Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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TIIE GOLDEN-ROD. series of well executed plays. Then the umpire gave the ball to their opponents on account of an attempt to pass the ball ahead. No such attempt was made, and this decision was undoubtedly a wrong one. Coming as it did, it robbed the High school team of a chance to secure a touchdown which they had every reason to expect, and prevented them from scoring at all. AN OLD IDEA EXPLODED. Some years ago occasionally pupils used to attend the Quincy High school a year or two, and then go to some other secondary school to com- plete their education, or to prepare for college. The last few years have brought about an entire change in this matter. The graduates of the High school go directly to Har- vard or any other classical college or to Scientific, Normal, or Art school. To judge by the results of the ex- aminations passed by High school pupils applying for admission to Harvard and lladcliffe, the prepara- tory work donfe at the High school compares very favorably with that done at the best secondary schools whether in Quincy or in other places. Pupils who wish to com- plete their education at a secondary school have ample opportunity to follow graduate courses at the High. More ambitious pupils will, of course, not be satisfied with second- ary instruction, and will go to the college, the Normal schools, or to the scientific or professional schools. The logical and natural place of High school graduates is found in schools empowered either to confer degrees or to furnish professional education, or to do both. That the citizens of Quincy understand and appreciate the new High School and its liberal system of courses is proved by the extraordinary growth of that institu- tion. It may not be generally known that the Quincy High school has in- creased in numbers 140 per cent, in four years. The same figures would in no sense express the increase in facilities and general efficiency. The unanswerable argument of permanent, abundant and well de- served prosperity, may well set at rest an idea no longer either wise or practicable. The following members of the class of ?9b have joined the Quincy Training class : Isabella Hay, Mary Capen Melzard, Sarah Gertrude Edwards, Annie Christina llealy, Helen Augusta Dunham, Beatrice Helen Rothwell, Rose Coyle, Jennie May Ramsey, Flora Louise Leake, Sarah Eleanor Lord, Margaret Louise Burns, Mary Costello, Lucy Frances Feeley, Mary Eva Thayer Pitts, Annie Louise Roche, Finette Maude Cummings. The enrollment at the High School this year is 380. Each year brings the number up considerably. The question now is, what shall we do, if the number keeps increasing? Head-Master and Mrs. F. A. Tupper recently received an invita- tion to the golden wedding of Sir Charles and Lady Tupper at Ottawa, Canada, Thursday, 8 October. French ’97 — Teacher — u What season do you prefer ? ” Pupil—uJe vousprefere, Madame.

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THE GOLDEN-ROD. Stfyletidg: Shortly after the beginning of the school year, Mr. Tupper called to- gether all the boys of the school, for the purpose of forming an Athletic Association. When this organiza- tion had been completed, the meet- ing proceeded to elect officers for the ensuing year. Mr. Tupper was unanimously elected president. A ballot was then taken for the choice of two vice- presidents. Wilkins ’97 and Morse ’99 were elected. Nichols ’97 was elected secretary and treasurer. It was deemed advisable to have an advisory committee consisting of graduates of the school, and Dr. J. M. Sheahan and Hon. Charles H. Porter were chosen to serve upon this board. An executive committee was chosen consisting of the president, vice-presidents, secretary and treas- urer, ex-officiis, besides the follow- ing undergraduates : Litchfield ’98, Hall 1900, and Ripley 1900. The meeting was adjourned, after the election of Mr. Porter as manager of the foot-ball team. FOOT BALL. The candidates for the foot-ball teams were called out at the middle of September, and about thirty men appeared. After a few days this number was reduced to twenty. From these twenty men the team will be made up. Practice began on Sept. 18th and has been continued steadily for the last three weeks. After the team had been on the field a few days, Saunders ’97, a member of last year’s Adams-High team, was appointed temporary captain. He was elected permanent captain on Thursday, October 8. Under him the team will doubtless progress rapidly, and there is every reason for believing that our promising material may soon be turned into an excellent and creditable team. GAMES. The team played its first matched game on Saturday, October 3rd, against the East Milton A. A. This team was much too heavy for the High school boys, and won from them handily by the score of 12 to 4. The only score made by the Quincy team was a touchdown by Ripley after a long run of 50 yards. This was by far the best play of the game. Saunders made many ex- cellent tackles, and did much to keep our opponents from making a larger score. On Wednesday, Oct. 7th, we played Adams Academy. This game was a great surprise and disappoint- ment to us, as we were beaten 12-0. The playing of the Adams team was excellent in every particular, and the game was won on its merits. Their dash and energy were most commendable, and won them the game in the first half. At the end of this half the score was : Adams, 12; High, 0. In the second half the High school team played a much better game. They not only prevented their opponents from scoring, but came ex- ceedingly near making a touchdown. They carried the ball slowly but surely, from their own 25-yard line to the Adams 15-yard line, by a

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TIIE GOLDEN-ROD. S xdlikqgeg. Edited by Alice M. Briggs, ’07. Delia E. Burke, ’07. Herbert Wilkins, 07. Alice E. Williams, ’98. “Our Animal Friends” is an in- structive as well as humane paper. A good class motto is found in the “ Alpha” namely “ Row, not Drift.” There is an interesting continued story in the Lynn High Gazette for May. There is some fairly good manu- factured wit in the English High School Recorder of Lynn. Some of the school papers do not make much of their exchange column. Success to the Collegium, P. E. Island, and success to the young men of that beautiful little island. It does one good to read words of such true patriotism. We are pleased to acknowledge the following exchanges: The Bud- get, The Chronicle, The School Record, The Holy Cross Purple, The Breeze, Mount St. Joseph Collegian. In one of the exchanges are noticed the following words which seem applicable to all: “ Learn to discriminate between things that are important and things that are unimportant.” “Only a flower of no renown Growing alone on my native down, To bless and cheer in my lowly way The hearts of men whom you would slay.” —Carrier on. The Lynn Recorder is good out- side, and shows great ambition with- in the cover. Very interesting is the High School Times, Dayton, printed on excellent paper with good clear type. “ Scientific Notes” in the C. M. F. S. Register is found to be an interesting column. The Newton High School Review commencement number• is doubly bright, not to mention the bright faces. There is an article in the High School Recorder entitled “ Speaking Distinctly,” which the class in History ’98 would do well to read. Our Dumb Animals Avith its admirable reading matter and its beautiful illustrations is always welcome. Geology ’97 Teacher—“ What is the name of the mineral you have been working on.” Pupil—“ It ?s (a) conundrum. “Spake full well in language quaint and olden, One who dwelt beside the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers so blue and golden, Stars, that in Earth’s firmament do shine.” —Longfellow, Invitations have been received to the wedding of Miss Gwynn, a former teacher of the Quincy High school. “Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers, Sits by the raked up ashes of the past; Spreads its thin hands above the whitening embers, That warms its creeping life blood to the last.” —Holmes.