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

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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. C- 7;7-zxjC oX HAS Tlin MOST Complete Assortment of the Latest Novelties IN GOLD PENS, Pt:NCILS, Fountain and Stylograpliic Pens at the Lowest Prices. Choice Drugs Pure Medicines AT MUSIC HALL DRUG STORE. SOLE AGENT FOR MORSE’S ASPARAGUS KIDNEY CURE, MORSE’S DYSPEPSIA CURE. ix . E. o E, a- .A. 3sr . B-U-y YOTJE- DRY GOODS AND SMALL lAEES AT 166 MAIN STREET, OF COBURN 0 LM STEAD. BUY YOUR CHOICE CANDY AT lO CENTS A POUND, O F J. W. ROBERTS, THAYERS’ BLOCK. Stamping Koom.s. Goods of all kinds furnished and stamped by the non-erasable method. SILK, CREWELS AND FLOSS Furnished for the different designs. Goods sent by mail to any address. MRS. R. AYLWARD, Grant Block, up stairs, IMilford. T. C. EASTMAN, Manufacturer of All Kinds of BOOT AND SHOE BOXES AND BAND BOXES -FOU- STRAW GOODS. -ALSO- Plain and Fancy Paper Boxes. At Mill, Corner of Central and Depot Street, Milford. BEST OF COAL AND LUMBER FOR THE LEAST MONEY OF FIELD BROTHERS. Telephone at L. II. Cook’s office. Everett Cheney, NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, TOYS, ETC. Headquarters for Boston Dally and Sunday Papers. 136 IMain street, Milford. J. -NT T - DEALEK IN ' Carpetings, Stoves, Tin and Sheet Iron Ware, Paper Hangings, Upholstery Goods, Chamber Sets, Etc. 160 and 16a Main Street, - - Milford, Mass. Welcomes his former customers to his NEW STORE, 79 MAIN ST., Where he offers Ice Cream at SI Per Gallon, and Choice Confectionery.

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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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Z V . BOYS, ATTENTION! J-- XjijEnsr AGENT F0RlVRm DITSON, Can furnish you with complete outfits for all the games of the season. 116 Main Street,., r - Milford, Mass. ' CURRIER KENDALL. ONE PRICE siaa Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods, HATS, CAPS,TRUNKS, ETC. POST OFFICE BLOCK, MILFORD. BUY YOUR - RAISINS, CURRANTS AND CITR0N - AT THE BOSTON GROCERY AND TEA HOUSE. G. F. WINCH, Proprietor. Buy Youp Stationery, Statuary, AXD SCRAP BOOKS, OF R. C. ELDRiDGE,132 Main Street, Miltord. GEORGE G. PARKER, Attorney Counsellor at Law, No. 2 Washington Block, Milford. C. r. WIGHT, TUNER AND REPAIRER ••• V Warerooms in Washington Block, Milford. ,8Gg= Church Organ tuning a Specialty. J or Yoxir Medical Advice Consult Dr. W. J. Clarke., 100 Alain Street. DR. GEO. P. COOKE, Surgeon Dentist, AT 168 Main Street, Milford. BUY YOUR RIBBONS, LACES ANB SMALL WARES OF . G. T. PALES CO., 154 Alain St., AUlford. PI SIT FOB YOUR rj 4 AT lOO MAIN STREET, MILFORD, AT E. L. WILLIS’. We desire to exchange with all School papers. REVOLUTIONS. E C} 7IN6E3• 7 ND♦ SCIS G1 .♦ | MILFORDtGRANITE TCOMPANY, ‘Active shears gather no rust.” Building and Monumental Work Of all kinds executed with despatcli. Tliis Granite is pronounced the best in the state. Does not change its color, and is free from iron. Samples furnished on.application. Estimates made on work in any part of the country. Fred Swasey, Agt. J. B. Bancroft, Treas. CLAFLIN THAYER, Manufacturers of CALF AND KIP BOOTS, Boston Office, 90 Pearl street. New York office, A. Claflin Co., IIG Church St. PENCIL SHARPENERS For School and Office Use. DUTCHER TEMPLE GO.,HOPEDALE,MASS. A START IN LIFE FOR YOUNG MEN Is an Important Problem in Every Home. Self-Support is essential in manhood, Self-Reliance a st rono; defense. In Carthage, so the story goes, The tender maidens fair Once bravely furidshed strings for bows By cutting of their hair. But time a revolution brings; Our belles, witli artful care, Now fasten beaux upon their strings With fresh sui)ply of hair. rieart-“beats” —Professional mash¬ ers. Man is a two-legged, eccentric ani¬ mal that deals in politics, religion and general merchandise. Class in physics:—What is mat¬ ter? Snrjii’ised jmpil:—Nothing is the matter. (A]) 2 )lause). “He is a mean man who deals in vulgar fractions to the neglect of in¬ tegers.”—[W. R. Alger. “Rum, Rheumatism and Remorse,” sighed the tramp as he awoke from his nap in the gutter. “After the assessor has comjmted a man’s tax, what must be done ?” “Find the money to pay it, of course.” The reason why no woman can,be¬ come jiresident is because the law re¬ quires that she be thirty-five years of age. Dude.—“What do you think of my collar?” She.—“It reminds me of a whitewashed fence around a lunatic asylum.” “Lemmy, you’re a pig!” said a fath¬ er to his sou, who was five years old. “Now, Lemmy, do you know what a pig is?” “Yes, sir; a pig is a hog’s little boy.” It is useless for jihysicians to argue against short-sleeved dresses. The Constitution of the United States says: “The right to bear arms shall not be infringed.” The Professor was trying to draw out the word organize and asked what a body of politicians did after having a drink. One bright boy, taking ad¬ vantage of the delay, said: “They take another.”—[Adelphian. Exchanges received since last issue : .‘Veademy, Acadeinian, Academy Echo, Academy Journal, Advocate, Album, Ama¬ teur .Journal, Analecta, Anchor, Atom, Car- sonian. Coffin School Record, College Chips, Comet, Critic, Deaf Mute, Hamilton College Monthly, High School Bulletin, High School Censor, Iligh School Corona, High School Journal, High School Record, High School Review, High School World, Kent’s Hill Breeze. Latin School Register, Literary Gem, Normal News, Occident, Rhillipian, INiilosophian Review, Phi-Ithonian, Portfo¬ lio, Rock Point Recall, Schoolmate, Skir¬ misher, Spy, St James Reveille, Stray Shot Stylus, Torch, Lniversity Mirror, Yindex, Vox Ludi, Waste Basket, Xavier, Hampto- nian. M O Pt E T H A N 3 3.000 OF THE ProsperoRS Bisiess Men 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 Jiioney, and become enterprising, in¬ dustrious, useful citizens. It is the ONLY scTioor. in the Avorld where the course of study is pijactioai., instead of Theoretical; where the students act as Buy¬ ers, Sellers, Traders, Bankers, Bookkeepers and Accountants in actual rusines.s oper¬ ations; where the Bank Bills, Fractional Currency and IMerchandise are actuali.y USED, and have a real value, and every transaction is just as legitimate and l)ona fide as in any Mercantile, Banking or Busi¬ ness House. TOTAL EXPENSES. Board, Tuition Fee and Stationery for the prescribed business course of three montlis |100 to $115. 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 be mailed on receipt of three letter stamps. Prospectus giving terms and a synopsis of the course of study, mailed free. Address EASTMAN COLLEGE, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.