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

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O . The toboggan craze has not yet reached Milford ; but we learn from the daily papers that many places “liave it bad.” It is another illustra¬ tion of the peculiarity of Americans. As Iris cuts off and bears away from the expiring spirit of the Skating Rink the lock sacred to Pluto, (after Vergil —a long way,) Toboggan, with the draperies of his blanket about him, and his tasseled cap in hand, makes his bow and bids for our quarters— and will get them, too. The fourth class have a A ' cry san¬ guinary appearance this term, and one would think that not only had they thirsted for one another’s blood, but liad got it. Do not be alarmed by this bloody introduction ; for it’s only the book-keej)ing class trying to learn how to use red ink. Having “painted the floor and themselves red” at the expense of the tovyn, they will then purchase, for hard cash, a second in¬ stalment with which to perform their legitimate work. The contest over the re-election of Senator Dawc ' S, the recent strike of the coal handlers, and the generous gift of INIr. ( ' lark of Worcescer, have been the subject of several short talks in our recitations the jiast week. It has Ix ' cn publicly acknowledged in the IMilford high school that wo¬ man should have hei- rights. In ac¬ cordance therewith the misses have been granted the privilege of attei d- ing a 8 o’cl ock session with the mas¬ ters. The girls agree in thinking the line had better be drawn before they realize any lisadvantages of said right. O How deeeitful are our eyes! If you doubt this exclamation just look at this page upside down and behold the S’s. Our attention was called to this subject by an article in the St. Nicholas which tells us how clever the Greeks were in deceiving the eyes. Their beautiful Doric columns were not quite straight, but a . little convex ; their horizontals were caused to rise a little in the center and thus appear perfect. “Indeed,” to quote tlie article mentioned, “the Parthenon, —the most beautiful building in the world,—when delicately and carefully measured, was found to be every¬ where a little incorrect, so that it may appear right, which is certainly what rnav be called an architectural ])ara- dox.” “A man has invented a chair that can be adjusted to eight hundred different positions.” What a chair this wouhl be for—well, perhaps it would not ])roper to call names, and so we shall say for several of us! The immense power of the ice-flow j in the glacial age has Ix ' en impressed upon our minds by the Washington boulder situated near Conway Corner, N. H. This boulder is as long as oui‘ large school-room(45 ft.), just as wide (35 ft.), and as high as from the cellar bottom to the ceiling, including the lower rooms (35 ft.). This is dated piece of granite is the largest known in the world, and is estimated to weigh 38G7 tons. What a mighty moving force this must have been ! S. Elbe Reed, ’86, has gone to Win¬ chester, N. H. Ella F. Carpenter, ’68, is a teacher in Cambridge. O Stearns Godfrey, ’65, is an eminent violinist of Boston. Allen Hartwell, formerly of ’89, is oflice boy for Dr. G. L. Cooke. Ella T. Chilson, ’82, started for Gib¬ bon, Nebraska, Monday, Jan 17. Ernest Fletcher, ’84, has been elect¬ ed president of the Episcopal guild. George E. Patrick, ’68, is chemist for the Bradley Fertilizer Company. Herbert L. Holmes, ’71, has re¬ moved from South B:)ston to Milford. Hattie Coburn, ’88, entertained the Lawn Tennis club at a progressive euchre party New Year’s eve. Dr. Samuel N. Nelson, ’73, has been engaged as assistant by Dr. Marcy, the eminent surgeon of Boston. The wife of J. W. Allard, one of our former school superintendents, died in South Framingham, Dec. 31. Maude Hapgood has returned to the P ilends’ School in Providence, R. I. Wilmarth, formerly of ’87, and Westcott, ’86, are our representatives at the Brown Scientific School. Aaron Mayhew, English ’85, is per¬ forming the duties of Charles Weth- erby at the Milford National Bank while the latter is away. H. B. Spaulding, ’89, has just com- ])leted a fine specimen of a])paratus, a Barker’s mill. It has two arms and throws its water into a large milk pan. The class leaders for last term were Miss Hancock of the first class; Mas¬ ter Tirrell of the second ; Miss Leon¬ ard of the third; Miss Mathewson of the fourth. Nellie F. (Torman, ’84, teacher in the City school, and Miss Hannah M. Broderick, ’75, were pleasantly sur¬ prised with tokens of