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

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O -A. IC l ' fIEv0 K,vmiiY|IYY. Published Monthly During the School Year, nv The Senior Class of the Milford High School. PRINTED BY G. M. BILLINGS. GENEK. I. EPITOISS. INEZ L. GAY ami CLARENCE II. MORGAN. PE11SON.A.E EDITORS. H.4.RRIET A. SMITH and HORACE A. BROWN. LOCAL EDITORS. ANNA IM. WALKER and ROBERT C. HUSSEY. BUSINESS EDITORS. THERESA A. McCARTEN and HARRY P. CROSBY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. (Eight Numbers.) For the Year, . 35 cents | Single Copies, . 6 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. Entered at the Milford, Dlass., Post-Ollice, as second class matter. N. B. It is our intention to furnish our patrons, however, with a better and hiqher than second class. Editorial. We are happy to announce tli.at the O. L. and I’s accounts on both the credit and deiiit side are balanced. W e owe no one and no one owes us ;— that is to say, as far as money is con¬ cerned; but for good will and kind assistance we feel deeply indebted to all advertisers and subscribers who have enabled us to donate to the school a $90 present as a remembrance of the happy days of the past four years. The paper fund contribution was so liberal this term that we had a suf¬ ficient sur])lus to buy and frame a picture of the Three Fates. The old ladies, Clotho with her spindle and open mouth, Lachesis with measur¬ ing thumb and thoughtful face, and Atro])os with sheep shears and inquir¬ ing face, look down upon the for, fari, fatum of the Latin classes. Principal Lull briefly explained to the Classical and High School teach¬ ers at their last meeting the cause, method and result of our industrial work. Several letters have been re¬ ceived from distant parts of the coun¬ try asking for information in regard to it and ex])ressing a -wish to attempt something similar. A bank certificate of $149 repre¬ sents the jirofits of our exhibition. We do not jiropose to hoard it, but it will be S])ent at once for the good of the school. Query :—“Will next year’s scholars see the sunny faces of the class of ’85 loooking down at them from the wall?” We desire to acknovdedfre with O thanks the congratulatory letter re- cei ' ed from Edwin Cheney since our last issue. We find our columns too crowded to allow its insertion, but it is jileasant to know that both our head and hand work are appreciated by the citizens of Milford. Does it pay ? Eight weeks of worry and fret; essay written and re-written and written yet once again ; rehearsals before school, after school, on Satur¬ days, in our dreams; the mercury standing on tip-toe trying to push the roof off its tubular house; and all for what?-a short five minutes on the Opera House stage, and then- oblivion. (’olumbus first saw the American Continent, St. Augustine was founded, the Mayflower landed her passengers at Plymouth Ivock, George Washing¬ ton was born, the battle of Bunker Hill was fought and Y orktown sur¬ rendered on hangman’s day. What an unlucky day is Friday ! Married. In the Church of the Laboratory, in the presence of the parents and friends of the hajipy pair, Mr. Lightweight Hydrogen, only son of Hon. H O. Water-producer and Miss Astringent Chlorine, daughter of Dr. Bleacher, the Disinfector. The bride was charming in her lovely yel¬ lowish-green silk, which was highly perfumed. The ceremony was jier- formed by Rev. Omnipotent Sunlight at mid-day. The union caused a sen¬ sation that shook the building and the spectators v ere glad that they had observed the directions of the usher and taken the back seats. John Harvard. Rev. George E. Ellis (H. C. 1833) says: “A. secrecy and silence as yet unpenetrated and unvoiced cover the whole life history, in the mother country, of him who planted learning in the New England wilderness. We know neither his birth-time, nor birth¬ place, nor lineage, nor parentage. Ilis name appeai-s on the entry book at Emmanuel Col¬ lege, Cambridge, in 1628. He was matricu¬ lated there as pensioner,—that is, one who can pay his own charges,—July 7,1631. The signature for his bachelor’s degree is dated 1631, and that for his master’s degree, 1635. There all we know of John Harvard in Eng¬ land stops.” A guinea for