Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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TIIE GOLDEN-ROD. THE PRIZE CONTESTS. Dr. Joseph M. Sheahan again offers generous prizes for excellence in English composition and trans- lations from Greek, Latin and French. Prizes are also offered for excellence in declamation. Dr. Sheahan’s prizes are as fol- lows: 1. —Essays, Class of 1897, $3. 2. —Essays, Class of 1898, $3. 3. —Essays, Class of 1899, $3. 4. —Essays, Class of 1900, $3. 5. —Translation from Xenophon, «3. 6. —Translation from Cicero, $3. 7. —Translation frem Virgil, $3. 8. —Translation from Caesar, $3. 9. —Translation from French, ’971 «3. 10. —Translation from French, ,972 $3. 11. —Translation from French, ’98, $3. The prizes for declamation will be five in number as follows: 1. —First prize, $15. 2. —Second prize, $12. 3. —Third prize, $10. 4. —Fourth prize, $8. 5. —Fifth prize, $5. These prizes are to be given in books. Pupils winning prizes may select any books that meet with the approval of Head-Master, Mr. F. A. Tupper. The subjects for essays and translations are as follows: SUBJECTS FOR PRIZE ESSAYS. Class of 1897. 1.—What Elements Tend to make a City Beautiful? Which of these Elements does Quincy Possess, and which does She Lack ? 2. —Some Reasons for Maintaining Free High Schools. 3. —What My Favorite Study Has Done for Me. 4. —The Wonders of Modern Science. 5. —What is True Success ? 6. —An Original Story or Poem. Class of 1898. 1. —Name and Discuss Some of the most Beautiful and Some of the Ugliest Objects in Quincy. 2. —Reveries of a Junior. 3. —The Debit and Credit of my High School Account. 4. —Compare the Life of School and the School of Life. 5. —Our Duty to the Lower Animals. 6. —An Original Story or Poem. Class of 1899. 1. —What Objections are there to the Usual Methods of placing Signs and Posters on our Streets ? What Improve- ments can you suggest in such methods of Advertising? 2. —A Sophomore’s Ambition. 3. —What Can the United States Learn from Europe ? 4. —The Essentials of a Good Education. 5. —The Practical Value of Mathe- matics. 6. —An Original Story or Poem. 7. —All the World a-Wheel. (Pleasures and Pains of Bicycling.) Class of 1900. 1.—Which are the Chief Historic Landmarks of Quincy? Of What Value are They? Should they be Preserved,

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Voti. VI No. 1. QUINCY, MASS., OCTOBER, 1896. $lte WILL HE PUBLISHED MONTHLY DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR IN THE INTEREST OF THE QUINGY HIQH SCHOOL. Subscription Rates. For the year, 50 cents | Single Copies 5 cents For sale at E. B. Souther’s, Quincy, and W. D. Ross’s, Wollaston. Address all communications to Katherine P. Shuman, ’97. William C. Wales, ’98. Jose i ii C. Morse, ’99. BUSINESS EDITORS. Entered at the Quincy (Mass.) Post-Oflice as Second-Class Matter. Editorial. General { Mary m- Joss- W. Editors IlEr'EN E- Bratra, ’97. wiicois. Donai d jjcKen .ie, ’97. By the death of William Morris, a notable figure has passed away. Seldom do we hear of a mind so versatile. He was a poet and an artist who not only expressed him- self in word-poems and pictures but who brought his poetic instinct and artistic sense, combined with Eng- lish pvacticableness into the common every day life of our homes. Many held that his socialistic tendencies were too radical, but his was the better socialism, “not a leveling down but a leveling up.” He earnestly longed and labored to make life less hard and stringent for all men. Among his earlier writings. “Summer Dawn,” is perhaps the best, later “Poems by the Way,” “The Life and Death of Jason,” “ Odyssey of Ilomer” and other works were published, but he is best known by the poem, “ An Earthly Paradise.” “When aweary of your mirth, From full hearts still unsatisfied ye sigh, And, feeling kindly unto all the earth, Grudge every nfinute as it passes by, Made the more mindful that the sweet days die, Remember me a little then I pray, The idle singer of an empty day.” j. “The time of snow! ” we said, not yet, Flushed with suffusions of regret, Out of the south October came, Setting the forest’s heart aflame.” The general editors, knowing so well the earnest efforts put forth by the former editors of the Golden Rod, feel justified in asking our readers to exercise patience until we have had an opportunity, to prove our ability in the editorial depart- ment. The work of the fall term has begun in earnest. The long summer vacation has given pupils and teachers a force and vigor which all heartily enjoy. Now is the time to take advantage of these oppor- tunities which are so lavishly granted us. As we notice the anxiety our teachers feel that we may grasp and hold what they so freely offer, may we gratefully rouse all our energies, and do credit to the efforts which are made in our behalf. b.

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THE GOLDEN-ROD. if they Stand in the way of Business Enterprises? Why? 2. —What can Young People who have no Money to Spend, do to make Quincy more At- tractive, and to prevent Dis- figurements? 3. —Why I came to the High School, and what 1 hope to get here. 4. —What the Grammar School did for me. 5. —The Model Teacher and the Model Pupil. 6. —An Original Story or Poem. 7. —“ Fads” Wise and Foolish. 8. —The Abigail Adams Cairn. PRIZE TRANSLATIONS. Virgil,—uEneid, Book VI, 485-540. Cicero,—Oration for Marcellus, Chapters III and IV. Caesar—Commentaries, Book VII, Chapters XII and XIII. Xenophon,—Anabasis, Book IV, Chapter 8, §22-§28 (inclusive.) French,—Class of 1897. 18971 “ Le Clos-Pommier” Chapter VII, page 74, as far as “Pacome fit si hienfi page 79. French,—Class of 18972. “ La Petite Fadette,” Chapter X, page 56 as far as Chapter XI, page 63. French,—Class of 1898. “ Le Roi Des Montaynesfi Chapter V. “ Les Gendarmes,” page 147 as far as “ Xa dessusfi page 152. GENERAL STATEMENT. 1. —The date of the Prize Speak- ing and announcement of essay and translation prizes will be Friday, 30 April, 1897. 2. —Essays and translations must be signed with an assumed name. 3. —Together with each transla- tion and essay there must be handed in a sealed envelope containing: (a) Both the assumed name and the real name of the pupil. (b) A statement to this effect: The essay or translation offered by------------ (pupil’s name) is my own unaided work. 4. —On the envelope write the assumed name of the pupil, and the year of the class. 5. —Use examination paper. Write on only one side of the paper. Neatness, spelling and penmanship, should be kept constantly in mind. Clear, vigorous and idiomatic Eng- lish is always acceptable to the judges. 6. —All essays and all translations must be handed to the Head Master, Mr. F. A. Tupper, on or before the first Monday of the Spring term. Let every one interested in the High School subscribe, for the Golden-Rod. Remember every sub- scription adds one to the list. The Golden-Rod is deserving of your heartiest support. Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind’s delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. —Johnson. flow do you know that Hamlet had a bicycle? Because lie said, “Watch over my safety, while I sleep.”—Exchange. “What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticised for us.’’ —Lowell.