respect from their puj)ils on New Year’s. Wv should say “hal-lowed be thy ; name.” 4’wo syllables, not three. On account of the bad walking school was closed one day of the first week. i School was closed Dec. 24 and re¬ opened .Ian. 3 with one hundred and six scholars. Geology 1. Teacher: What do i people go hunting for in the West? Scholar: For wolves. ! ! h ' ' rozen fingers and ears rewarded the faithful for attendance on Wednes¬ day, the 19th inst. | On account of the drawing we are | obliged to change the order of recita- | tions for Thursdays and Fridays. | Some of the scholars who live near j the s-hool cared for the plants at their homes during the vacation. The M. L. T. C., all but two being | either graduates or present meml ers | of the M. il. S., gave a party in Ar- ' mory Hall, Dec. 29. Geology 1. Teacher: “Where are all the tiles now?” Scholar: “They are all dead.” How jdeasant it will be not to be troubled by them in warm weather! Miss H. B. Clark’s recitation of | “How Girl’s Study” at the second i lecture of the teachers’ course was “too true,” aud was appreciated by j teachers and scholars. | Physiology IV’ . Teacher: “What often happens to a person at a theatre when there is too tnuch CO. , in the air?” Scholar: ' ■ Yon would go to i sleep.” A young man in the Geology class thought tile Megatherium was a lazy i animal because he had large feet. If ’ large feet are a sign of laziness, there i o “ ' I are a great many lazy persons. Physiology I ' .: “Did you ever take CO 2 into your lungs?” “No sir, I don’t think I have.” “What a for¬ tunate young man!” Another: “What I is a quadruped?” “1 don’t know.” “Are you one?” “I dont t iin v I am.” Still another : “How does man resist heat ?” “By putting on more clothing to keep it off.” I Generally a stranger can tell the girls’ side of the school room from the boys’ by a rapid glance at the desks, whenever he visits a school. In ours, however, he will be deceived ; for the fashion of trimming dresses with but¬ tons, not as large as jilates, has done more mischief to the backs of the seats and the edges of the desks than the average bov’s knife. Glacial action is well represented.

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I vir. JAXUAKY, 1887. Published Monthly During the School Year, BY The Senior Class of the Milford High School. PRINTED BY G. M. BILLINGS. GENKRAIi KDITORS. AMELIA C. HARRIS and W. PARKHURST. PKUSOXAL EDITORS. LYDIA F. GOULD and FRED J. AYL YARD. LOCAL EDITORS. SARAH M. GORMAN and FRANK J. MORIARTY BUSINESS EDITORS. GRACE W. EASTMAN and MARY E. WHITNEY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. (Ton Numbers.) For the Year, . 40 cents | Single Copies, . 5 cents This paper is for sale at the u-ell-knou-n 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-Ollice, as second class matter. The first of tlie series of six lectures and entertainments held in this build¬ ing, Avas delivered Wednesday, the 5th inst., by Cluis. Wesley Emerson, M. D., president of the Monroe Col¬ lege of Oratory, Boston. He spoke very interestingly to a good sized aud¬ ience, composed of nearly all the school teachers of Milford, and many others who are interested in educa¬ tional niattei ' S, upon the subject, “The Pulpit, Platform and Stage,” This lecture was instructive and ivas fully a])preciated by the attentive audience. Dr, Emerson says that a public speak¬ er should always talk in his natural tone of voice, and his illustrations of how some ministers s])eak and of the “freewill Baptist’s swing” Ave re very amusing. We are glad to see that quite a number of the scholars of this school attend these entertainments, but Avish that more would do so ; as they would find them both interesting and instructive. The customary changes Avere made in the studies at the beginning of the new term. Geology gives way to Civil GoA ' ernment in the first class, and tAvo of tin English scholars take llhetoric, and three Chemisti’y. In the second class, a jiart of the pupils drop Literature and take u]i Chemis¬ try, Avhile the rest kecq) on in Litera¬ ture, studying “Ivanhoe.” The third class begin Phiglish History and Rhetoric, dropjiing Geometry and Physical Geograjihy. The new study of the fourth class is Book-keeping. Our large schooli-oom is unusually i Avell ventilated, but the rear recitation rooms on the same floor have been, until this term, poorly provided Avith sufficient change of air. During the vacation recess a SAvinging window has been placed above the rear door in each room, opening into the entry, thus