Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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THE GOLDEN ROD. EXCHANGE. EDITED BY Cassie Thayer, John Estabrooks. The Beacon, Vol. I. No. i, is very interesting. The column headed Our Book Table is a good feature of the paper. . One can gain much information concerning the Japanese bv read- ing the “Lecture by Rev. E. G. Porter,” in The Stranger. The Cadet speaks of growth in the Maine State College and of a year of good work. This paper and the Oak, Lily and Ivy are obliged to write In Memoriam. We trust that we shall be spared this painful task. After we have turned the cover upside down several times to see what makes us dizzy when looking at it, we open The Record of the English high school, Boston, and read of military matters. As we believe that all high schools should have a military drill, we congratu- late the said school and commiser- ate ourselves. The Oak, Lily and Ivy is a very pleasing paper. The composition entitled ‘T'ashionable Follies” is especially entertaining and con- tains much common sense. We cannot help wondering what the good democrats of the town will say to the advertisement (?) on the inside of the cover. Ought a school paper to be used for politi- cal purposes ? As the September and October numbers of The Golden Rod are separated from each other by only one week, we have not had time to send our paper and receive ex- changes. However, four papers have been placed in our hands by friends, and we have examined them with pleasure. Our ex- changes wifi see that our experi- ence is very limited, for this is on- ly Vol. I. No. 2, and therefore we read for entertainment and in- struction. We hope to correct our own faults by our private criti- cisms of our exchanges. Publicly, however, we shall try to sympa- thize with the good intentions of those who have voluntarily under- taken so much hard work, and speak of what is best. SCISSORS. How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. Nothing sinks so gently and so deeply into men’s minds as exam- ples. Reputation is what men and wo- men think of us; character is what God and the angels know of us. Do not ask if a man has been through the high school. Ask if the high school has been through him. Every person has two.educa- tions ;—one which he receives from others, and one more important which he gives himself. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep ; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Railway statistics show that the American takes 27 railway trips a year, the Englishman 19, the Bel- gian ii. the Frenchman, the Ger- man, Swede, Norwegian, and the Spaniard five each, while the Turk, the Swiss and Italian take but one each. The Egyptian pyramids, mauso- leum of Artemisia, Temple of Di- ana at Ephesus, walls and hanging gardens of Babylon, Colossus at Rhodes, the statue of Jupiter Olympus, the Pharos, or watch tower of Alexandria, are the seven wonders of the ancient world. An Italian immigrant carried a stiletto; a German immigrant car- ried a bundle; a Portuguese immi- grant carried a banjo; an Irish im- migrant carried a baby; a Syrian immigrant carried a pouchful of trinkets; a Scotch immigrant car- ried a plaid and a bunch of heath- er ; a Russian Hebrew immigrant carried a purse containing a few foreign coins, and a Scandinavian immigrant carried himself as straight as an arrow.

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