Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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THE GOLDEN-ROD School Notes $ Wanted : A waiting room at the corner of Hancock street and Butler road for youthful swains who wait for their lady friends. Wanted : Expert conversationalists for the dentist’s son at recess and other times. Wanted: Information as to a certain lunch sold at the Soph’s candy sale. Who took Miss K--------’s happy family from Room 7 ? Ask Miss I)----- who is the poorest speller in stenography. Somebody asked II------II----- if he had come back for a post-graduate course. The nerve of some people! History IV and English IV are two of the most popular courses in the school. What young man and lady ought to be spanked and put to bed ? It has been suggested that Miss K------ collect her specimens for biology from the drinking cups, as there is no record of there being otherwise removed. The school is fortunate in possessing so many pupils of musical tastes. Prominent among them is W-----’05. Bill can everlastingly tickle the ivories. H-----, ’06 has a most engaging smile which has great attractions for the fair sex. What an awful appetite one of the teachers develops just about mealtimes! Anything from fig-bars to lemon pies. Miss M----- in a recent dispatch from Maine said that she was seriously contemplating setting up a jewelery store, using as her stock in trade the various articles presented by her former pupils,— pins, brooches, rings, thimbles, etc. History IV is developing a fine set of debaters. E-----’05 leads them all. It is whispered about in the select circles of the school that Miss E---R-------, ’05 is attempting to make a record for tardiness that can not be equalled by any of her class-mates. We see you in the office quite often E---. The report comes from reliable authority that B----and V------arc to accept an engagement of two weeks at Austin Stone’s, posing under the respective titles of “ The Giant and the Midget of 1905.” Ask H------to write you a business letter. That is his long suit. Mr. E------and M iss G-----left school about the same time. A base scandal to the effect that they had eloped was in circulation at one time. Mr. T------ is fast becoming a young Sherlock Holmes in the detection of crime. R----------was detected in the act of throwing snow-balls by no less evidence than the size of his foot-prints in the the snow. Honorable mention and a medal should be awarded. Has any member of the cooking class escaped indigestion ? Can it be that our base ball captain is selecting a queen ? Alas! he is attentive to a King. Miss J-----'05 seems to take great pleasure in feeding her troop of trained mice. You gentlemen in English IV C should first get the right subject and then go to L-------- for in- formation. Who said this: “Mr.----, you better come down and try that over again ? ” Sounds kind of familiar doesn’t it ? A subscription paper should be circulated for the purpose of raising funds for the purchase of a bottle of hair tonic. Can anyone guess who needs it? One of the Senior girls was surprised to find out that Mr. T------ was married. She thought he would have more sense.

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TilE GOLDEN - ROD twelve, the band begins to play and after a few moments in military drill the boys march into the students’ dining room where grace is sung by all the students before sitting down to their dinner. The drill is very helpful for there is a marked difference in the walk and carriage of the boys after a few months of this discipline. At night, directly after supper, prayers are held in the chapel to which all the students are ex- pected to go. On Sunday the Episcopal and Cath- olic students attend church in Hampton and Old Point, while the others have Sunday School from ten to eleven. The battalion forms for inspection at ten minutes after eleven and at half after that hour marches into church where services are held for all. Dinner is at one o’clock, after which the Indian students have their Christian Endeavor meeting and some of the senior and postgraduate boys and girls go “ missionarying” with a few teachers to some of the cabins in the vicinity, to the poorhouse, and to two small chapels where Sunday School services are held. At home in the girls’dormitories “ quiet hour” is observed from 2.30 to 4 o’clock and the girls are obliged to remain in their rooms without so much as whispering. The teachers generally take advantage of this quiet time also. One of them remarked to me not long ago : “ I really don't know what I should do if it were not for the quiet Sunday afternoons. They just keep me up all the week.” Perhaps the most delightful to me is the service held Sunday evenings at half after seven. For the first half hour the students, led by the Command- ant, Major Robert R. Moton, sing their old planta- tion melodies. Imagine, if you can, eight hundred students singing with all their hearts the songs which have been handed down as sacred by their fathers, their voices rising or failing in perfect accord with the slightest movement of the hand of their leader, —and even then you cannot obtain the faintest conception of the magnetism of that song service. The visitors’ portion of the hall is always crowded with those who perhaps are staying at some of the hotels or live in the vicinity. There is so much to say about the work of Hampton that I shall not even attempt to outline it. Suffice to say that the boys and girls arc trained in practical work in order that they may go out into the communities from which they came to us or into other portions of the country where they can do efficient work for their own people. Many of them establish small schools of their own which sometimes grow as the years go by and become powerful factors in their slate and country. Some of my readers will remember the talk that Dr. Booker T. Washington gave in High School hall a few years ago. Dr. Washington is a gradu- ate of Hampton and from the inspiration which he received here conceived the idea of establishing a similar school for his people in Alabama when he was recommended by General Armstrong to take charge of a school which a citizen of that state wished to have started there. That school, founded with the idea of doing some little good fortheracein the Black Belt of the South, has grown until instead of recognizing it as the child of Hampton one would take it for a sister institu- tion. This is only one of many cases. Hampton graduates, ever since the fir t of them left the small school started just after the war by General Samuel Chapman Armstrong in an old army barracks, have been steadily increasing the number of intelligent, citizens and educators. Some of them have attended the higher institutions of learning open to them and now teach in Tuskegee or similar schools, or are in the various professions. One, who is doing good work for his people throughout the South, and for Hampton in par- ticular, is Mr. W. T. B. Williams, Harvard, ’97. In closing let me extend to you a most cordial invitation to come and see for yourselves what is being done for your brothers and sisters here in the Southland. Tlieie are always guides to show visitors about the grounds and through the in- dustrial departments of the school and you will be repaid by seeing one of the most wonderful in- stitutions in the world. Corinne Louise Hayward. IRcunion The classes of ’00, ’01, ’02, ’03, and ’04 held a most enjoyable reunion on Saturday evening April 15th, in High School Hall. Socially, the affair was one of the most successful ever held. Financially, there was a slight deficit, which, how- ever, was made up without serious difficulty from the class treasuries. During the first part of the evening music and entertainment were furnished by mandolin and glee clubs from the Institute of Technology. Later dancing was in order and continued until eleven- thirty. Thanks are due to the committee and to Mr. J. Brooks Keyes for the successful manage- ment of the affair.

