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

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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.

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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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Z ATIT. T}IEv0;jK,vIim¥|IVY. MARCir, 1886. Published Monthly During the School Year, BY The Senior Class of the Milford High School, PRINTED BY G. M. BILLINGS. GENEU.LT EDITORS. GRACE P. FIELD and V. J. CuOK. PERSOXAL EDITORS. A BIE I. MADDEN and I. II. FAIRBANKS. LOCAL EDITORS. LILLA F. HAYWARD and W. G. CLIFFORD. BUSINESS EDITORS. CORA L. SNELL and N. E. TOUGAS. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. (Ten Numbers.) For the Year, . 40 cents ] Single Copies, . 6 cents This paper is for sale at the well-known drug store of J. Allen Bice, where subscriptions for the year will also be received, and back numbers can be obtained. Address all communications to THE OAK, LILY AND IVY, Lock Box 137. Entered at the Milford, Mass., Post-OtRce, as second class matter. Editorial. Our school numbers nearly 160 pupils; yet during the past two terms only one of the parents of these scholars has visited the school. Who has represented the guardians of the 159? Parents do not realize to what an extent they can influence the wel¬ fare of a pupil. A little interest shown by them in the school work is an incentive to greater zeal. The teacher is also stimulated to better results with the knowledge that his efforts will be appreciated and not in¬ differently passed over. The best way parents can show their interest is to visit the school, learn the method of conducting the recitations, and note the advancement of the classes in the different studies. They surely cannot show their interest by staying away and gaining their ideas of the school’s progress from the exaggerated reports of a fertile-minded school boy or girl. Come and see us; you will not be asked a single question. Our principal was summoned to Ashland this month to award the prizes in the speaking contest by the pupils of the high school. Ashland has followed the example set her by Ilolliston with jirofit to the scholars, both by increasing the interest in rhe¬ torical exercises, and also by enabling them to add to their library and to their })hysical ajiparatus. Can we not do something in this line another year? What word is equivalent to a sen¬ tence ? Guilty. Through the kindness of Principal W. II. Small we have received a copy of the Hudson Enterprise, containing an account of the Hiub School’s Indus- trial Exhibition. It was a great success, netted the school library fund $75, and, if we may judge by the report of the crowded condition of their exhibition rooms, was much appreciated by the public. There were needle, kitchen, jien and ]iencil, floral, confectionery and mechanical departments. There was also a siqiper room, where the ta¬ bles were supplied by the scholars. The Enterprise further adds: “Hud¬ son is the second town in Massachu¬ setts, so far as is known, to attempt anything of this nature—Milford be¬ ing the first.” The question has been raised by several recent deaths, especially by Hancock’s, whether or not there is any moral obligation resting on a man, who has received for years a large sal¬ ary, which should require him to make a provision for the future for himself, his wife, or for his children. We do not grudge his widow any sum, how¬ ever large, that may be raised for her by patriotic friends; we would not belittle in the least the glorious services of her husband nor the debt due him from the country ; yet we think it in¬ cumbent on every man to lay by for a rainy day, no matter what his position or his salary, and if fewer cases of this kind were recorded by the daily papers we think it would be a far better les¬ son for us of the rising generation, and teach us to practise due economy while strength and youth permit. The delightful treat which lovers of Shakespeare have recently enjoyed, has caused us to wonder whether there is a place in the world where anyone should keep his mouth more tightly closed than at a play of Shakespeare’s. A very innocent little question may be, to use a classical expression, a complete give-away. The average theatre-goer is not a competent critic, especially if also totally unacquainted with the history of the times jiortrayed. The tattoo which the prompters at the iVIiisic Hall play on the speaking tubes, to warn the man who has charge of the curtain, is becoming very no¬ ticeable and greatly adds to the inter¬ est (?) of a scene when the lovers are dying to slow music. We cry with Ylacbeth-like despair: Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this dirt Clean from—these piano keys? Are you a member of the duode¬ cimo edition ? We now say “sar-din” with accent on the penult. “Who lived in Acadia?” Scholar— “The Acadians.” Teacher—“Thanks.” The seniors are now taking a red-hot journey with Phaethon in his wild drive. Just at present, pickled limes com¬ prise the favorite lunch of the young ladies. “Say, which is it; an aesthetic or astatic needle in a galvanometer?” (Ec-static applause). Havinoj flnished one of the stories of Ovid, a girl with a cold inquired, “What do you think Ovid (of it)?” Mice have a midnight feast in some of the desks in the back of the room. Menu: po])-corn, crackers, jiaper bags, etc. “Last Sabbath the jireacherasked us to omit the third and fourth verses of the hymn.” How many mistakes here ? Pith-balls are hanging from the gas flxture for exjieriments in frictional electricity, when a young philoso¬ pher exclaims: “O, just see those lis- infectants!” Jerome Walker, M. D., in his physi¬ ology, says: “Desks covered with blue or green cloth serve to rest the eye.” There are several more young ladies whom our principal expects to hear from. Young scholar gazing at a picture of St. Cecilia and Peter—“Teacher, what have they got hoops on for?” Teacher—“Hoojis?” Y. S.—“Why yes—around their heads. The young men’s wardroom has been refurnished with blacking, brush, box and corn broom, and now we ex¬ pect the y. m. to shine like the sleek- coated horse when fed on oil meal. The Ovid class always smile when they reach Deucalion’s conversation with his wife Pyrrha after the flood :— “Nos duo turba sumus.” They have always thought that it was “ rc.s.” The subject of the recit.ation was “Coining Money.’ Interested pujiil: “Will you please tell me what the let¬ ter O, sometimes stainjied on silver pieces, stands for?” Teacher: “Oh!—er—er—” The Chemistrv class are flauntimr their colors around, not the national, but a dull orange red, which appe.ars both on the coats of the young gentle¬ men and the dresses of the youmr la¬ dies.