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

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O . gentle northern slopes and shai ]) southern declivities of the hills,—an¬ other lasting witness of our energy. 1 have only outlined a work that covered thousands of years, and re¬ quired a long laj)se of time to accom¬ plish. My story is but a leaflet of that great book of nature Avhose cover was thrown open when the earth broke away from the sun, and will be closed when it returns whence it came. F. A. M., ’83. Ourselves. We boast of no ymith, though so common a name, But we have a fair Jones, which is almost the same. We’re not honored witli Dickens l)ut have Dickinson— Beg your pardon, his daugliter we mean, is the one We see on the records; so too Craige and Snell, But we can’t make a i un upon them ' very well. There’s a Field of B’adberries which Grow to good size. And a Cook who will stew them and make berry pies. There’s a boy we call Barnyard to Madden a bit, No matter, we’ve Dennet, but noAv we have quit. There’s a girl, Mary P. Cox, though not over proud, And a boy who is Blunt, although not over- loud; Although two are so Frank they are really called Franks, They are never enough so to brand them as cranks. There is one who is Ernest, not sullen Nor- cross, Who comes over from Mendon with “fath¬ er’s old hoss.” (Horses come from their Holmes at a very slow pace. But go ay-ward I notice with very good Grace.) We have a musician whose fame Will in¬ crease. Till the day, as we hope, of his timely de¬ cease. The extent of our world is exceedingly small. But we’ve more than one Florence, though that’s about all. But a Tilden have we, tho’ he Fales to be Sam, Yet we call him that often as sort of a sham. We claim also Napoleon, Tou-gas-y they say— But that’s in a name and in only one way. Hei ' e’s Miss Eagan and Luby, O’Neil and two Joes, Whose names could be written much better in prose. Ma(y)bel-ls and may trumpets cal! old ’80, When we’re ready to see the FMr-banks of tbe Styx, “ Where we’ll gather Sweet Williams, Avhich (irow on tbe shore. While waiting for Charon to Carrie us o’er. AV. L. F., ’80. Revised Version. Veni ad—I knoAV not where; Vidi, turn—a damsel fair; Vici et—’twas just for fun— Basiavi!—story’s done. F. L. AV. S FROM THE NIAGARA INDEX, SUS¬ PENSION BRIDGE, N. Y. The Oak, the Lily and the Ivy. That’s a nice name, isn’t it? It is the name of a little paper that comes here from the High School of Milford, Mass. We like the name. It is so poetic, you know. By the way, would it not be a good title for a Spring poem? Now, Ave fear the editresses will be highly dis¬ pleased for those honest reflections, but really we are speaking 5ojia. (Ze. In fact, Ave are completely carried away with the name. We think it is about the best thing in the paper, for there is nothing else in it. We would like to give a lengthy description of this famous publication, but you should all send for a copy in ordei- to appreciate it. Now, if the writers on this little sheet will take our ad¬ vice, they will leave out such a make-up as they had in the last issue except the head¬ ing, The Oak, the Lily and the Ivy, and write a good spring poem on that subject, and they will find it to be a vast improve¬ ment to their paper. Come again by all means. We commend tlic Messenger, of IJiclimond, for its great number of in¬ teresting facts connected Avith educa¬ tional matters. We are glad to learn from tbe En- te)-])rise that Latin is so well a|)|)reci- ated in Dover. We think it the study of any high school. The most conscientious coAild not object to the St. Viateur’s College Journal for Sunday reading. We hope that the students live up to their paper. Ah, here is the Stylus! We always look at our hands before picking it up, for fear Ave may soil it. It is an edi¬ tion cle luxe and its contents are Avor- thy of its paper and ] ress .AA ' ork. We are sorry to learn from one of our exchanges that the “fat girl of St. Agnes (a young ladies’ school) fell down the other day.” We ho])e the street did not receive so much damage as Avas at first reported. “None but the braym deserve the fair.” We hope that Linus of the Trinity School Record, Avho so man¬ fully takes up the cudgels in behalf of (against?) the carissimaepuellae, may soon find his Lina — if he has not a ' l- ' ready done so. Have we read, or have Ave dreamed it, that, after a recent hotly-contested