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

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OAK, LILY AND IVY. 13 ors are to be adjudged according to the number of games lost. The League staff of baseball umpires who served last spring were re-elected for the ensuing year, with the proviso that further candidates will be considered at the next meeting of the League. The date of the annual meeting, hitherto held in Janu- ary, was fixed for the second Saturday after Thanksgiving, to bring the football season to a close and make the official pennant awards. The football schedule fpr 1913, the proposal of a Midland League Track meet in May, and the ques¬ tion ol an authorized League baseball will be discussed and acted on at a special meeting of the directors to be held in Framingham on F eb. 8. FROM . OUR EXCHANCES B.T uHNtn. . W e heartily welcome the following Exchanges and hope we may see you each month. 4 ' ’High School Review.” Your paper is attractive, interesting and neat. The stories are well written and show plainly you have talent in your school. Why not take some simpler subject for one or more of your stories? We are interested to see what you could do on an imaginative subject. We wish you every success in your paper. “The oice.” We are glad to welcome you and hope we may exchange regularly with you. Some cuts would vastly improve your paper, and make it more interesting, although it is better than it looks. Your Exchanges are well written and original. Insert some stories in a lighter vein. We are especially interested in the “Gleaner” and give it cordial welcome. V our stories are good and of the calibre that make school papers interesting. We enjoyed “An Adventure on Lonely Island,” also “Mrs. Thorne’s Own Day.” As the Exchange Column is to criticize the papers in a friendly way, why not express your opinion of each one you receive? “The Magnet.” We see no acknowledgement of our paper in your Ex¬ change Column. Is it possible it has not been received? Your paper is well balanced and on the whole good. “Little Jacques at the Storming of the Bas- tile” is full of life and action and as a result is well done. “The Red and Gray” comes up to its usual high standard this month. You aie developing a genius that bids fair to outrival Shakespeare in writing plays. It is somewhat different from what we found in any other Exchange and “vari- ety is the spice of life.” The edition is very interesting and “A Christina Story” is splendid. We can suggest no improvements. “The Imp,” for December is unusually good, and we enjoyed you very much. Come again. One of our Exchanges inquired why we called our paper the “Oak, Lily, and Ivy,” When the paper was founded in 1884, the motto “Strength, Purity and Tenacity” was chosen, and the title of our paper symbolizes these virtues for which we strive. “The Amygdaloid” is a good paper, but oh, dear! The print is so tiny. Get a few cuts and an exchange column if you want to improve your paper. is

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I 2 OAK, LILY AND IVY. And to write a splendid novel, On H. Shultz when she’s of age. Beatrice Newcomb—sedate Junior; Knows the fine points of the game, She’s especially fond of foot-ball, Goes more than do the other dames. Just look here ! If that’s not Johnson, Loyalty has drawn him back, Junior class thought they had lost him, To the West he’s soon to pack. Alma Sweet is their musician, Helen Twitched school enjoys, And Gert Tower’s fond of dancing, Yinnie Woodbury? Horrid noise! Here’s Ralph Ward, the grave young fellow, For himself he’ll make a name. Dorcas Whipple’s fond of joking, And a studious, well bred dame. Harold Whitney and Bruce Warfield, The worst imps in that whole class! Always making a disturbance, Bothering every lad and lass. But, continued the grave Senior, With a sigh that touched my heart, We’re in hopes to plant some knowledge, In that class before we part. Midland League Banquet. The directors of the Midland League, with the faculty directors of athletics from the schools represented, were entertained last evening in the Fram¬ ingham High School at a sumptuous dinner prepared and served in artistic per¬ fection by the young ladies of the domestic science department of that school. After the banquet, Dr. Geo. Hermann Derry, principal of the Milford High School, on behalf ol the directors of the league, delivered the congratulatory ad¬ dress, to which Principal Cushing of Framingham made a genial response. At the annual meeting which ensued, it was voted that henceforth all foot¬ ball officials, referee, umpire and head linesman, shall be selected by the home team; and the maximum salary of such officials, which during the past season has proved a bugbear to financially embarrassed teams, was fixed at a reason¬ able rate by a League regulation. In determining the football championship, the directors decided that, to forestall a recurrence of the Marlboro-Hudson dis¬ pute about the rating of tie-games, the pennant shall be awarded to the school securing the highest percentage of victories, tie games to count as contests played but not won ; between two teams still tied on this computation, the hon-

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OAK, LILY AND IVY. H In looking over the Exchanges we invariably pick out those that look inter¬ esting, and the “Argonaut” is one of them. “The Triumph of Ebenezer Doo¬ little” is great, and in fact all your stories are that. We welcome you heartily. “The Aegis.” A splendid paper. Enjoyed reading you very much. The only criticism we can make is—don’t mix your advertisements with the rest of the paper; it gives a jumbled appearance. The “Dean Megaphone” seems to be mixed this month. It hasn’t as good an appearance as usual. Wouldn’t it be better to put everything pertaining to Athletics under that head? Your paper is certainly excellent on the average. The “Palmetto” is an interesting paper and would be greatly improved by a few more cuts. It really does look “dry,” but in this case looks are deceiving. We like the idea of having all the advertisements in t he back. You are very neat and attractive, “Index,” but where is your Exchange Column? “A Tangled Web” is the best story we have seen in any of the Exchanges. We like your paper very much and hope to see it every month. The Christmas number of the “Advance” is an improvement over the other numbers. We think the cover is very pretty. May we suggest that you criticize all of your Exchanges? Found in the Exchange Column of the Oak, Lily and Ivy of December, 18S4, the following: “When Harvard first opened its doors it had three students, two college seniors and a freshman. In one of Dr. Holmes’ Harvard poems occurs this verse : ‘And who were on the catalogue When college was begun? Two nephews of the president And the professor’s son : Lord ! how the seniors knocked about That freshman class of one.’ ” “The Blue Owl.” You are one of the most interesting papers we receive. We are curious to know why it was given that name. The students of the High School desire to thank the class of 1S87 for the books that they presented to the school on the occasion of their twenty-fifth anni¬ versary of their graduation. The books were: Green’s Short History of the English People, Tennyson’s Works, Representative Poems from Milton to Tennyson, and the Tree Book, and Huffcut and Woodruff’s Cases on the Law of Contracts. 1903. Dr. Elmer E. Thomas, of Northampton, Mass., passed the Christmas holi¬ days with his parents.