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

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O KI. Are you going to exchange jjictures ? Wanted. Steps at the rear window. For aper, thunder-bolt and cow, see Latin 1. Algebra I. “Two times 25 is—ah —erlOO.” Graduation is coming ! Sit still, my heart, sit still! Wanted—An artist to paint a sun¬ beam for the blind. A symphony in two parts: the Bot¬ any class and “mudpies.” Vade, age! is our motto now, for school begins at 8 o’clock. Each member of the Botany class learns one quotation about flowers every day. Only nine for quantity in the new elocution class; but as for quality— well, ask them. There are no young men in the Botany class and no young ladies in the Review class. Point for Book-keeping IV. If your teacher asks what a joint affair is, tell her rheumatism. The prospect now is that there will be a great many strikes in Milfoi-d the coming season—on the ar ' . Do you ball ? During the past two aa eeks we have been called u])on by our representa¬ tives at Cambi-idge, Wellesley and Worcester. Each scholar in the Review class has ten different examples to perform every day, thus making the work en¬ tirely independent. The senior class has two members by the name of E ' runcis and three by that of Frances. It seems that the ' must be very jAroper names. The senior class are becrinning to realize that graduation is near at hand, as the ])arts have been assigned and some are hard at work. “The duties of the selectmen are to occupy the jury box and take care of the board of health when there is none.” See Civil Govt. IV. One of the seniors has very seriously injured her finger. She fears that it must be amputated. “Look out!” Vou’ll know her by her “Ow.” Out of the mouth of Brarnah came Brahmans; out of his arms, came wai- riors; out of his breast(the seat of life) came producers; out of his feet came laborers. These are the four castes. We would advise the young ladies of the first class to olitain more help for mailing the papers next time, and so not be locked into the school and be obliged to get out by the window. Chemistry II. have presented for our inspection etchings on copper and glass. Some shoAved considerable patience and merit in their Avork, par¬ ticularly William W. Phipps and Etta M. Green. A chance. For some genius to get a patent on a method by Avhich the geography of our country may be for¬ ever fixed in the memory of the schol¬ ar. None as yet tried have been found satisfactory. The Latin classes are now not quite so much surprised at receiving their instruction in the Latin. “In Latinam lingnam transfei’,” or “In Atiglicurn ad verbum transfer” are becomino- fa- miliar expressions and they are just as much pleased as ever to hear: “Tibi erit hoc decern.” The officers of the Alumni Associa¬ tion for this year, the twenty-fifth an¬ niversary of the first regular gradua¬ tion, are, Ave doubt not, fully alive to the responsibilities of their positions. We trust that they Avill send out their notices to distant members at an early date and also make the attractions so great that all Avill make great exer¬ tions to be ]ux‘sent. ► ' -2. •6 A’ Superintendent Daniels, once of ’50, Avas a recent visitor of our school. Harry N. Day, ’75, has bought a denial office and business in Morris, Illinois. Elbridge Jones, English of ’85, is learning the hat trade Avith Dyer, Tay¬ lor Co., Boston. Mary P. Cox, ’86, has been engaged as the alto of. the quartette at the Con¬ gregational church. George A. Walton, agent of the State Board of Educi.tion, Avas in school Tuesday, the 19th inst. Friends of William J. Cook, ’86, have been summoned to Chicago on account of his severe sickness. Blanche Sheldon, once of 86, aaxis a recent visitor. She is at present a teacher in the schools of Wareham. Charles B. Godfrey, once of ’62, has recently sailed for England to repre¬ sent the interests of an electrical com¬ pany of Boston. Harry C. Tilden, ’86, has come home from Poughkeejisie, Avhere he has finished his course at the Eastman Husiness College, and is uoav engaged at the Gazette office. Jennie T. JVIcCann, ’76, and Alcista A. lIoAvard, ’84, have been elected teachers. Miss McCann has been ofiven the Braggville school and Orean- na Cheney, ’74, has been transferred from the Braggville to the Silver Hill school. e. T. FILES CO., Special Sale -OF- COLORED 4 of Avhich we have the best line in Milford, at prices that cannot be beaten. -OUK- Hamburgs, Laces, Ribbon and G-lo ve Department, were never so complete as at present. SOLE AGENTS FOR MATHER Lacei M Clloies 0. T. FALES CO,. 154 MAIN ST., Milford, Mass.

