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

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o -A. k; ’F}IEv0)qK,:LmY|IY¥. Published Monthly During the School Year, ItY The Senior Class of the Milford High School. PRINTED BY G. M. BILLINGS. GENERAL EDITOR.S. INEZ L. GAY and CLAKENCE H. MORGAN. PERSON.VL EDITORS. HARRIET A. SMITH and HORACE A. BROWN. LOCAL EDITORS. ANNA M. 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, Mass., Post-Office, as second class matter. N. B. It is our intention to furnish our patrons, however, with a better and hU her than second class. Editorial. As with this number the connection of the present senior class with the O. ' L. and 1. ceases, it is devoted al¬ most Avliolly to matters of class in¬ terest. We have prospered in our new en¬ terprise far better than we at first an¬ ticipated, and we trust that we have obtained experience which will be of use to us in after life. The O. L. and I. is no longer an experiment, but, we hojie, an estab¬ lished fact. We thank all tho.se vdio have contributed to its support .and hope they will continue to take an in¬ terest in it so that its second volume may be even more successful than the first. Unusually tasty cards are out for the annual reunion of the High School Alumni for Friday, June 26. The fact that so many meet every June to renew old school acquaintances, is one of the best indicMions of the jiojnilar- ity of this school. All the members of this year’s gradu.ating class have siirncd the constitution and received com])limentary tickets. The te.achers of Milford have shoivn their ap})reci ation of Superintendent Hatch’s labors during the past three yeors, by presenting him with one of Ilogers’ groups, “Is it so nominated in the bond?” Mr. Hatch enters upon his new duties in Haverhill in Sej)- tember. The first ten of ’85 for four years in scholarshi]) and dejiortment .are: Gay, Fales, Hale, Morgan, Koss, Walker, Field, E.C. Thayer, O’Sullivan, Smith. Graduating Exercises OF THE ’SS, Milford Music Hall, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, At 9 o’clock a. m. PROGRAMME. Piauo Solo.Mrs. Charles E. Whitney Introduction of the Class by its President, Frank L. Fales. Chorus by the School—See Our Oars with Feathered Spray —by Dr. Stevenson. The Golden Age.Anna M. Walker Marmion—Canto VI .Essie C. Thayer Quotations from Cicero. Harry P. Crosby, John A. Finnigan, John F. Igoe, Peter McBride, William O. Thayer. The Kitchen of the Future.Harriet A. Smith The Proverbial Sayings of the Aeneidf. Winona L. Hale. Washington Irving, as. Revealed in his Sketch Book. John J. O’Sullivan. Chorus by the School, The Sailor’s Song. The M. H. S. Herbarium of Wild Flowers. (With Poetical Quotations.) Agnes M. Burke, Alice 1. Burrell, Nellie M. Conely, Mary F. Connolly, Theresa A.McCarten, Katie F. Tully, Mabel Waterman, Minnie WatermaiD., A Glance at Milford.Isabella H. Ross “Dear, gentle, patient, noble little Nell.’’ . Carrie M. Field. Some Reasons why Men are Willing to Die. Clarence 11. Morgan. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.Inez L. Gay Presentation of Diplomas. Singing of the Class Ode. Music by Kaegeli Accompaniments by Mrs. Whitney. ♦Written to satisfy college requirements. tExcused on account of he.alth. The cl.nss motto is tliat of tlie paper, d ' he colors are blue and gold. The class officers are: President, Frank L. Fales; vice jiresident, Katie F ' . Tully; secretary and treasurer, Agnes M. Burke. The class badge of ’85 is a diamond of old gold ribbon on blue. On the diamond is an ornament.al horseshoe, on the blue the class year and its notto in black. The school is indebted to R. A, Cooke, ’80, for a sjiecimen of coquina and flint from St. Augustine, Florida ; a piece of the brick Avork of Fort IMarion ; a chip from the Washington monument; a section of bark from a jMexican palm tree; A])])leton’s new cycloptedia, 17 vol¬ umes ; Gage’s apjiaratus, seven-in-one and eight-in-one ; Newton’s disks and Pasc.al’s vases are new additions to our library and ajqiaratus. Pink has been selected by the En¬ glish of ’85 as their color. Literature cl.ass: Wh.at is the clos¬ ing part of an oration? “The par- thenon.” Whittier’s poem, “The Bridal of Penacook,” has lately been transform¬ ed into “The Bridal of the Pe.acock.” Not every one can boast of such genius as the scholar can, who de¬ fined a winter idyl as an image. Specimen of a free translation : “She w’.as the kind of a girl to hang to a tioigP Teacher suggests, “Keej) to her oath,” Thanks to