allowing a change of air and es- c.ajie of chalk dust without creating a direct drauglit. “How swift is the fiiglit of time.” On the day of our last issue we were look¬ ing forward to the holidays with bright anticipations; now they are a thing of the past for this year, yet many ])leasant memories have they left. The meeting of quondam school¬ mates Avho noAv grace college-halls helped to fill our ciqi of pleasure. But duty loudly called at the close of one short Aveek, and at its bidding each donned his armor and all Avere mus¬ tered again into the ranks. Noav joy¬ ous hilarity is not the order of the day. NeAV Year’s Avas quite generally ob¬ served in Milford this year by keeping “open house,” Although in the early part of the day it seemed as though canoes might be in demand by those desirous of making calls, yet the num¬ ber of callers was greater than in the previous years. The custom of ob¬ serving the day originated Avith Washington. Good substantial dough- nuts (not necessarily Framingham), Avith coffee, Avere the refreshments of the time. Washington said he hoped the custom might always prevail. “So say Ave all of us.” As many of us will end our school life in six months from noAV, hoAV eager should Ave be to grasp all Avitliin our reach while opportunity is offered. As in some cases our future imrsuits will allow little time to be given to the continuance of our mental culture, should not all our energies be concen- trated to the one view of making our own all noAV offered us. Some appar¬ ently reason in another Avay, as though feeling that it may also be their last six months of freedom, and they must make the best of it, have as good a time as possible, and study only as much as necessity demands. But all too late they Avill see their error. The day will certainly come Avhen they will Avish their aim had been higher. These must find their fiiends among those who, like themselves, have squandered their op])ortunities. The advice of our elders, when asked their opinion of the value of an education, is so unanimous that there can be no doubt of what every scholar in this school owes to his parents and to him¬ self. Good resolutions, although made with the firmest intention, are more often broken than kejit, Hoav many out of the number made Avould Ave venture to say the majority of jiersons keej) for tAventy-four hours. But as¬ suredly Ave would not discourage any one from resolving to do better in the future! On the contraiy, Ave earnestly recommend the scholars to make them for this term if no longer. Resolve to be punctual, to learn the lessons assigned to us, and above all to act as gentlemen ' and ladies should act; and then if but a third is kept, some improvement Avill certainly be manifest. As Civil Government is a very prac¬ tical study, the method of teaching it that Avill arouse the interest and be most beneficial is desired. As an ex- jieriment this year,Ave have begun with the study of the government of our own town. From that Ave shall work out- Avard to the county and state, and finally to our country. Naturally, in taking the study in this way, a scholar, after having applied himself to the local institutiom, if his bump of curiosity is of moderate size, Avill be led to search farther to learn wherein our government differs Irom that of foreign nations. As Ave lay aside our geologies, Ave cannot but feel more deeply impressed with the Avonders of this earth of ours. We have traced its history from the melted sphere to the existence of great continents, Avith mountains and plains, Avith lake and river systems ; Ave have learned of its varying clim¬ ates and its living adornments, both vegetable and animal; Ave have fol¬ lowed the progress in life from the simple to the complex, from the hori¬ zontal to the vertical; Ave have tried in vain to bridge that mighty chasm between the man-ape Avith 34 cubic inches of brain to the bushmen with 68, and have tried so to conduct ourselves as not to be taken for the “mis.sing link.” Finally, Ave have joy¬ fully been tauglit that our great-great- great-grandchildrcn, Avhen looking at our pictures in future ages, Avill not be able to laugii at our odd shapes and our stunted bodies, although they may question our claims to beauty and Avonder hoAv Ave could live so long and know so little. In Geology Ave learned that man Avas a neAv cause of the extinction of species, and in corroboration of this Prof. Baird, of the Smithsonian Insti¬ tution, rejiorts that the buffalo has jiractically ceased to exist in the LTiiited States.