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irpEv0 K,vWIiY|IVY. APRIL, 1887. Published Monthly During the School Year, BY The Senior Class of the Milford High School. PRINTED BY G. M. BILLINGS. GENERAL EDITORS. AMELIA C. HARRIS and W. PARKIIURST. PERSONAL EDITORS. LYDIA F. GOULD and FRED J. AYLWARD. LOCAL EDITORS. SARAH M. GORMAN and FRANK J.MORIARTY BUSINESS EDITORS. GRACE W. EASTMAN and MARY E. WHI ' l ' NEY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. (Ten Numbers.) For the Year, . 40 cents | Single Copies, . 5 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, and back numbers can be obtained. Address all communications to THE OAK, LILY AND IVY, Lock Box 137. Entered at the Milford, Mass., Post-Office, as second class matter. We, the first class, would like to tender our kindest wishes to the fourth. We realize that every due mark of respect has been shown ns by them during this, onr last year. How proud we feel of onr knowledge when we ai-e daily referred to as the best authoi’ity on all government questions, both concerning onr own town and the country. Could we ever be so grasp¬ ing as to ask for a greater compliment? Although they, the fourth, are repeat¬ edly forbidden to consult ns on that subject, still they persi.st. What else can they do when they are expressly told to obtain their answers from the best authority? We half think that he who makes the objection is a trifle jealous. The book-keeping class have just closed their first store (a grocery store) and have squared their books with a loss of about ninety-five cents. Masters Gibbons and Holbrook were the pro¬ prietors and every scholar in the class, their book-keepers. Their stock in trade consisted of cards on which were written the amount, the cost and sel¬ ling price of the goods. The scholars were the purchasers and they bought in the four usual ways—when cash was paid, printed currency of denomi¬ nations from one cent to ten dollars was used. The usual expenses of rent, express, clerk hire, et cetera were in¬ cluded in the accounts. The class seem much interested, and it is hoped that the practical nature of the work will produce more satisfactory results than the old way. Hand in your odes, colors and mot¬ toes for ’87. The symjiathy between the olfactory nerve and the tip of the no.se lias re¬ cently been made evident. Hither by the gases generated in the Chemistry class or a simple onion analyzed in the Botany class, a continual movement has been kept up. In some cases, by the amplitude of vibration, one might easily be led to think the tip was worked on a well lubricated hinge. We are pleased to learn that several of our recent graduates have become shareholders in the new co-operative bank. It is for just such young men as these that the bank was incorporat¬ ed. Habits of saving begun thus ear¬ ly will make a great difference in their lives, in their worth as citizens, in their finan cial prosperity and by their ex¬ ample, indirectly, in the general wel¬ fare of the town. It is of great advantage to man to have a memory (life’s great thesaurus), a storehouse of facts, and a fine educa¬ tion, but what is most to be desired is comraonsense. Memorize theories, if you please; but without common sense it would be difficult to apjily them, and so even with facts and an educa¬ tion they could hardly be made prac¬ tical. As all the other faculties are of greater value with it, a little, certain¬ ly, is to be desired if but for a pedestal upon which to base our different powers. After the snow, the cold and the “Tempest” of the past months, we shall eagerly look forward from the “Winter’s Tale” to a “Midsummer Night’s Dream. We hope that the disagreeable weather of the past sea¬ son may be made up to you, dear read¬ ers, “Measure for Measure” and just “As You Like It.” Perhaps you may say that this is “Making Much Ado about Nothing;” but we trust that ours may not be “Love’s Labor Lost.” Anyway we live in hopes that “All’s Well That Ends Well.” Julius Caesar! What are you “Lear-iug” at ? Worry is a universal disease, the epidemic infests all climates and all persons. No order given to rout it now and then is a safeguard against its grasp. Although it is of a disa¬ greeable nature, it is often uncon¬ sciously encouraged by us. No di¬ sease leaves more deeply indented marks than those of worry, and as with all diseases, the