the generosity of Dame Nature, sevenal of the young ladies have had their efforts in keeping the piano adorned, well rewarded. One of the be.autiful moonlight nights of two weeks .ago Avas Avell im¬ proved by several of tlie seniors,—in a jmrely astronomical Avay, of course. Poor youths of the Middle Ages couldn’t become squires until seventy- one (?) years of .age. Wh.at an amount of ]).atience Avas necessary to wait all th.at time! For the past Aveek the Botany class have enjoyed the luxury of reciting out of doors, the pleasure of Avhich Avas marred only by the Avarning sound of the bell. One of the fourth class considers the following to be one of the impor¬ tant features of the circus Avhich late¬ ly A’isited toAvm :—“There is many wild anim.als in it which yells all the time.” We have heard of the Frenchman Avho drank some Castor Oil for polite¬ ness’ s.ake, but never, until a feAv Aveeks ago, have Ave seen any one eat cotton chocol.ate dro})S Avithout a grimace. The English cl.ass of ’85 recently gaA ' e the school and our jirincipal a pleasant surprise by presenting to the school through him, a half life-size photograph of himself, handsomely framed, Avith the name of their class upon it. Principal Lull to the English class of’85:—“Oh, yes, Avith a small con¬ tribution from every one, you can get ‘A very pretty picture for the school.” “Hence those blushes” last Tuesday morning Avhen the “pretty jiicture” proved to be a photograjdi of himself. Mary E, Traversee, ’84, has receiv’- ed a $275 scholarship from the Stu¬ dents’ Aid Society of Wellesley Col¬ lege for the year commencing Sep¬ tember 9, 1885, Her splendid record (luring her high school course has merited such a rcAvard.

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f d i i T y VOL. I. MILFORD, MASS., JUNE, 1885. No. 8. Class Ode of ’85. BY MAGGIE B. MIXON. Father Time, thy footsteps, Light as falling snow. Through four years of school-life We have felt them go; Bringing with them mem’ries Of a living Past, Sighs and fond regrettings. Friendships dear and fast. Joyful have the days been! Bright as morning sun! Taught in ways of wisdom. Swift our course we’ve run. By these self-same teachings. We with hopes sublime, Trust to gain Bight’s summit. In the future time. Ne’ er again the faces. Beaming with delight, As of yore we’ve seen them. Shall make glad our sight. But the sense of feeling— Our life—must depart Ere the thoughts of schooldays Vanish from the heart. Strive that clear and steady Life’s fair Stream shall flow. Not like mountain torrent Causing grief and woe; Spreading rather gladness Over vale and plain. Till at length ’tis merged in The eternal Main. History of the Class of ’85. BY MARIA P. WE.STCOTT. Yes, it is nearly four years since we entered the hitrli scliool. Years crowd- O ed full of ha|)])y events. On the first Monday of September, 1881, from half jiast seven to eight, we new schol¬ ars came in groujis, or one by one, hardly daring to look up and if sjioken to, not venturing to say more than “Yes, sir,” or “No, sir.” Poor timid creatures! so the older ones thought. That first never-to-be-forgotten day was spent in assigning our seats and giving out the lessons. On our way home every friend that we met greet¬ ed us with, “Well, how do you like the high school?” receiving invariably the answer, “I don’t know yet.” We soon felt more at home, how -1 ever, and grew accustomed to our sur- roundings, yet we never could help trembling when we heard the thunder¬ ing voice of the sub-master say to some unfortunate one who did not recite as glibly as desired, “You may sit.” With what awe we viewed those penetrating glasses! We used to wonder how the seniors knew so much, and we felt greatly flattered if one of them noticed us enough to speaL to us. After crowding our brains to their fullest extent with the roots and stems, but alas! not the flowers of the language of the proud old Romans; with a, b, c’s and x, y, z’s ; with the names of the bones and organs of the “human form divine,” there still re¬ mained at our elbow, long columns of debits and credits to add. IIow sorry we were not to have Miss Bancroft with us when we came back to school after the first long va¬ cation. We have never ceased to regret her resignation. As members of the third class now came our turn to look down upon the new scholars; how very ignoi ' ant they were to be sure! how shyly they acted and how we condescended to them! After wrestling nobly the second year with Swinton’s account of the different