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

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Elegant Perfumes. All of the delicate odors from Lulin, Atkirison, V right, Fal- mer, and the other leading makers of Europe o,nd this Country. RICE’S PHARMACY, Milford. IMARKED DOWN! ])r.Flatley’sCoiilSfrDi Is the most effectual remedy yet introduced. Every year the endorsements of this fact be¬ come stronger. Those suffering should not miss-an opportunity to try it. Made by J. ALLEN RICE, Milford, All Winter Overcoats and Suits at Cost. Latest Styles in HATS AND NECKWEAR. Or. DeJongh’s Catarrh Mixture Gives immediate relief to all eases of Catarrh, Asthma, In¬ fluenza, Hay Fever, Rose Cold, Cold in the Head, and diseases of like nature. This mixture is purely vegetable, and can be used by old dr young, with equal¬ ly beneficial results. Sent by mail on receipt of 25 cents. J. Allen Bice, Milford. Fine Stationery. Call at Rice’s Pharmacy and see the finest display of Royal Irish Linen, Boston Linen, Bos¬ ton Bond, Boston Bank Linen, etc., in all the new designs; ' also, Eleciric ' cverland mail for Foreign correspondence. ELEGANT LINE -OF- Full Dress Shirts! rrxES. Grile LEADING CLOTHIERS, Hale’s Block, . Milford, Mass. —XJ IT - NEW SPRING DRESS GOODS, --AT- G. T. Fales Co.’s. HAMBURGS, Largest Variety, IsTewest Patterns. Torchon and Medicis Laces, Table Linen, Napkins, Towels, Crashes, Nainsooks, Ladies’ Cotton Underwear. Bargains in Every Department LOWEST PRICES. SPECIAL DRIVED FOR TWO MONTHS! --IN- Children’s, Misses’ h Boys’ SCHOOL SHOES. Have the Largest Assortment ever offered any¬ where. Bargains in Ladies’ Goat and Kid Button Boots. Also, in Woolen Goods of all kinds. A Great Drive in Men’s and Boys’ Calf Goods. Price.s Way Down. Come All and See the Bargains at G. T. FALES CO., 154 MAIN ST., MILFORD, MASS. C, B, THOMPSON’S, 114 MAIN ST., MILFORD.

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O I ’r|IEv0 lK,vLmY|IYY. Published jVEonthly During the School Year, HY The Senior Class of the Milford High School, PRINTED BY G. M. BILLINGS. GEXER VL EDITGKS. INEZ L. GAY and CEAEENCE H. MOKGAN. PERSONAL EDITORS. HARRIET A. SMITH and HORACE A. BROWN. LOCAL EDITORS. ANNA M. W.VLICER and ROBERT C. HUSSEY. BUSINESS EDITORS. THERESA A. McCARTEN and HARRY P. CROSBY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. (Eight Numbers.) For the Year, . 35 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 he received. Address all communications to THE OAK, Lir.Y 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 hiqher than second class. Pride. It is not the purpose of this editori¬ al to set forth the evils of pride, but tlie advantages arising from it. If anyone wishes to get along in the world, he must have some personal pride, for, as a general rule, unless ive think Avell of ourselves, no one will think well of us When a ] erso!i constantly depreciates his own services and tells of how little account he is in the world, ive are willing to agree with him, instead of regarding him with the respect to which jierhaps he is really entitled. In school, esiiecially, pride is neces¬ sary if we wish to stand high in the estimation of our classmates and teachers. The scholar who does not care if he makes a failure day after day, and Avho has not pride enough to be ashamed to carry home a jioor re¬ port is always the one who never has perfect lessons and who is at the foot of his class. We all ouo-lit to have class as well as personal iiride, and do all in our power to make our class the best in school. Whatever enterprise ' s un¬ dertaken by the class as a whole, a class ])aper for example, should have the hearty sujiport of each member, for in this way alone can success be obtained. The jdeasure given to our teachers and parents by our good scholarship and deportment, and the pride ' that they feel in making out and signing good reports ought also to be a matter of ])ersonal jiride to us. We trust that all the scholars take enough jiride in the school to keep the reputation that we gained by our ex¬ hibition last February, and that each will contribute to the success of the coming exhibition by making as many articles as possilile. Soliloquy by Our Bell. (Continued from First Page.) change. They are just the same noisy, mischievous boys and girls that their fathers and mothers were. Y et I can¬ not feel for them the same affection as for those whom my voice, as it ran out for the first time, called from the sweet enjoyment of old fashioned sports to the task of learning hard lessons. I can see them yet, robust boys and Mdiolesome maidens, rustic perhaps, some of them sans collars, sans boots, but not sans