each word, or a hun¬ dred dollars for each of five lines, of information about John Harvard in England, have been offered, and in ad¬ dition the graduates of Harvard Col¬ lege projiose to raise a fund to secure the services of the eminent American Antiquary, Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters (class of 1855), now in England, to make a thorough search there. Not a Graduate. Ella J. Newton, ’08, has been teach¬ ing a young ladies’ seminary in Foo- Chow, China, for the last five years. The young ladies are all Chinese. Harry C. Smith, ’72, is a jihoto- grapher in the emjiloy of Richardson tfe Harrington, photograjihers, Tremont street, Boston, Mass. Charles H. Fisher, ’82, is clerk in G. T. Fales Co’s dry goods store. Minnie Aylward, ’82, is teacliing school in Medway. Arthur W. Vant, ’82, English, is employed in Rice’s drug store. Walter A. Vant, ’83, English, is in Willis’ photograph gallery. Martin Foley, ’83, is working in Worthen’s market. Ida M. Bradley, ’84, English, is en¬ gaged to sing in the quartette at the Methodist church this year. Charles Gillon, ’85, is attending Holy Cross College, W orcester. Nellie Partridge, ’86, was married a short time ago to Henry Weeks. Robert E. I. Ellsbree, ’84, English, died Wednesday, April 30. His own class,the four years’ class of’86, of which the two years’ class of ’84 was a part, and the teachers, contributed a beauti¬ ful pillow with a suitable inscription and attended the funeral in a body on the following Sunday. The following is from the eleventh px’incipal of our school: Hudson, Mass., M.vrcii 31, 1885. Editors of the Oak, Lily and Ivy: Your acceptable paper, telling of the pro¬ gress of the pupils ami school I love, has been read with pleasure. Y our Industrial Exhibition I especially commend, enabling each pupil to compare his own industrial skill with each of the oth¬ ers, and by comparison widening his range of ideas and stimulating to higher excel¬ lence. Education will be one-sided, unbal¬ anced, till manual and mental training go hand in hand together. It is a long way from the brain down the arm, througli the hand and fingers to the mind’s ideal in mat¬ ter. The painter and sculptor, the musician and inventor have not alone found this true. The hand as well as the head and heart needs training, and many a student may find some aptitude he, till trial, little deemed he pos¬ sessed. Too generally industrial training is received dissociated from mental, without regularity, too late in life. The two should begin when young, go together and with reg¬ ularity. For the word of personal mention your paper requests, Milford ' I ' own History will suffice, by adding two years in the Massachu¬ setts Legislature; one as secretary of the Committee on Educatiom; the latter as chairman of the Committee on Federal Rela¬ tions. 8ince then I have the Law essayed. Enclosed please find a postal note in pay¬ ment of subscription, with thanks. Y ' ours most slncendy, Silas W. Hale.

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f’jR ITV ' VOL. I. MILFORD, MASS., MAY, 1885. No. 7. The Season. “O fair inidspring, besung so oft and oft, IIow can I praise tliy loveliness enow ? Thy sun tint burns not, and thy breezes soft That o’er the blossoms of the orchard blow. The thousand things that ’neath the young leaves grow, 1 he hopes and chances of the growing year. Winter forgotten long, and summer near.” It is an old, old story—this recurrec- tion of life, but one of which we never weary. Every year, daring the long- winter months, we look eagerly for¬ ward to the coining of sjn-ing and are cheered by the thought that soon these dark, gloomy days will be gone and all nature will put on her fairest dress. Almost before we know it, we seem to be in another world. The snow which just now covered the ground has melted, and reveals the green grass springing up; the cold winds that made us shiver in spite of our thick garments have given place to warm breezes that seem to whispei-, as they fan our cheeks, “S])ring has come.” From beneath dry leaves the pink arbu¬ tus raises its head and greets us with its sweet perfume. The trees which so long have lifted their bare arms to the sky, once more rejoice in their mantle of green leaves, while among their branches