races of the world, their habits, cus¬ toms and never-ending wars, at the same time endeavoring to understand the jJiysical laws of Nature and the ])henomena depending uj)on them, we then tried to follow Ciesar into Gaul, while the college-aspiring ones began the rudiments of the language of the Greeks. Do you remember one rhetorical day during the Butler campaign, how sur})rised our sub-master was, when having asked what prominent man from Lowell was before the public, to receive from R. the answer, “Mr. Sherburne”? Alas for us, that was the last year of his prominence before a Milford public, for inducements too strong to resist were offered him by his native city and he left us ; to his loss we have never become reconciled. This same year Miss Hall, too, bade us “good bye,” having decided to change her profession for that of the healing art. Thirteen of our class also departed at this time triumphantly waving a two years’ dijiloma. Mr. Gordon and Miss Jones, as new teachers, greeted us at the beginning of the third year. Now those not studying for college began the inspec¬ tion of molecules ' and the composition of the different elements of nature. This study appeared very difficult at first, but soon we enjoyed it greatly, es))ecially the chats down in the lab¬ oratory about the new styles of dress and kindred matters. What a confla¬ gration we just escaped one day as a result of Miss W’s heat ed forceps coming in contact with a piece of phosphorus. About this time it was deemed ne¬ cessary that we should learn to jiarlez- vous ; and such a confusion of tongues as Ave made of it! “Confusion” not so great, hoAvever, as the young lady’s in the Vergil class, Avhen she found herself saying, “And bring his gods to Latham.” Was it really filial iEneas whose wanderings she w’as following or had her mind wandered oh its own account down through the ages to the then ])resent year of 1884? Ask Maud Muller’s musical judge—or the young lady. Tins year brings with it a new de¬ parture. Instead of the usual literary exercises on Washington’s birthday, we had our experimental industrial exhibition. As a result, many new books and more ajiparatus for the school. Thinking a journey in foreign lands might im])rove our mental health, we accompanied the youthful Longfellow through France and Siiain; Continueil ou page three.

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Hi I L ' lr. Continued from first page. then followed Lowell around his gar¬ den ; and made tlie acquaintance of Whittier’s Yankee Gypsies. As seniors of ’85 we found that the o])inion we had formed of that excel¬ lent body was erroneous; they were not Caesars or Shakespeares after all. Nevertheless our lives flowed swiftly on while listeiiing to the eloquence of Cicero and Catiline in the Koman senate and while following the Count de Charney through his re-conversion to Christianity by means of a little flower. We studied Longfellow’s Evangeline and Whittier’s Snow- Bound with much pleasure while the college class followed Homer through the Trojan wars. As INIr. Gordon stayed only a year, we made the acquaintance of Mr. Rushmore at the beginning of the fall term; and tliat the latent artistic l)owers of the school might be devel¬ oped, the winter term brought us, as an additional teacher. Miss Hayward, one of our own graduates, M’ho has given us, Avith many other pleasant things, instruction in drawing. Hav¬ ing by this time become quite well acquainted with the Atlantic authors, we learned how our government and the different powers connected with it are carried on, and in this by s])ecial j)ennission to the class, we dis])la)XHl our oratorical powers in a discussion on Free Trade and Protection. Fin¬ ishing the text book before the close of the term, a society was oi-ganized styled the M. H. S. Improvement So¬ ciety and such was its good influence that at the end of three days we had reached the utmost limit of all possi¬ ble imjirovement, and the society was disbanded. Although a sergeantess- at-arms was chosen, yet never were arms such a useless incumbrance ; but had she found occasion to exercise her power, without doubt the gentlemen, at least, would have yielded immedi¬ ately, as they usually do. It was decided to postpone our e.x- hibition until the spring vacation, and to try and make it still more of a success than last year ; our ])ecuniary profit was one hundred and forty-nine dollars ; our profit in other resjiects, jiast computation. As the summer term began, some chose to learn the science