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TheGoi Vol. I. QUINCY, MASS., THE GOLDEN ROD Will be Published Monthly During the School Year in the interests of the QUINCY HIGH SCHOOL. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. For the Year. . 60cents | Single Copies, . 6 cents Koi sal e at E B. Souther’s. Address all communications to A KTHU R V. CI' RTIS or S A It A H C. M cGO V KKN. BUSINK8S MANAGERS. Entered at the Quincy (Mass..) Post-Oftice as Second Class Matter. EDITORIAL. GENERAL EDITORS. Eva G. Reed, Leila H. Sprague. CA O back three thousand years, j and find the Jews from the north, south, east, and west gath- ered at Jerusalem, where they spent a week in mirth, feasting, praying, and in praising God for the harvests He had sent them. Go up among the ancient Greeks during their nine festal days, and see them standing about the altars, dressed in gay attire, praising and worshiping their Demeter, to whom they all vowed the best of their harvests. Step over into Rome during its festal day in the early autumn, and there you will find the rich and the poor together, wreathed with corn and flowers, forming processions in the fields, dancing and singing, all in honor of generous Ceres, the goddess of fruits and grains. Again, had you lived in England in the year 827 when Egbert, the first king, reigned, a very pleasant sight to gaze upon on some autumn day would have been the gay lads and lassies with their quaint garments, their crowns of fruits and grains, singing and dancing on the green about a great bonfire; and as night closed over them, retiring to their humble cots, and closing the day with feasting and prayer. All these ancient peoples then, had their feast or festal days which den Rod. NOVEMBER, 1891. No. 3. corresponded to our Thanksgiving, long before our country was heard of. Nevertheless we claim that the custom of an American Thanksgiving originated in our own state of Massachusetts, and well may we he proud of its origin and results. s. Thanksgiving Day again is here to witness the pictures of pleasant family reunions, heavily laden tables, and gathered harvests, to bring before us the vision of that one little “solitary vessel, the May- flower of a forlorn hope, freighted with the prospects of a future state, and bound across the un- known sea.” I wonder how many of us, when seated by the fireside enjoying the company of dear friends and relatives on our Thanksgiving Day, give one thought to its origin and founders, to that band of noble pilgrims land- ing upon the ice-clad rocks of Ply- mouth, tired, weak, and forlorn, without money, shelter, or provi- sions. Whence came they? Let the poet tell:— “From Leyden and landed once more, One day in December, on Plymouth’s bleak shore: Then they waged a fierce fight till the winter was past With Famine and Death, but they con- quered at last: Ana though half their number were laid ’neath the sod, Yet the rest never faltered, but trusted in God. And then, as the year went rolling around. They garnered the harvest He sent, from the ground.- Of acres of corn they had just a score, And of barley and peas, six of each, and no more: But their pumpkins were golden, their wild grapes were sweet. And wild deer and water fowl furnished them meat. They thanked God and took courage. for that was their way, And the Governor appointed a Thanks- giving Day.” s.
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