Presidential election, the successful candidate Avas presented by Yassar College gii-ls Avith a cake made by “theii-own fair hands”? Yet he is alive and vigoi ' ous. ]Moral. We would suggest that the Avriter of “Reneath a Senior’s Window,” in the Eclipse, ought to take the cake. Perhaps on him it might have the effecR, he indi¬ cates himself. We must beg to differ Avith the ex- change editor of the liandolph Macon monthly, Avho writes in favor of long editorials. To our mind, sevei’al short editorials on live to])ics are better than one long editorial es.say. Kind Month¬ ly, ])lease do not attempt to square our theory Avith our practice. It is no fault of the editors of the English High School Record, if they fail to furnish varietv enough to sat- isfy the most morbid sensationalist. In their last issue, we notice “signed editorials” by the Beacon, Detroit Free I ress (2), Pa])er Trade Journal, Philadelphia Item, Lowell Citizen, Merchant Traveler, and Longman’s M agazine. We notice one good feature about the Park College Monthly: the “con¬ tributed” ai ' ticles are not all Avritten by the editors, unless some very mis¬ leading noms de plume have been adopted. This indicates a greater de¬ gree of interest, among the Park Col¬ lege students, than is shown by stu¬ dents of some institutions from Avhich we receive exchanges. lias anyone besides ourselves ob¬ served the remarkable similarity be¬ tween the article in the Hillsdale Col- ' lege Herald, on “The Perpetuity of Thought and Deed,” and that in the Advocate of New BrunsAvick, N. J., entitled “Personal Infiuence”? Singu¬ larly enough, each is the synopsis of an address delivered on Feb. 8. Can it be that Prof. Jacobus and F. P. Stevens are simj)ly allotro))ic forms of the same substance ? Such a change reminds one of the transformation scenes of the “Thousand and One Nights,” or the fast traveling of the “Pied Piper of Ilamelin.” Next, Avithin ourseh’es Ave queried, “ To Avhom should we assign the Sphinx’s fame?” and, behold, the cover Avas the cover of the Shattuck Cadet. “Are the contents thus sym¬ bolized ?” Ave thought. We looked Avithin, but found nothing enigmatical. On the contrarv, the meaning Avas easily grasi)ed, even by our “litnited understanding.” We read Avith much interest the short article on “Essays in the High School World,” and we Avondered—please forgive us—which of the styles the essayist, whose ])ro- duction next folloAved, intended to ado])t. Was it magnilicent, sarcastic, luimorous, or — that other? We give it u)), but, barring the misuse of OIK Avord, the essav is an interesting and Avell Avritten one. The ])aper is, as a whole, very Avell edited and print¬ ed, though Ave agree Avith one of our exchanges, disliking to see the first page of the cover given up to adver¬ tisements.

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Tol. 11. MILFORD, MASS., MARCH, 1886. No. 7 Trust. A Legend. For the O. L. and I. [Minerva, in later times saddled with the attributes of the Greek Pallas Athene, originally an agricultural deity.] Far away back in the past, in the land of the fig-tree and olive. Where all the bright summer’s day sweeps the breeze from the blue Adriatic, Italy, home of the golden age and the king¬ dom of Saturn, Quiet, apart from the busy din and the tu¬ mult of cities. Lived there a man in an humble cot, an old peasant farmer. Poverty long had he known, and want was not always a stranger: Yet his trust was in Heaven, and unto the goddess Minerva Daily he raised his prayers, and offerings brought her of first-fruits. Such as the goddess delights to receive from the hands of her vassals. Still were his prayers in vain; the goddess, implacable, never. Roaming the moon lit hills, to her worship¬ er’s vision was present. Hot and dry was the season; the flaming wind from the southward Parched with its torrid breath the grass and grain of the farmers. Famine, with darkling front and death-drip¬ ping pinion, was flying Up from his home in the South, the great, gaunt Libyan desert. Sadly then the farmer his crop of rye and barley Gathered into his chamber, a pitiful store for his labor. Sadly beside s tood his wife, and sorrowful too were his children. For already they saw, through the dusky arch of the Future, Hunger and Death stalking side by side on their pitiless pathway. But, as they stood and gazed at their scanty treasure of harvest, (Wonderful then to relate!) at first