fatal effects de¬ pend upon the treatment received. Consult in those whom the fever has been raging they will tell you it ought to have been allayed at the start. Beecher said, “It is Avorry and not work that kills.” The following experiment from the Pottery Gazette will be of interest to Philosophy III. It seems that a man had brought suit for the loss of sight in one eye and he was proven a perju¬ rer by this simple, yet ingenious, test. A black card, on which there was a word in green ink, had been prepared and also a pair of spectacles with a red glass for the sound eye and a xohite one for the other. The man put on the glasses and without hesita¬ tion read the word. He must have done so with the eye claimed to be sightless; for the red glass and the green lettei’S together produce black¬ ness and, therefore, could not have been distinguished from the blackness of the card by the sound eye. Monday, April 18.—Sadly we lay aside our incomplete “Spring Poem” —as yet unconsecrated to any editor’s waste-basket—wherein we sing of bursting bud and briery bush, of bust¬ ling bird and busy bug, of babbling brook and birth and bloom, and bat and ball and—and-hand-organs. Balefully, yes, bellico.sely, we take down our snow-shovel, that shovel around which we had tied a gaudy ribbon and hung it upon the parlor wall to cover the flue left vacant by the stove sent to Nahant to escape taxes. With labored effort we send gutterward the ever accumulating flakes and wonder whv the legislature doesn’t set off a piece of the year for a real poetical spring, and then we poets (?) could tell the truth, even in song. In a H2SO4 Flask- “Oh dear, oh dear,” said a weary little NO molecule, “nothing but get¬ ting and giving, taking and carrying all day long! Here I am pulling to jiieces the air, Avdiich comes rushing in here, to get my load of O ; but no soon¬ er do I jierform my task than that greedy, suffocating SO comes in another door and robs me of it, and so I must begin all over again. Talk about that sieve and water story down below! why, it’s nothing when com¬ pared with my work. This alternate oxidizing and re lucing will be the death of me. Well, well, there’s one consolation : that nasty, old S ()2 grows so fat on my O which it steals, that it changes to SO 3 , ami when the steam, that 1 can hoar hissing over my head, gets down here, it will be dissolved in the water. Then, as HgSO , it, too, will be obliged to work for its living as the constant slave of man, as I am now doing. Mine is a hard life, but I suppose that I am of some use in the world, and as there is some little com¬ fort in this thought. I’ll try not to be discouraged. Oh, Ell and Eye.

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LI LIT. Buy Ladies’ and Misses’ M0KETS WRiPS NEWMARKETS, DRESS GOODS, Etc. of J- w. HiCKLEir, 138 MAIN STREET - - MILFORD. PURE DRUGS AND MEDiCINES AT LAMSOX ' S PHARMACY. Try Lamson’s Cougli Syrup at 25 and 26 Cents a bottle. Your money refunded if it does not relieve. Corner of Main and Exchange Sts. GO TO O. LI. .A-L).A.LIS’, To Purchase PICTURE FRAMES Of all kinds. A large assortment of Mouldings on hand. Milford Variety Store. Newspapers, Periodicals, Toys, Etc. Headquarters for Boston Daily and Sunday Papers. EYsrstt Cheney 13C Main Street, Milford. -FOR FINE- B 0 O r JJIO E s. SLIPPERS In all the Leading Styles, go to R, P. H A D L E Y ' S 123 Wlain Street, Milford. DENTIST GEO, L. COOEE, D. D. S, Rooms over Milford National Bank. 17S MAIN STREET, - - MILFORD. C. r. WIGHT, TUNER AND REPAIRER OF ]MD 0R6 N3,- Warerooms in Washington Block, Milford. {[[ “Church Organ Tuning a Specialty. A CHOICE LINE OF Plush Ornaments Arrasene, Cbemlle, Floss and all other articles Suitable for Needle Work. N. B.