we can hear the birds twittering to one another as they fly from bough to bough in search of a suitable place for their summer quar¬ ters. ddie advent of spring is hailed with delight by the old, who can more read¬ ily go out of doors now that the snow has gone and the warm weather come, and by the young who, in spite of the merry times they have had skating and sliding, still prefer the sports in which they can now indulge, and who also, if tlie-truth must be told, rejoice that soon the summer vacation will be at hand. d’he farmer goes whistling to his jtloughing after his long winter’s rest from out-of-door work, the housewife throws open the windoAvs, lets the fresh spring air penetrate every nook and coi-ner and gives the house what she calls “a good cleaning,” the bota¬ nist sallies out in search of the early flowers, the gardener cheerfully begins his summer’s task, all glad, ‘heartily glad that spring has come. I. L. G., ’85. What Our Memorial Hall Thinks. “I fear that too few of these, schol¬ ars who daily jiass me by have their thoughts turned to the reason of my being here, and that those Avhose memories I hold sacred, are not brought to mind ; for the cause seems to be foi-gotton, for Avhich brave sol¬ diers, twenty years ago, fouglit and died on battle fields far from home and friends. I hardly think their heroic conduct and deeds stir u}) withiil these young persons patriotic feelings, and there is too little gratitude shown for citizens’ lives given to obtain univer¬ sal freedom and to kee]) inviolate the Union. It is sad for me to feel that my purpose is not heeded, that 1 strive in vain to re]n-esent a history of im- ]K)rtant events of tbe ]uist. Cotdd 1 s])eak aloud, with tender¬ ness I should tell them how 1,142 men of this town, at the President’s call, were Avilling to leave home comforts and dear ones to undergo the hard- shi])s of army life, not knoAving Avheth- er they Avere evei- to return, or not. All Avere determined to preserve the gOA ' ernment and their country, to crush the evil of slavery, Avhich, starting from that Vii-ginian ])ort in 1019, had cre])t like a serj)ent through the Avhole South, poisoning Idberty Avith its sting, till she, overcome l)y grief ajid anguish, turned and tram])led it. Let these sciiolars remember that they formed a ])art of the glorious ar¬ my Avhich delivered the negroes from serA ' itude, and gaA e them human rights. As soldiers they were eager to prevent the republic’s falling to pieces in its youth and they loA ' ed the name of LTkited States too aa ' cII to lose it so soon. I might recall civil strifes, for¬ eign Avars for territory and poAver, Avars for existence, and for securing freedom from unreasonable oppression, but none that had greater ends in view than this contest for destroying a wrong Avhich brought a race of hu¬ man beings almost to the same level as beasts of burden. That manv of those Avho formerly })romoted this evil are noAV glad because it exists no longer, is a fact Avhich proves that justice has been done m its destruction. To blot out such a stain, our volunteers Avent to the battle-field. Weary marches, nights of Avatching, days of hunger and suffering were their lot. Some pined aAA ' ay in foul prisons, some in the thick of the fight Avere Avounded, others Avere cut doAvn by shot and shell, never to rise again. SorroAving families day by day increased, as ncAvs Avas received of a father’s, a brother’s or a son’s death. When, at last, the conflict Avas end¬ ed, and the stars and stri])es were rec¬ ognized as the flag of South as Avell as North, the survivors came back to per¬ form the duties of laAA ' -abiding citizens; and noAv, in memory of their fallen comi-ades, graves are yearly decorated Avith fioAvers and flags. FloAvers and flags are memorials of a day and onh ' once a year remind these scholars of patriotic sacrifices, but I stand as a memorial for generations to come, a constant reminder during every day of the year. Although admiration is oft¬ en exjn-essed for my outward appear¬ ance, ’tis not merely this Avhich should be admired, but the bravery and man¬ liness of these dead soldiers Avhom I commemorate, and though age may crumble me to dust, time must never destroy their honor and praise.” o. II. Af., ’85.