everything, trooping in with sparkling eyes and rosy cheeks. Alas! they now are scattered far and wide. “One by one I have rung in the new classes and rung out the old, for each year has brought its fiock of children under my care, and each year has sent forth from these walls a band of young men and women ready to begin the b ttle of life. Have they struggled as nobly and successfully in their con¬ test with the world as they did in the school-room V 1 trust so. Perhaps none of them have become famous, perhaps none of them ever will, for the number of those who gain renown is very small in comparison with those who seek it, yet if they do their best in their sphere of life, however humble it may be, I am truly proud of them. “Hecalling the number of tliose who have entered and who have bade adieu to the school, I can say with ‘The Brook,’ if not in the exact ivords at least in sentiment, ‘Men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.’ ” At this affecting point, for it is in¬ deed affecting to hear a bell quote ])oetry, some movement on my ])art must have startled the speaker, for, as if fearful its solihxpiy might be over¬ heard, it relapsed into silence. I. L. G. ’85. “To meet the great w ' ork of Business Education, by placing within the op- jiortunity of every young man who avails himself of it a complete and thorough system of commercial in¬ struction, Eastman Business College was established.” See last page. Second Annual Industrial Exhibition. The following graduates have con- sented to be resjionsible for their re- sjiective classes in carrying out the l)lan, j)ro})osed in a former issue, for obtaining the ])rizes for Fast Day. They will endeavor to see every one of their classmates or reach them by letter, but would be pleased to have contributions sent them without fur¬ ther notice and at once. Books ivere never bought for so lit¬ tle money as now. For 45c, 67c, 75c and 87c, valuable and attractive books can be purchased, and these it will be as honorable to receive as those of twice their value. Then, too, the larger the number of jirizes, the greater the num¬ ber of scholars who will be made hap¬ py. Contributions of 5c, lOc, and 15c, according to the numbers in the class¬ es, will be sufficient. ’02, Miss M. A. Parkhurst.’TO, Mrs. Fred Swasey. ’63, Mrs. John S. Mayliew.’TO, Miss AlzieR.Hay ward. ’64, George H. Ball. ’77, Mrs. .Joseph H. Wood. ’65, Mrs. Chas. A. Dewey.’78, Lowell E. Fales. ’66, Clarence A. Suiuner. ’79, Miss Lilian Smith. ’67, Miss Susan M. Inman.’hO, Horace E. Whitney. ’68, Randall B. Greene. ’81, Herbert Eidridge. ’69, Gilbert M. Billings. ’82, Richard Gilfoyle and ’70, Mrs. Frank Spaulding. Miss Mary O. Sumner. ’71, Mrs. .James Leonard., ’83, Frank A. Morrill and ’72, Miss M. .1. Kelley, f Miss .Annie L. Harris. ’73, Mrs. W. H. Adair. ’81, R. II. Donohoe and ’74, Mrs.G.H. Whittemore. Miss Lottie T. Field. ’62 and ’67 have already reported. Kev. C. .1. White, our seventh prin¬ cipal, 1858 to 1869, writes us from Woonsocket, Iv. I., as follows: Thanks for the copy of the Oak, Lily and Ivy. It is a credit to the school of which you are members. Milford may take no little satisfaction, I am sure, in her High School. It is to me a pleasant thought that I was onc.e principal of it. In reply to your note, I left Milford in 1800; was cashier for B. U. Godfrey, 1801- 1802; in Boston, uSO-J; became p.astor of a church in Boston and remained with my parish till 1871. Have been a pastor here from that time to this. 1 still have the i ic- tures of my pirpils in Milford and when I get a c.ill from tliein now they laugh at their former solves. Wishing success. Yours, etc., G. .1. Wuitk. We regret tluit our crowded col¬ umns will not permit us to publish in full it very cordial letter from liev. G. L. Demarest, dated at Manchester, N. II. Below we give a brief (piotation : Whatever relates to the schools of .Milford, whatever developments they manitest, are of peculiar interest to me. My life in that town, though really but for a little more than five years, brought to me a peculiar liking for the people; and the public tru.st they reposed in me I .sought to fulfil with all due faithfulness. This led me to freciuent visitation of the schools; and I read .several items of your personals with much pleasure, because the names of men now grown, and women, too, represent to me the forms of school-boys and school-girls with which I be¬ came familiar during my four and one-half years term of service on the School Gom- mittee. It is now nearly twelve and one- half years since 1 removed to this busy city; but truly 1 would feel more at home in Mil¬ ford than here, because of the sociability of the people there.