of wealth while others studied the wonders of ])lant-life. To think that our teacher utterly refused to be¬ lieve in one wonder, when a young lady stated that the flowers of a cer¬ tain ]»lant grew in a catskin ! The incredulity of some jiersons is beyond belief ! It has been our good fortune during all the changes of the past four years to retain two of our teachers with us ; our principal, IMr. Lull, and our first assistant IMiss Parkhurst. We have been especially fortunate in losing only one of our number, who passed away last fall. We hope it may be many years before another is called to cross the dark river. As we leave the school, our places will be filled by others. Although we may not have left “footprints on the sands of time” for the encouragement of any “forlorn” successor,yet Ave hope that the freshly tinted Avails of our school-room may serve for a while, at least, to hold in kindly remembrance the class of ’85. What the Poets Say of ’85. F. L. F. “True and tender and brave and just That man might honor and woman trust.” A. I. B. “Her x)resence lends its warmth and health To all who come before it.” J. F. I. “None but himself can be his parallel.” M. P. AV. “Her voice was soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.” M. L. M. “Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.” J. J. O’S. The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, the hand to execute.” E. C. T. “With a scorn in her eye, which the gazer could feel. And a glance like the sunshine that flash¬ es on Steel.” A. M. B. “An honest treasurer, like a black- plumed swan. Not every day our eyes may look upon.” C. H. M. “A loving soul to every task he brought.” C. M. F. “This is the flower that smiles on every one.” W. O. T. “He early gained the power to pay His cheerful, self-reliant way.” A. M. AA ' ' . “And her gentle mind was such That she grew a noble lady And the people loved her much.” H. P. C. “A nature passionate and bold, Strong,self-concentred, spurning guide.” II. A. S. “TTiose about her From her may learn the perfect ways of honor.” H. A. B. “Lord of himself, though not of lands. And having nothing, yet hath all.” T. A. McC. “Impulsive, earnest, prompt to act And make her generous thought a fact.” } “Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.” M. W.) R. C. H. “Ne’er Was flattery lost on poet’s ear. A simple race! They waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile.” B. U-. R. “AVhere none admire, ’tis useless to excel; Where none are beaux, ’tis vain to be a Belle.” M. F. C. “Her modest looks the cottage might adorn. Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.” J. A. F. “He looks the whole world in the face For he owes not any man ” P. M. McB. “ilis best companions, innocence and health. And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.” 1C. F. T. “The joy of youth and health her eyes displayed. And ease of heart her every look con¬ veyed.” N. M. C. “Courteous though coy, gentle though retired.” AV. L. H. “A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.” I. L. G. “Full of the deepest, truest thought Doing the very things she ought.” G- HAS THE MOST Complete Assortment of the Latest Novelties IN GOLD PENS, PENCILS, Fountain and Stylographic Pens at the Lowest Prices. Choice Drugs Pure Medicines AT M USIC HALL DRUG STORE. i SOLE AGENT FOR MORSE ' S ASPARAGUS KIDNEY CURE, MORSE’S DYSPEPSIA CURE. H. E. □yCOE-OA.IT. i SAJ-Z- YOUE, j DRY HOODS Al SMALL WARES ! AT 166 MAIN STREET, OF COBURN O LM STEAD. BUY YOUR CHOICE CANDY AT 10 CENTS A POUND, O F J. W. ROBERTS, THAYERS’ BLOCK. Stamping Rooms. Goods of all kinds furnished and stamped by the non-erasable method. SILK, CREAVELS AND FLOSS Furnished for the different designs. Goods sent by mail to any address. MRS. R. AYLW ARD, Grant Block, up stairs, Milford. T. C. EASTMAN, Manufacturer of AH Kinds of BOOT AND SHOE BOXES AND BAND BOXES -FOK- STRAW GOODS. -ALSO- Plain and Fancy Paper Boxes. At Mill, Corner of Central and Depot Street, Milford. ?Fil BEST OF COAL AND LUMBER FOE TH E LEAST MONEY OF FIELD BROTHERS. Telephone at L. H. Cook’s office. EVERETT Cheney, NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, TOYS, ETC. Headquarters for Boston Daily and Sunday Papers. 136 Main street, Milford. W. H. BOURNE CO., Successors to E. C. Morse, DEALKR.S IN DRY FANCY GOODS, DRESS TRIMAIINGS. ETC. 10( Alain Street, Milfnrd, Mass. AA’elcomes his former customers to his NEW STORE, 79 MAIN ST., AA’here he otters Ice Cream at 1 Per Gallun, and Choice Confectionery.