with a .slow gliding motion. Saw they the grains roll apart, while the spaces between them were filling; Saw the bin slowly fill, and then on tlie floor of the chamber Dropped the precious grains,until the cham¬ ber was heavy, Rich with the wealth of the fields, yet never in fields grown or gathered. Thanks then unto the goddess the farmer, his wife, and his children Gave, and his trusting heart with joy was filled to o’erfiowing. With him rejoiced the w’andering man whom his bounty befriended; Others, too, hearing the tale, grew reverent, with awe and wonder Touched; and in after years, when famine abroad was flying. Long they remembered the holy man and the miracle wrought him. A Geological Story. Forget nineteen centuries with all their trials and triumphs; forget all history, both sacred and profane; turn your thoughts backward millions of years, to the time when Greenland was covered with a luxurious growth, and the heated currents of the ocean furnished it with warmth and verdure. Then the earth’s axis swerved from its pol.ar star, and the southern cur¬ rents no longer mingled with Arctic waters. But tlie cold currents began to flow, and the cold winds to blow. All animate, nature changed her ap¬ pearance. The animals migrated to¬ ward the south, the trees and grasses withered away, and all nature seemed to cry:— “O the long and dreary winter! O the cold and cruel winter! Ever thicker, thicker, thicker Froze the ice on lake and river; Ever deeper, deeper, deeper Fell the snow o’er all the landscape. Fell the covering snow, and drifted. Through the forest.-” Then it was that my ])arents, the blue waters, gave me birth. I remem¬ ber no childhood s})orts, for our fami¬ ly was very large, and we were obliged to enter u))on our life work at once. Like the animals, we, too, journeyed southward, and although our sj)eed was slow, yet, because of our great mass, our momentum was tremendous, and nothing could bar our progress. Descending into the depths of the t alleys, and climbing the highest hills, on we glided by Hudson’s Bay and over Labrador. The crest-line of the Laurentides, the valley of the St. Lawrence, were left behind, and then Mt, Washington’s lofty summit came in view. But what to us were six thoiisand feet? Up, up we climbed, crushing, grinding and grooving its rocks, and to this day the summer traveler can read our records on the ledges. To the south, our road was verv difficult, on account of its winding valleys and steep hdls. Some of our number, wearied by the hardships of the journey, glided off into the ocean, but we went onward, over Monadnock and Wachusett, to Long Island, the goal of our desires. We took good care that . men should never forget us, for we left autographs behind that can never be effaced. Even now, in Milford, are traces of our writing. We became Nature’s great stone- crusher, as farmers of this vicinity will testify, to their sorrow. Bass over your northern woods, and you will see how well avo distributed the fraouients. Two monuments still re- O main to mark the record of our trav¬ els, now known as Indian Rock and Bear Hill Bowlder. Several pieces of soap stone, torn from their native ledges in southern New Hampshire, we deposited on Milford’s mountain, to delude man in later days Avith hopes of a bonanza. But alas! all hopes soon vanished, for they Avere only wanderers in a strange land. By the hard crystalline boAvlders at our base, Ave grooved the granite ledges from north to south, and today you can rfjid our handAvriting by the side of one of your schoolhouses. When your scAver and Avater pipes are laid, the sand, the gravel and the rounde(l stones, throAvn out sometimes from the lepth of fifteen feet, are evi¬ dences of our work. So also are your gr.avel pits, Avhich furnish you Avith material for your higliAv.ays; so too are your sand beds, of Avhich you make your roofings and concrete Avalks. Look to your water-sheds; see the