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Vol. IV. MILFORD, MASS., FEBRUARY, 1888. No. 6 Three Typical Greeks. “Wine bibber, with the forehead of a dog And a deer’s heart! Thou never yet hast dared To arm thyself for battle with the rest, Nor join the other chiefs prepared to lie In ambush,—such thy craven fear of death.” S UCH Avere the Avords you might have heard, had you been stand¬ ing on the sea-sliore of Troy, tAvo thousand years ago. Who Avas the speaker? Achilles, the hero of the Iliad, a man Avho had a wider range of character than any other of the Greeks. He Avas angry Avith Aga¬ memnon, the commander of the Gre¬ cian forces, who had thre.atened to take away his prize. GroAving more angry as the quari’el continued, he Avas restrained from immediate deeds of violence only by divine in¬ terposition. Yet, when Agamem¬ non sent heralds to the tent of Achilles to take his prize, he re¬ ceived them kindly and gave it to them, thus showing his obedience and courtesy. As we shall see, however, the Avro!ig was not forgotten. For though he Avas the bravest warrior of all the Greeks, and the one the Trojans feared above all others ; and though he Avas longing to engage in the battles as Ixdore, he was too angry and had too much self respect to indulge his wish. Not until his friend Palroclus had been killed by Trojan Hector did his proud spirit relent. ' I ' lien his tierce anger was turned from th(“ Greeks to the Tro¬ jans, and he returmal to the tight, avenging his friend’s fall by the death of llc-ctor. But Avhen Hec¬ tor’s father, Pri.am, came and begged the body of his son, Achilles not only respected the helpless old man ami granted his ixupiest, but .ali o promised to retrain from the tight during the eleven days of the funer¬ al ceremonies. Let us turn to a brighter side of his character. He was a man Avho hated falsehood and denounced it in the strongest terms; a man who was open and truthful in his dealings with his associates. As an orator he Avas very out-spoken. We learn also that he was a filial son and a loving father. We see many of today, Avho, like him, possessing an intense nature, find it hard to forgive when they are injured. But who is that A dio stands in chest and shoulders above the others, who— “ ‘From place to place Walks round among the ranks of soldiery. As when the thick-fleeced father of the flocks Moves through the multitude of his white sheep?’ “ ‘That is Ulysses, the man of many arts, Of shrewd device and action wisely planned.’ ” Him I place next among the heroes of the Iliad. Although he is not Achilles’ equal, he ranks next to no other hero. Imagine to yourself the man as Homer paints him when— “He stood with eyes cast down, and fixed on earth. And neither moved his sceptre to the right Nor to the left, but held it motionless. Like one unused to public speech. He seemed An idiot out of humor. But when He sent from his full lungs his mighty voice. And words came like a fall of snow. No inoi tal then would dare to strive with him P’or mastery in speech.” His hearers Avere lost in Avonder and gave him their close iittention, for¬ getting all about his personal appear¬ ance. His words Avere never wasted, but Avere to the point, and when he referred to himself, it Avas only to nnike his statement stronger. He S] oke at times of crises, Avhen promi)t, decided action was needed. —he it was who said the right thing at the right time. What a daring deed it was for him to enter Troy in disguise and carry off the Palladium ! Then what inventive genius he shoAved in con¬ triving and building that mammoth horse, a piece of stratagem, by Avhich Troy Avas at last taken. What Avon- derful self-command and courage he must have had to keep himself and the others quiet, within the horse, Avhen the Trojans Avere standing around, wondering what it was for and threatening to destroy it. Hoav he longed to be restored to his home during his twenty long years of ab¬ sence ! What a wide experience those misfortunes must have given h im ! How quick to see a Avay out of danger! Hoav much greater an abili¬ ty to plan and perforin than he had before! Ulysses is a man Avho excels in many things. A man of great in- ventiA e genius, Avith a nature bal¬ anced betAveen prudence and daring. We find him represented, in one side of his character, by the inventors of this day. They have the ready Avit and the poAver to carry out Avhat they plan ; and some, too, may learn from him a lesson of patience and perseverance. “Now uprose Nestor, the master of persuasive speech, The clear-toned Pyliau orator, Avhose tongue Dropped words more sweet than honey, lie had seen Two generations, that grew up and lived With liim on Sandy Pylos, pass away. And now he ruled the third.” Nestor has not as broad a character as Achilles or Ulysses. At first glance, one might think him similar to Ulysses in some respects ; but he was not. True, he was an orator ; but one of an entirely different stain]). He used his gentle, flowip