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Venison is deer meat. Tliere are five children of the alum¬ ni in school this term. We are pleased to relieve the anxie¬ ty of one of the seniors by emphati¬ cally asserting that:—“It is a horse.” Ilog-o, pig-ere, sqneak-i, grnnt-um. The above has just been found en¬ graved upon the marble trough of Bacon’s swinery. It was discovered at a depth of 1885 feet in the ruins of the hamlet of Porkopolisby Sch fcmann. Class in history : “What did Julius Cccsar distribiiteVmong the Romans? Scholar scowls a moment and then gravely answers “Pop corn.” Latin class coming across the name Croesus in their reading, teacher says, “Well, who was Croesus?” Silence pre¬ vails for a moment and then someone says, “Why, She was the wife of Aeneas.” We think this passage “strengthen thou the weak hands and conlirm the feeble knees” will be particularly ap - j)licable to some of the seniors on graduation day. Young lady in botany, analyzing a flower, says, “I’m sure of one thing, these flowers are not in cats’ skins.” All agree that they are not. Some of the young ladies take ex- ceptions to the statement that “Smart women are those who have develoj)ed masculine characteristics.” Saiil one senior to his mate : “Let’s sec your proof.” “Have you engaged yovir dressmaker ?” “What is your sub¬ ject?” “What are your statistics?” The botany class with specimen, mi¬ croscope, paper and pencil are i)rodu- cing truly wonderful works of art. By the side of our Fahrenheit’s now hangs a centigrade thermometer and now the ))hilosophy class can readily change the reading of one to that of the other. As we have every reason to know that our j)rincipal is a great lover of flowers and will pi-ovide all necessary vases, can wi not kee[) them full ? V can tiius enjoy them ourselves and add to the aj)pearance of the room. Now the melancholy days have come for the Vergil class: llarpcr’s texts for recitation, no notes, no vo¬ cabulary, no cribs, nothiiuf, 0. An excellent pyrometer made by George Stimj)Son of the philosoj)hy class, has been added to our apparatus. What a blessing the park is to the high school boys! We know of no other school which has so many acres adjoining the school ])remises that are so well adapted for games of all kinds. L X x xzr. The melting })oint of mercury has been a surprise to some of the physics class. “Pendcntia nubila pressit.” lie pressed thunder from the hanging clouds. Somebody says a consul is a minis¬ ter but is not sure whether he is a L). D. or not. French 11. “Sac de unit is a sack of night, O no it isn’t, it is a clothes- bag.” Teacher—“What great German com¬ poser writes so many waltzes and pol¬ kas?” Pupil—“St. Vitus.” We have lately had a novel feature in rhetoricals, a dialogue in French, which passed off acceptably. The Gazeteer gives 284 different places in the United States which per¬ petuate the name of Washington. Now that the thirsty time of the year has come we greatly appreciate the introduction of the aqueduct water. Literature class. Why do the Jews in Ivanhoe call the Christians Naza- renes ? “Because Nazareth was king of the Jews.” Senior reading French comes across the name Pierreval and is asked the literal meaning, whei’eupon he prompt¬ ly answers “Stonewall.” Latest translations of Saintine’s Pic- ciola: “The count of Charney was a very haughty and learned man and so believed in atheism, deism and several other beliefs.” We have been much ])leased to see how coyly some of the scholars whirl the card which illustrates the duration of images upon the retina. It says: “May I kiss you ?” What a beau Thersites must have been! “Squint-eyed, with one lame foot, and on his back a lump, and shoulders curving towards the chest; Ilis head was sharp, and over it the hairs were thinly scattered.” The Sunday school lesson: “The butler and baker of Pharaoh in pris¬ on.” Teacher: “What is a butler?” Small boy cogit:iting remembers the last campaign and ventures : “ A cross¬ eyed lawyer.” Teacher to a scholar caught ])assing a note: “Two-cent postage now, is it. not? “Yes but that was not sealed.” One of the French scholars would like to know how a person voyages when he is loved. What a charming scene! A score of young Tom Mullers, on a S])rm ' morning, raking hay (last year’s) and leaves from our wi(le spreading lawn. If only a Miss Judge could have ])assed up School street there might have been a desperate flirtation at least. 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