Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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Che Golden-Rod. QUINCY, MASS., MAY, 1907. Ube Class of 1907. No class ever left the Quincy High school with more reluctance than the class of nineteen- seven. We consider ourselves extremely fortu- nate to have the opportunity of graduating from the new building, even if we were sorely handicapped at the beginning of the term. In attending afternoon sessions last fall with poor accommodations and short recitation hours, much work had to be done hastily and some even left undone. A great deal of pleasant school and class life was lost, because the pupils could not girls had no athletics whatever The failure to complete the new building is still respon- sible for the apparent lack of interest iu ath- letics this spring. However, we will forget all the difficulties the school has undergone, because the building is at last ample to accommodate the whole num- ber of pupils in one morning session and we hope that next year the graduating class and indeed the whole school will enjoy the benefits of the gymnasium and assembly hall aud the new building which it has taken Quincy so many years to provide. meet as a school and the classes could not hold meetings and class parties. It was simply a case of holding recitations and omitting every thing else. The lack of music has also been keenly felt this year. For the first time in several years, the successful annual school concert could not take place, the proceeds of which would have aided greatly in purchasing deco- rations for our new building. It is also to be regretted that athletics have suffered so much this year. Last fall the boys’ football games were few in number and the jt Jt We cannot say too much iu praise of our teachers, who. being put to such great incon- veniences this year, have increased their efforts and buoyed up the spirits of the pupils until shirking would have been unjust and unap- preciative. It was with great regret that we saw several of the old teachers leave after everything had been restored to order. Iu January, our German teacher. Miss Schroe- der. accepted another position in Lynn; Miss Sherman, the sophomore English and Latin teacher, left us in order to teach in Providence,

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STAM.KV F. DINCAN, '07, ROY ( . Cl YEN, '07. EDITORS: 1 OLIVE 1 . ALLEN. 07. CLARA M. DKCOSTE, '07. BUSINESS MANAGER : FRANCIS B. FLAHIVE, 07. COMMITTEE: CILBERT A. BOOTH. '07, HATTIKMAY MITCHELL, 07, LA VS RANCE B. FORD, 07, MABEL E. PRARIO, ’07, FRANCIS L. Md’HKRSON, '07. LILLIAN W. MORROW. 07, ELSIE WOLL, '07.

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THE GOLDEN -ROD while Mr. Thompson, our History teacher moved to New Jersey. Their places, however, have been filled by able instructors. Since we entered the new building, we have learned one thing that could not be fully de- veloped before, and that is punctuality. This is due to the new system by which the bells are rung by a program clock in the office. Be- fore, we were obliged to rely upon watches which oftentimes vary. Now the regulators keep correct time and we are willing to be on time. Perhaps we do not fully realize it, but punctuality during our school life will develop in us habits useful at all times when we have entered upon our future. Now that we are settled in our new build- ing and our senior year is fast drawing to a close, we can afford to pause a moment to con- sider the fii st term. When school opened in September our new building was far from com- pletion. The old building was not in condition to be used. These difficulties were happily solved by Woodward Institute kindly offering the use of its building for a session of three hours in the afternoon. By this arrangement both schools were put to much inconvenience, 'l'lie High school, however, was able to do much of- its work in spite of the serious handicap. Now that the building is ready, the pupils have an opportunity to make up some of the back work, and to graduate with the loss of only few of the many opportunities a High School ought to provide. It is much to be regretted that the as- sembly hall has not been made ready for use as it is there and there alone that enthusiasm can be roused when the time comes to pay ath- letic dues. A school as large as the Quincy High ought to support the different teams without outside contributions. If every pupil in the school were to pay the small sum of five cents a month for the ten months we are in session, there would be over three hundred and fifty dollars in the treasury and this sum would easily pay all athletic expenses for any year. The Class or 1907. “ Praise front a friend, or censure front a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.” —Pope. Oi.ive Pierson Allen. “My salad days When I was green in judgment.” —Shakespeu re. Clara May Arthur. “With even step, and musing gait.” —Milton. Alfred Paul Artis. “He was the mildest manner’d man That ever scuttled ship, or cut a throat. ” —Byron. Julia Arnold Barber. “Brave singer of the coming time, Sweet minstrel of the joyous present. ” —Holmes. Margaret Thayer Barnes. “She was ever precise in promise-keepi ng.” —Shakespeare. Harriet Agnes Barry. “For I am nothing, if not critical.” —Shakespeare. Ruth Winifred Bean. “I’d be a butterfly, born in a bower Where roses and lilies and violets meet.” —T. H. Bayly. Albion Paris Bonney. “To dumb forgetfulness a prey.” —Gray. Gilbert Alexander Booth. “And of his port as meke as is a mayde. —Chaucer. Chester Don Brown. “What a strange thing is man.” Annie Grace Buckley. “And what a stranger is woman ! ” —Byron. Teresa Buckley. “Time elaborately thrown away.” — Yonng. John William Burke, Jr. “Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancas- ter.” —Shakespeare.