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Ij I HjIT. Be firm. One constant element in luck Is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck. —[Holmes. We help many of our students to good situations.—[Eastman’s College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Easter will come on April 25. This has not occurred before since 1734, and will not occur again until 1943. Before you begin to peruse a book, know something about the author. Read the preface carefully. Take a comprehensive survey of the table of contents. Give your whole attention to what vou read. Be sure to note the most valuable passages as you read. Write out, in your own lan¬ guage, a summary of the facts you have noted. Ajiply the results of your reading to your every-day duties. —[David Pryde. « Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, and Bryn Mawr are the only colleges giving in¬ struction to ladies alone, but there are in the United States over one hundred and fifty colleges for young men which also admit them. The great English universities, Oxford and Cambridge, have made arrangements by which ladies can attend a large number of lectures. Italy, too, has opened its seventeen universities to women, and Norway, Sweden, and Denmark have also allowed them to enter. BUY YOUR IDJE lZr C OOIDS AT T. Mechanics Block, 138 Main Street., Milford, Mass. GEORGE G. PARKER, Attorney Counsellor at Law, No. 2 Wasliingtoii Block, Milford. H. C. SNELL, Dealer in MEATS AND PROVISIONS Fruits, Vegetables, Pickles, Etc. Also, home- cured Hams and home-made Sausages. 64 MAIN STREET. HENRY S. CUSHMAN, Manufacturer of Heavy and Light Fine Harnesses. Also on hand, Sale Harnesses at Low Prices. Horse Blankets, Storm Cover.s, Whips, Lap Robes, Horse Collars, Etc. Repairing Promptly and Faithfully Executed. No. 76 MAIN ST., MILFORD. R. C. ELDRIDGE, Dealer in DiamoiiJs, falclies, Clocb aiiJ Jeffelry, 132 Main St., Milford. Energy is acquainted with nothing but success; voices of discouragement are strangers to it; it never yields one iota in its determination; though it may perish under an avalanche of dif¬ ficulties; yet as its lamj) goes out it is still contending for its ideal.—[Chris¬ tian Union. M. E. B. in the Boston ' Journal, af¬ ter a visit to the Evening School, says of literature and modern languages: — I am not sure but these studies, articles de luxe as it were, since they were under¬ taken more for mental discipline than for practical aid in life, were not the most im¬ portant of all. We so sadly need resources of the imagination and the more abstract powers of the mind to sustain and elevate life that I am always rejoiced to see evidence of study undertaken for the pleasure and warmth it brings of itself, without any mer¬ cenary or mere practical thought behind it. Can any pecuniary reward be richer than the consciousness of greater strength, of deeper insight, of nobler understanding within that fair and hidden realm ov ‘r which each rules for himself—that kingdom of which he and he alone is or ever can be king. Empires may change and circumstance, prosperity may come oradversity, the mirage of fame may fade as we journey on and the bubble fortune burst as we touch it, but treasure of mind and wealth of spirit who shall touch or snatch from us? I or Your Medical Advice Consult Dr. J. Clarke., 100 Main Street. OUR PENCIL SHARPENERS FOR SCHOOL USE, Have been adopted by many of the best schools in the country. DUTCHER TEMPLE COMPANY HoDedale, Mass. ALL OK DEBS FOR C3-I5.00 E ZU S Received from the High School .Scholars, will be promptly delivered by the BOSTON GROCERY AND TEA HOUSE. G. F. WINCH, Proprietor. E. G. MOORE, Offers to the Public all leading varieties of CUT FLOWERS I FLORAL WORK •=s-CURRIER KENDALL, - OWE PRICE Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods, HATS, CAPS,TRUNKS,ETC. POST OFFICE BLOCK, MILFORD. BTJ-V ■STOXTE, AT 166 MAIN STREET, OF COBURN 0 LM STEAD. DK. G-EO. P. COOKE, Surgeon Dentist, AT 168 Main Street, Milford. MILFORD F GRANITE F COMPANY Building and IVIonumental Work Of all kinds executed with despatch. This Gi-anite is pronounced the best in the state. Does not change its color, and is free from iron. Samples furnislied on application. Estimates made on work in any part of the country. Eked Swasey, Agt. J. B. Baxcroft, Treas. T. C. EASTMAN, Manufacturer of All Kinds of BOOT AND SHOE BOXES AND BAND BOXES -FOR- STRAW GOODS. -ALSO- Plain and Fanc.y Paper Boxes. Mill, Corner of Central and Depot Street, Milford BUY Y O C II RIBBONS, LACE AND SMALL WARES, OF G. T. FALES CO., 154- Main St., 3iilfoi‘d. CLAFLIN THAYER, Manufacturers of CALF AND KIP BOOTS, Boston Office, 90 Pearl street. New York office, A.Claflin Co., 116 Church St. W. H. BOURNE C CO., DEAI.EKS IX FAXCY GOODS, YARNS, AND DRESS TKI.M.MINGS, 5 “Also Infants’ Goods of all Kinds. 1U6 .Main Street, Milford, Mass. Of all kinds. Give him a call.