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

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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.”

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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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