Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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THE GOLDEN ROD. LOCAL. THE WOODWARD FUND. EDITED BY Pauline Wilkins, Walter Sampson. Physics IIL gives us the informa- tion that an elephant has one tusk. Physics III—A plumb-line is a line with something on the end to make a straight line. French III.—Teacher—What is the word for child in French? Pu pi 1 —L -la-la-la enfa nt—I en- fant. A Fish swallowed a Stone, and was Lulled to sleep in Souther-n seas. [See the editors for a dia- gram of this joke.] We notice a few empty glasses about the rooms, which signify to our sorrow the approaching end of the flower season. Algebra IV.—A pupil giving the answer to her example after ex- plaining, said “7 A-men,” instead of “7 equals A’s men.” Although we have so smart and industrious a fourth class, ,some do not appear to know their names when suddenly called upon. Physiology II.—Teacher—Why should we keep our finger-nails pointed ? First pupil to the next—To scratch you with. Should a former pupil of the school happen in to see us, she would probably miss the autograph album in the girls’ ward-room, for the walls have just been re-papered. A teacher, having told a pupil to rap on the door at the close of the study hour, heard a knock soon afterwards, and said, “That boy has lost his head.” On opening the door and meeting the principal of another school, he said, “O, you ’re the boy that lost his head.” We are glad to know that on ac- count of the continuous use of the blacking brush in the boys’ hall, it has recently become unable to per- form its work. We are very sure a new one will soon be provided. However, we congratulate the boys on their desire to improve their appearance. WHAT is the Woodward Fund? Who or what is Woodward? These questions are constantly being asked by new- comers, and I dare say many pu- f pils who have attended the Quincy schools for several years cannot answer them. So let us read over a few pages of history, and learn that Dr. Ebenezer Woodward was a worthy and respected physician of Quincy, who lived between the years 1791 and 1869. After grad- uating from Dartmouth College, (N. H.) he began the study of medicine under the instruction of Dr. Isaac Hurd, continuing it with his uncle, Dr. Samuel Adams. Finally he entered Harvard Medi- cal school, from which he gradua- ted in 1823, and commenced the practice of his profession. Such was the man to whom we are indebted for the fund which is, in course of time, to establish a “female institute.” In this school all the higher branches of learning will be taught to the native born young ladies between the ages of ten and twenty years; for none others but these will be allowed Jo attend. The management, so far as choosing instructors, studies, etc., is to be forever controlled by the settled clergymen of the city; and it was the wish of Dr. Woodward that the school should be as well conducted and as high in every way as any such institute in the state. Will this institute be a benefit to Quincy? We hope it will. However, a high school must be maintained, whether it is attended by sixty or one hundred sixty. But at this time we should lose only sixty-five by the change, and in our present circumstances we could very well spare that number. The question then arises, “Can Quincy afford to support another school?” We do not know, but “time will tell.” The fund has in- creased from $30,000 to $260,750, the present amount, and before the year 1894 some step must be taken for its use. —Leila H. Sprague, ’94.

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THE GOLDEN ROD. lots was one hundred eleven, all of which were cast for The Golden Rod.. We hope our friends will be as well pleased with the result of the last election as we are, and that they will agree with us in thinking that in this case, at least, a majority vote is certainly the more satisfactory. r. DIRECTORY OF ’91. Mary E. Butler—Bryant Strat- ton’s, Boston. Mary A. Cleverly—Bryant Strat- ton’s, Boston. Annie J. Eaton—At home. Carrie B. Gannett—Bridgewater Normal. Clara L. Graham—Thayer Acade- my. Edith P. Gray—Miss Fish, milli- ner, Quincy. Annie P. Hall—Kindergarten, Bos- ton. Edith W. Jennings—Girls’ High school, Boston Sadie M. Jones—At home. Sadie R. Melzard—Boston Art school. Margaret G. Mundy—Bryant Stratton’s, Boston. Inez L. Nutting—Quincy Training class. Alice M. M. Richards—Quincy Training class. Elizabeth J. Shepherd—Quincy Training class. Frances C.Sullivan—Quincy Train- ing class. Edith B. Waldron—Quincy Train- ing class. Jessie L. Webb—Beals’ College, Boston. Charles L. Hammond—Civil engi- neering, Boston. Walter H. Hersey—Bridgewater Normal. Walter P. Hill—Bookkeeping, Bos- ton. Arthur W. Priest—Boot and shoe store, Boston. Walter E. Simmons, jr.—Shuman’s clothing house, Boston. William L. Thomas—Saville Jones, Quincy. John W. Thompson.