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

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Oak, Lily and Ivy. 17 Milford was without a football game Saturday, October 2, as the Worces¬ ter Classical team cancelled the game scheduled for that date, and as Manager Hickey was unable to secure another team. At a meeting of the Athletic Association Wednesday September 22, the following officers were elected for the year: President, Mr. FitzGerald; Secre¬ tary, Anna Healy, ’16; Committee, Michele DeFilipis, ’16, Chairman, Doris Bar¬ nard, ’16, Fred Niro, ’17. Miss Ford: Oxygen aids combustion; hydrogen is a combustible, and water—” O’Brien: Water puts it out.” Mr. Berry in algebra: Now that you have the 4x, tell me how to get the x.” Miss Cervone: Well, my mother always said to get it by the handle, for fear I should get hurt.” Kimball (soliloquizing): I want to be a doctor, but whether a medical or a dental, I don’t know.” Hickey: “Veterinary would be the best, I think.” Miss Callanan (in English): “Gaffny, read to the class your description of a nickel.” Gaffny: A Nickel is a piece of money, made of a malleable and ductile metal after which it takes its name. It is worth five whole cents. It has a diameter which I do not know and a circumference 3 1-7 times the diameter.” Freshman: “My feet were so cold this morning that I was unable to IrM the pen in my hand.” Miss Swift (Translation): “Le matelot, sans repondre, se mit a siffler.”

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16 Oak, Lily and Ivy. The pennant so gloriously won by our heroes of the diamond, Milford High School Base-Ball Team, has arrived, and now ornaments the wall of our assem¬ bly hall. It is a crimson banner with gold trimmings and lettering, and bears the inscription: Midland Inter scholastic League Base-Ball Championship , 1915 , won by Milford High School. The recent statement of Mr. FitzGerald, treasurer of the Athletic Associa¬ tion shows the financial condition of the organization to be very good, $151.72. being in the treasury in September, Milford High has this year very promising material for a championship football team. First call for practice was answered by a squad of thirty candi¬ dates. Seven veterans a re left from last year’s squad, and around these men a fast eleven is assured under the diligent coaching of Messrs. Berry and Cenedella. The veterans are Capt. Olivieri, Hilton, Sprague, Vesperi, Zurlo, Morelli, and Dalton. Among the recruits are Grayson, G. Bruce, J. Bruce, Larkin, Solari, Kelley, E. Nelson, J. Nelson, J. Gaffney, McClure, L. Shea, H. Shea, Spindle, Cal¬ abrese, Candini and F. Gaffney. The schedule follows: Sept. 28 Milford at Worcester Trade. Oct. 2 Worcester Commercial at Milford. 9 Boston College High School at Milfod. 12 Alumni at Milford. (A. M.) 16 Walpole High at Milford. 20 Framingham at Milford. 23 Marlboro at Milford. 30 Open Nov. 6 Natick at Milford. 13 Westboro at Milford. 17 Milford at Framingham- 20 Norwood at Milford. 25 Open. On September 28 the team journeyed to Worcester and there were defeat¬ ed to the tune of 60 to 0 by the heavy Worcester Trade eleven. Considering class and weight of the Worcester team, Milford’s showing was not so bad as the score would indicate.

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Oak, Lily and Ivy. 18 “The sailor, without answering, took out his whistle.’, Voice From the Rear: “ What was it, a flute or a piccolo?” Freshman: “I thought you said you knew all the bright pupils in your class.’’ Junior: “Of course I do, but I don’t have to associate with them.” Heard in the Chemistry Laboratory: “If an explosion should take place here now, and the life of one of your classmates were in danger, what would you do?” Goucher (promptly): “Run for the door.” Miss Barry: “Gee, what a hero!” Pupil to his mother: “Ma, my teacher told me this morning that I laugh so much over nothing.” Mother: “Don’t come home and tell me the same thing again, for if you do I will make you cry so much more over something.” % j Miss Ford: “Hydrogen united with air explodes. In preparing hydrogen and testing its properties what caution would you take in order to avoid the ex¬ plosion. Clarridge, “Abandon the idea of performing the experiment.’’ Miss Pianca (in French): “Boy, your translation is terrible.” Pupil: “I know it, but it is not my fault. My mother often tells me that terribleness is a quality which I inherited from my father.’’ Jones (to a group of Freshmen): “Who is the strongest boy in your class? Macchi (expanding his chest): “Why, I be.’’ Miss Larkin: “Tell us what you think of woman suffra ge, O’Brien.” O’Brien: “I think women should not vote because their place is in the home.” Miss Barnard: Your argument is weak. I go to the pictures nearly every day and I notice that the women form the majority of the attending body. Miss Larkin (History A): “Now, Miss Healy, what did Captain James Smith do?” Miss Healy: “Er—he—oh he founded the James River.” Miss Birmingham (Com’l Law): “How have the statutes changed the law in regard to married women’s contracts, Murphy?’’ Muryhy: “Oh! er—before a married woman can make contracts, her hus¬ band must be dead, divorced, in jail, or intoxicated.”