Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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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.

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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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