—Instructions given in Kensington and Lustro Painting by MRS. R. AYR WARD, Grant Block, up stairs, - - Milford. SIT FOR YOUR F 1 ©T® 0 EAF 1 S AT lOO MAIN STREET, MILFORD, AT K. L. WILLIS,. Since onr ]M:irch mimbor M e iinve received February, Marcli and Ajiril excbano-es amounting to eighty, with one special Easter number of the Crit¬ ic, The following new exchanges are tvelcome:— The School Visitor from Alpha, Oliio. Is one leaf left out, possibly— the one which contains the editorials or other original matter? The Sunbeam, witli its frank signing of the editor’s name to each depai’t- ment—its graceful calla lily design on the cover, and its entertaining con¬ tents. P’rom Fort Edward, N.Y., comes the “Prist’s.” May her jiresent race he as satisfactory as tliat of the olden time. And finally, the Emheanian, new to everybody else as ivell as to us, makes a fine first appearance. May it long fiourish, and continue to be, as its name imjdies—? All come again. The second miraher of the P. M. I. Bulletin is the square of its first in respect to quantity. At this rate of increase, ivliat ivill its seventeenth he ? By the ivay, Messrs. P. M. I. editors, why are the letters U V W and X Y Z as noms de jilume any worse than your own unexplained initials ? We like to review the philoso])hy of the Philosophian Review, when it demostrates that educated women do make better housekeepers. It is not our pmqiose to coiLStantly refer to the same papers, hut we can¬ not refrain from mentioning again in terms of the highest praise, the New¬ ton High School Review. Every de¬ partment seems ivell sustained. The school and debating societies appear to he in a flourishing condition, hut it is the literary department which par¬ ticularly attracts ns tins month. “Marvaine” begins a bright story. A. V. Pond contributes an article on “Les Nonveaux” in the art schools of Paris, which is so spicily written we half sus])ect he (?) has been there himself. But what arouses our spe¬ cial, personal gratitude is “K’s” Dante, with its illustration of the sombre jioet’s journey through the Inferno, Pnrgatorio and Farad iso. It has al¬ ways been an easy matter to follow the two poets as far as the center of gravity, hut their ])lnnging over at that point, to enable them to come out at the other side of the earth head first, has ])lungt ' d us into a mist of doubt as to Tvhere they really went after that. Now their course is as clear as the ])arallels and meridians on a school atlas, owing to the simple illustration in “K’s” article. Thank you. Review. Will some exchange be kind enough to tell us how many students there are in William and Mary college, and who rings the bell? We’d like to know. The “broom brigade” under the su¬ pervision of the Matron, is making its annnai tour of the buildings now.— [Kentucky Deaf Mute. What neat ])Cople they must be to need to sweep only once a year. Particularly pleasing to ns i.s the nr- tiede on Eliphalet Pearson in the Phil- lipian. We like the description, and then it brings to mind Holmes’ pic¬ ture of tlie awful giant of his boyhood, “Great Eliplialet (I can see him now, Biff name, big frame, big voice anil beetling brow.”) Enterprise :—Thanks. If you do not receive the O. L. and 1. regularly, it is not the fault of the business edi¬ tors. They very carefully mail a copy of every issue to every exchange, hut we fear (!) Uncle Sam’s fingers get somewhat clumsy occasionally, and onr little ])apcr slips through them. We are led to think so from experi¬ ence with home subscribers. The Oak, Lily and Ivy has long sighed for a cover. At last there is a prospect of its having one. No, don’t congratulate; condole, for its cover promises to he like that of the B D. It is in danger of becoming non est, of retiring under a cloud of hanknqitcy, of being wrajqied in the pall of oblivi¬ on, or shrouded in the fog of defeat. Its despairing cry is, “ ‘Help, Cassius, or we perish.’ Cassius, classmates, school-mates, scholars, teachers, gradu¬ ates, towns-people, somebody, anybody, give us funds or you’ll give us death !” On taking up the March Haverfor- diaii, several notes are found in pen¬ cil on the margin. On the cover is written, “Execilent number, fine pa¬ per, tyjie, etc,” and a kind of index, as follows:—Ex. PP. 88, 90, 92, 96. “Ex.”being the first unknown qnan- ti ' .y, we let it stand for exchange col¬ umn, whereupon is inscribed, “Dis¬ criminating exchange editor in Haver- fordian.” On P. 88 the editor is dis¬ turbed over the fact(?) that Haver- ford ian men do not use good English, and there is this ])enciiled comment, “A fault that is not local, but to be deplored as national.” P. 90 shows the sympathetic note, “Disa])proves of iconoclasm. Good I” and P. 92, by “Music and Song,” the following:— “Delicate analysis.” “Almost infers immortality from one’s power to love music.” “Good.” On a second read¬ ing there seems to he no reason for chancinir these annotations, unless to carry some of them from the ])ositive up to a higher degree of comparison.