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Xj Z XjIZT. Buy Ladies’ and Misses’ IMEEfS WEliPS NEWMAKKETS, DKESS GOODS, Etc. of J. F. HICKElTj 138 MAIN STREET MILFORD. PURE DRU8S AND MEDICINES AT LAMSON’S PHARMACY. Try Lamson’s Cough Syrup at 25 and 26 Cents a bottle. Your money refunded if it does not relieve. Jk. EAK If. Corner of Main and Exchange Sts. GO TO O- Xdl. ZD lvIS’, 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. EvGrett ChonGy 136 Main Street, Milford. -FOR FINE- BOOTS. SHOES, -AN I SLIPPERS In all the Leading Styles, go to R, P. PAD LEV ' S 123 Main Street, Milford. DENTIST aEO. L. COOKE, D. D. S. Rooms over Milford National Bank, 178 MAIN STREET, - - MILFORD, C. F. WIGHT, TUNEK AND REPAIKER OF • PI N0f5 7IND Warerooms in Washington Block, Milford. |II “Church Organ Timing a Si)ecialty. ELDREDGE BEATTEY, HOUSE PAINTERS and PAPER HANGERS, And Dealers in Doors, .Sash, Blinds, Window Glass, Paints, Oils, Varnish, Putty, Curtain Fixtures, Window Shades and Paper Hangings. 133 Main Street, Milford, Mass SIT F O It Y O UR PI 0 T 0 GSAPIS AT lOO MAIN STREET, MILFORD, AT E. L. WILLIS,. (Continued.) CANOEING ON MEMPHREMAGOG. TV ' ’ith Rambling Remarks. “For I am tlie captain of my craft. My word is law from fore to aft. I am the cook and steward too, I am tlie passengers and crew.” Tuesday, August 10. Another pleasant morning! We are wondering if such Aveather can last much longer. Buoyed up by tlie beans purchased yesterday, we set off early for Georgeville, but with a head wind. We sought the lee of all points and islands, to catch onr breatli and a little rest, and then we fought onr way around the next point. There is not as mnch excitement on a lake as on a river, as lieyond that ne.xt point we do not have any reason to expect rapids or a Avater-fall. Tliere are five islands Ixltween Magog and Georgeville in onr course. One little gron[) is named Three Sisters, very suggestive of “the three little maids.” By this zigzagging, we deeply impressed onr geometry lesson of otlicr days, regarding, straight lines and iieai-e.st distaiice.s, and we Avondered how mnch farther than the steamer’s course of ten miles ours was. We reached onr White Bii’cli Camp of Sunday, at noon, with onlv the loss of a rndder-hlade,owing to a conflict between the wind, iTidder, and a sunken rock; landed, re-inserted our humeri at the shoulder, and dined; found a S|)ring of ice-cold Avater only a quarter of a mile from camp, but invariably became very thirsty again before reaching camj). We have been surprised at the number of good boats which we have seen along shore, and tlie care they receive. Every farmer seems to he Tvell provid¬ ed, and a poor boat is an exee|)tion. Cedar laji-streaks, ribbed, with round bottom and a good keel, seemed to he the favorite. The wind left ns earlier than nsnal, so that we got away at 4 o’clock, and reached Jewett I oint, trolling as we paddled, at camping time. The average perch of this lake is large, a hiilf pound one being very common, and we soon had enough for supper and breakfast. On the way, M’e passed two men in a I v 4 I . 1 y-v « « k m A I-. A...... .1 — F 1 FI 1 T T 1 . 1 hey did not seem to boat, struggling along with a triangular raft of lo s. think it fun ; whereas, our 7oork Tvas ‘loi. What a difference there is be tTveen Avork and—work! No spring or brook to make a jierfect camp ! Oth¬ erwise its central position would have made it very desirable. We have failed to mention the fact that tlie time of our trip was regulated by the moon. We started with the first quarter and now had the pleasure of a moon nearly hut as steady, nevertheless, as ever. This night, like others, was so beautiful upon the Avater tliat it seemed Avroiig to sleep it aAvay, hut Ave did. We judged that others had a similar feeling, for Avheuever Ave aAvoke, voices and the sound of oars came to our ears. “O’er no sweeter lake Shall morning break or noon-elond sail. No fairer face than thine shall take The sunset’s golden veil.” Wednesday, August 11. The morning of a typical dog day, misty, gloomy, depressing! But here conies the sun to draw the veil and change the expression of Nature’s face and our OAvn. As Ave “t«i-folded the draperies of onr conch” and looked out over the Avaters, we found that Ave Avere being inspected by a loon, only a few feet off; hut lie, she or it, startled by onr “good-morning,” suddenly remembered an apjiointmeiit lie liad Avitli some fresh-Avnter Nejitnne, and dove down to meet it. We think he has returned, hut a long Avatcliing did not discover him. Off for i Allan’s Point! Here Ave had a beautiful vicAV of the Avikl shore opposite, and also met the “Lady” on her morning trip. There is a trifle of danger and considerable excitement Avhen her Avake readies ns, and Ave en¬ joyed heading ai-ouml for it Avhenever she passed. At this point, our horne- Avard trip turned to the east and left tlie doAvnward, AA heii ucav scenes met onr eyes. Just around the point is the Allan boat-house, a huge affair, large enough to hold a good-sized steamboat. We jiaddled into its ojien end foi a short rest before fighting the strong Aviiid then hloAving, then hugged the shore until AA’C got into the lee of Molson’s Island, Avhere Ave discovered a plastered log-cahin, mined and deserted,—“one of the real old settlers.” It is now a sheejifold, and a large number of sheep have tlie run of the island,—an excel- Of course, we “took” lent place—no dogs, no fences, and a plenty of Avater. it, also a picture of one of the canoes in motion. Here, too, Ave found onr first and only Avater-lily. We siqiposed that there Avere others, hut did not see 1