—At home. PERSONAL EDITED BY Jennie Griffin, Herbert Holmes. Bertha V. Jameson, ’94, is at Thayer. Nora Leary, ’94, is learning vest making in Atlantic. Abbie Feltis, once of ’93, is read- ing proof in the Patriot office, Quincy. May Merrill, ’93. is preparing for Smith College at Thayer Academy, Braintree. Sadie Badger, once of ’94, is at- tending a boarding school in New Hampshire. Christina Baker, ’94, is taking a course in the Burdett Business College, Boston. Mary Kendrick and Alice Crane, ’93, did not return in September, but are giving their attention to music. Our special teachers this term are: Singing, Mrs. Laura French Smith; Drawing, Miss Jessie N. Prince; Nature, Miss S. E. Bras- sill. Charles and Annie Bennett, ’94, have left us for a course of study at Thayer Academy. We trust these two, who have been our com- panions for over a year, will win as good a reputation in their present school as they have had here with us. As there is no printed list of the graduates ot this school, and as more than a quarter of a century has passed since the first gradua- ting class received their diplomas, we propose to publish month by month the names of the graduates, by classes, and their present resi- dence ; therefore this should be a column of great interest to the alumni. “When the queenly golden rod And purple asters wave and nod Along the woods and lane; When the cardinal blossoms gleam By some quiet, silver stream. September comes again.”

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THE GOLDEN ROD. OUR DEBT TO ELECTRICITY. O back a hundred years to a j street of Padua in Sunny Italy. “Why are you lingering here ?” we ask one of the bystand- ers. “Why, we are watching Prof. Galvani playing with a frog’s legs,” says he, and goes off laughing. This is but an illustration of the treatment which patient, studious men often received. While search- ing for some hidden truth they were subjected to the cruel treat- ment of those who, in their igno- rance, thought that the students were in league with the “king of darkness.” One day, while preparing the nether limbs of a frog for his class, Galvani left them suspended from an iron rod. A copper wire hung from the legs and swung against the rod. He found that every time the two metals met a sharp convul- sion was noticeable in the legs. For a long time he puzzled over this strange phenomenon, and at last gave to the world his explana- tion. Then the wise men of all Europe were aroused, and every laboratory was supplied with frogs’ legs. Many refused to accept Galvani’s reasoning, among them Prof. Vol- ta, who, in an experiment to prove his own theory, constructed a cell and produced what is known as voltaic electricity. He used his new invention to confirm his teach- ings, although the cell’s action was distinctly opposed to them. We owe the beginning of our know- ledge of electricity, then, to the contention of two men, neither of whom ever knew what he had ac- complished for mankind. Yet, strange to relate, both were wrong, for we now know that the effects they saw were due to chemical ac- tion. Since their time men have been advancing faster and faster as knowledge accumulates. Intimately connected with elec- tricity is the artificial magnet. Many think of it as a trivial play- thing, but they are greatly mista- ken. The most learned man in the country—aye, in the world—can- not tell positively why a piece of soft iron becomes a magnet while a current of electricity is passing through it, and ceases to be one when the current is checked. Yet on this fact depends the value of the telephone, the telegraph, the electric bell, the dynamo, and the majority of electrical machines. The practical value of these is so well known that we need not dwell upon them. Nothing has yet been found which can compare with electricity in rapidity of motion. A current once passed, in spite of resistance from wires and telegraph instru- ments, from Cambridge to San Francisco and back, in less than three-tenths of a second. Turn to the telephone. Would not our ancestors be greatly aston- ished to see us speak into a little box fastened to the wall in conver- sation with a friend seven hundred miles away ? More wonderful still, Edison now promises that in 1892 we shall see the person at the other end of the line. Let me name a few other practical appliances ; for example, the electric car. The current passing around the magnets under the car starts the motor, moves the wheels, and the car is off. The electric light, however, de- pends on an -entirely different characteristic of the electric fluid. It is a well-known fact that if electricity meets with too much re- sistance in passing through a con- ductor, the latter is heated, and sometimes even melted. On this depends both the arc and incan- descent lights. The current meet- ing considerable resistance while passing through the carbon warms it to a white heat, thus producing the well-known soft but powerful light. Magnetism, too, plays an important part in the arc light, for if the carbons were not fed togeth- er the light would gradually dim and finally disappear. The phonograph is comparative- ly new, and is not as yet very well understood, but even now it is used by authors and editors, and also in taking testimony. It is