Fitchburg State University - Saxifrage Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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The Normal School itself was first organized in the old high school building belonging to the city of Fitchburg, in 1895. The following year the school moved into its new building, and took charge of the schools in the Day Street and the Highland Avenue buildings, turned over according to contract, by the city to the State for use as schools of observation and practice. Somewhat later several model schools, or schools of observation were opened in the normal school building. The general aim was then, and has been through all the following years, to teach the history and theory of education together with child study and psychology and a more or less hasty re- view of subjects to be taught in the grades below the high school. In the year 1909 the Practical Arts Department was established at Normal and since then has proved itself to be a valuable course, its graduates teaching in practically every state in the East. f

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Commencement draws near. Our pleasant walks around these stately halls, and good times that we have had both in and out of doors while here at Normal will soon be just a memory. Pleasant memories are priceless, and to make them more vivid, the familiar haunts of our school days are portrayed on the pages following. ( OWDiM