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

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14 was granted a leave of absence to answer the call to the nation’s defense. Miss Mary FitzPatrick resigned her position after five years of faith¬ ful service to accept a position in the Worcester school. To her we owe our heartfelt appreciation for her efforts in our behalf. When we re¬ turned for our fourth and final year of study we welcomed to our teach¬ ing force Miss Agnes Lynch as teacher in commercial subjects. Six weeks of the school year was lost during the influenza epidemic and dur¬ ing this period our classmate Raymond Grayson left us to join the Avia¬ tion Section of the United States Army. While we had just cause in feeling saddened at his departure, we also took great pride in the thought that we had given forth a soldier, during his course of study, to join the vast body of Uncle Sam’s fighting men. We also enjoy the proud realization that he is back with us to-night to take part in the graduation exercises of his class. It was during this year that our social events were the greatest. Two successful dances were held in Town Hall under the auspices of the class, one on January 17, and the other on May 27, a total of $173.00 be¬ ing realized from these events. Part of this money has been donated to the Athletic Association and part to the library fund. On January 8 two plays entitled, “The Obstinate Family” and “The Hollytree Inn” were presented in the Assembly Hall by a cast made up of Seniors, before an audience which filled the hall. Well deserved credit was accorded the players and their instructor for the remarkable success of the pro¬ duction. On February 3 of this year at a reception in the Assembly Hall, our class, assisted by the Juniors, welcomed Mr. FitzGerald who rose from the rank of private to first lieutenant, and Mr. Berry back to their positions as principal and sub-master of the school. The originality of a class has heretofore never been so emphatically manifested as was ours in our Class Day, held on Monday of this week. Class Day to Milford High school meant an event new and unexper¬ ienced, but our celebration this year v as a splendid success and to us be¬ longs the credit of introducing a practical event as a precedent for succeeding graduating classes. The day’s program consisted of the planting of a class tree on Town Park, that the memory of the class of 1919 might long be cherished by undergraduates, races, ball games, and other sports, which gave proof of the athletic ability of so many of our members. In the afternoon at a mystery program, suitable gifts in accordance with each person’s hobby were presented to each of the class. In the evening a most enjoyable social was held in the Assembly Hall consisting of an entertainment followed by dancing. It is our hope, that we have instituted in our celebration of Class Day, a lasting custom in the High School and that future graduating classes will follow our illustrious example in that regard. As we stand looking out upon the future, let us pause to-night to express our heartfelt appreciation to our instructors who have labored conscientiously and earnestly for our advancement that we might at¬ tain the golden goal to-night, graduation. In parting, we sincerely hope that we will bring future credit upon our teachers, our Alma Mater and ourselves by remembering our class motto ever dear, “Facta Non Ver¬ ba”, “Deeds Not Words.” Joseph T. Murphy THE INSPIRATION OF GOOD LITERATURE It is impossible to overestimate the value of good literature in all its forms. It is an ever-flowing fountain at which all may be refreshed. Through it our minds are lifted above our every-day lives, we are

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15 enabled to pierce the veil of the Infinite, and come into closed communion with all that is best and noble, for it is here that the highest thoughts of noble minds and the great truths of life are recorded. The treasure- house of literature has been stored with the fruits of minds of all ages and all lands, from ancient Greece and Rome, whose noble contributions to the written records of man have been added to and developed, to modern times. It is like a stream that has grown into a great river from many other streams and from many sources. All truly great men have added to their own lives by absorbing the teachings of others, and from the beautiful thoughts and truths offered by great minds, our own minds acquire culture and a taste for what is true and beautiful. Literature is made more pleasing by its various forms. One of the largest and most delightful forms of literature is poetry, and this subject covers a wide-str etching field in itself. The study of the best poetry is comparable to a pleasure trip. Sublime thoughts in the most pleasing language awaken our souls with their lofty inspiration. Con¬ stantly in poetry new pleasures are met with, or forgotten joys of childhood or youth are resurrected, and the reader experiences them once more. Ihe great forces and works of Nature are vividly portrayed. By a few lines of verse the solemnity of the pine-clad mountains, the freedom of the plains, and the stillness of the forest depths are brought to us. Who, after reading the description of a June day in Lowell ' s “Vision of Sir Launfal” has not experienced the beauty of that day, though he read it in mid-winter? Where is there a nobler monument to virtue than that raised by Milton in his “Comus?” “He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i’ the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Himself is his own dungeon. In Milton’s “Sonnet to his Blindness we see the patience and faith of a great mind in affliction. Another lesson from Milton’s “Comus’’ is the advice given by the departing Spirit as he returns to the celestial regions from the “dim spot that men call earth:’’ “Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb, Higher than the sphery chime.’’ In William Cullen-Bryant’s “Thanatopsis’’ we read the whole phil¬ osophy of life couched in these lines: “So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take LI ' S chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.’’ Because of its effect on the emotions poetry has been used to stir men’s minds against evil or to do good, and so has brought about many reforms. It has been used, for example, by many poets to celebrate courage, bravery and patriotism as Tennyson has done in his “Charge of the Light Brigado.’’ In Tennyson’s “Idylls of the King’’ the reader is introduced to a new and magical world of lofty thought and poetry, and in the idyll of “Lancelot and Guinevere,’’ we learn that position and