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THE GOLDEN - ROD Athletics Our jfootball Season of 1904 As we look back upon our season of 1904 from the point of view of what con- re? ) stitutes a successful season, we are compelled to ac- W knowledge that it was not what we would make it if it could be played over again. Reasons for this are not hard to find. Certainly lack of success can not be laid to the schedule as the teams we met were none of them out of our class. As to the coaching it would be at least indelicate for one who had a share in it to criticise. The material at hand at the beginning of the season was up to the average in physical strength but far below in foot ball experience. To develop a championship team two things are absolutely necessary, the enthusiastic support of the student body and a few experienced members of a previous team, for foot ball is not a subject which can be learned in one season. As we had neither of the above essentials it is not surprising that our season was at the most mediocre. However, from a glance at the schedule of the games played we can learn something to interest and encourage us. It is a credit to our team that it showed constant development toward the end of the season, and at times, notably in the second game with Roxbury and that with Watertown, gave evidence of that foot ball spirit which characterizes every winning team. As we look back upon those games and see them in their true perspective the thought ought to come to us that if we expect to make a success of our athletics it can only be done as in other lines of action by plenty of hard work and the resolve never to be contented with defeat. Percy Fowler Parsons. Zbc ®ase 36all ©utloofe As in foot ball we are handicapped at the start by lack of seasoned material but fortunate in hav- ing for our pitcher and captain a fellow student who deserves our confidence. It is early in the season to speak in any degree of confidence about the team and its future. Among those trying for places are the following: Catchers,—Burke and Nichols. Pitchers,—Capt. Gram and C. Campbell. 1st basemen,—Doyle and Duncan. 2d basemen,—Reilly and C. Campbell. Short stop, — J. Elcock and S. Williams. 3d basemen,—Fallon and Jordan. Fielders, — Bass, F. Williams, Dunn, McClure, Loud and Connors. The schedule follows : April 19,—Alumni at Quincy. April 21,— Ilingham at Hingham. April 25,—Milton at Milton. April 28,—Weymouth at Weymouth. May 2,—Milton at Quincy. May 5,—Adams at Quincy. May 9,—Somerville at Somerville. May 12, — 11i ngham at Quincy. May 16,—Weymouth at Quincy. May 19, —Open date. May 23, —Adams at Quincy. May 26, —Revere at Quincy. June 2,—Thayer at Quincy. June 6,—Waltham at Waltham. June 9,—Roxbury at Quincy. June 13,—Open date. Q. H. S.f ; Q. H. S. Alumni, 9 Quincy High school opened the base ball season at Merrymount Park on Patriots’Day and defeated a team made up of recent alumni of the school by a score of eleven to nine. It was more or less of a practice game and for the most part, the playing was devoid of interest to the spectators. The interest centered in the new players, Capt. Gram being the only member of last year’s team to play this year. On the whole the new players showed up very well. The infield will undoubtedly be as strong as last year, but as yet the outfield is somewhat of a problem. In this game McClure, Williams, Loud, Dunn and Bass were tried in the outfield; Doyle and Duncan at first; Campbell at second : Elcock; shortstop; Reilly, third base; Gram, pitcher; and Nichols, catcher. The alumni played as follows : Fenno, catcher, Davenport, pitcher and center field ; Ewen, pitcher and first base ; Sanders, second base ; McLaughlin, short stop ; Patch, third base ; O’Brien, right field ; Bennett, centre field and first base ; Shortle, left field. Q. H. S., 5; H. H. S., 6 The first regular game of the season was played with Hingham High school at Hingham Friday afternoon, April 21, the visiting team being the losers by the close score of six to five. Consider- ing the fact that the Hingham team was nearly of the same make up as the one defeated last year by Quincy in a ten inning contest and that the Quincy team was made up of new players, the game was most creditable from a Quincy point of view. Quincy High proved weak at the bat, the members of the team getting only four safe hits off Studley’s delivery. Hingham got eight hits,