Lowell, Whittier, Longfellow, Emerson, Bryant and Ha ' wthorne. Others beside literary men look down upon us and encourage us to jierform our duty. The pictures of Garfield and Lincoln are placed over the en¬ trance-doors, ivhile that of Washing¬ ton, between them, to wers above the rest, giving the idea that he has at¬ tained a height no other can reach. Ilecently two pictures especially ap¬ propriate to a scliool-room have been purchased, those of Agassiz, the teach¬ er, and Mann, the educator. To these that of Gen. Eaton, U. S. Commission¬ er of Education, has been added by a Boston friend. Mr. Hill, the tenth principal, has lately presented us a half life-sized ))hotograph of himself, which G. M. Billings, ’bO, has framed. If any other of the formerprincipals feels inclined to do likewise, there is no need of his good intention remaining unftdfilled for want of room. The smiling faces of the class of ’8 2 adorn our walls, and recall to us the time when ive regarded them with so much awe because they ivere in the senior class. Now all is changed. We oursel es are seniors, but whether we are regarded with much awe is a doubt- ful question. We are so fortunate as to possess three classical pictures, the scenes of which are laid in Borne. These oimbt O to be of benefit to the history and Latin classes, for they give a much bet¬ ter idea of Roman life than mere words can. We have also a grouj) of the leading journalists of the country MUth the papers that they reiiresent. Many of our pictures are class gifts and have on the frame in gilt letters the name of the class donating them, others have been purchased with money raised by the scholars, while we owe a few to the kindness of peojile not con¬ nected with the school. We feel rath¬ er ])roud of our collection and hope to add to it from time to time. The homes of too many children are devoid of all beauty, for us not to make the school-room as inviting as possible, in order that at least a few hours of each day may be jiassed in pleasant surroundings. Our pictures, together with the handsome clock given by the class of ’84, serve to make the room attractive, and at the same time the noble men represented on our walls set before the scholars examples that they will do well to follow. We wish to express our thanks to the treasurer and agent of the Milford Granite Company for a beautiful spec¬ imen of the rock they quarry. It is a six-inch cube with one natural and five finished surfaces. One face is fin¬ ished as an eight-inch and another as a ten-inch cut; the third is pointed with a marginal line and the fourth, rock face with a marginal line ; while the fifth is jiolished. It is, therefore, an object lesson for us in stone cutting as ivell as a specimen for our valuable geolog¬ ical cabinet. We are also indebted to Zibeon C. Field for remembering us during his re¬ cent trip to California. Upon his re¬ turn we received a 15 inch sugar-pine cone from a tree 200 feet high and 11 in diameter; also a box containing agates, bed-rock, quartz,salt deposit,pet¬ rified Avood and varieties of Rutland marble. For two of the special jirizes, Gray’s Elegy and Schiller’s Song of the Bell, the recipients are indebted to Mary E. Cochnin, ’73, and for two others. Feather and Fur, and Oliver Wendell Holmes’ Poems, to Mrs. Henry E. Morgan. We know that we ought and have every reason “gratiam habere” for countless favors at this time, and now we desire “gratias agere” with the hope that in the future we may be able “gratiam referre” and perhaps “crratiam reddere.” O Eutered at tlie Milford, Mass., Post-Office, as second class matter. N. B. It is our intention to furnish our patrons, however, with a better and higher than second class. AT Currier Kendall’s We have just received a full stock of Men’s, Youth’s and Boys’ HOBBY SUITS! At Prices Lower than ever before. Remember, we give you an all wool, black or brown. Corkscrew Pattern Suit for the wonderfully low price of CALL FOR THE IDEAL” HAT The Latest Style for Spring Tf ' ear. O ' CJii stock; o:p •=i-NECK WEAR ' S Is complete, including the Novelties of the Season. C3-E3SrTS POE, F. C’s Collars and Cuffs. -A.XiSO EIGHMIE SHIRT The best white shirt in the market. We mention but a few of the many leading articles found in our large sto ck. Call and See for Yourselves. CURRIER KENDALL, One Price Clothiers of Milford.