Fitchburg High School - Boulder Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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MAY. JUNE. 12. Rogers receives his ])hotographs from Worcester, and thinks them the Ijcst he has seen. 29. Hayes (’97) rides tandem with our librarian. 80. The High School decorates the monu- ment. Three of the committee sleep over, in spite of the ingenious alarm-clock devised by Parks (’98.) EDITORIAL. The Class-Book Committee grate- fully acknowledges the assistance so willingly given by members of the School. Messrs. Cushing and Hardy, of the Senior Class, have kindly assisted by making draw- ings. Owing to an agreement made by some of the merchants, advertise- ments were not at first secured easilj and the success of this book looked doubtful. To those who, by advertisements, subscriptions, or suggestions, or in any other way contributed to its success, we desire to extend our hearty thanks. George S. Rice. F ' rederick C. Cross. Maurice W. Parker. A modern rebellion : The first Junior Class meeting. Who eats four courses and then calls for short-cake? Lovell, (’98). 7. Hedeugren (’99) points to a brick of ice cream and asks, “ Mr. Smith, what are you going to do with that soap ?” 15. Rogers and Miss Goodrich endeavor to run the astronomy class, but are brought to time by a speedy cru])- tion. Shakespeare ' s Dramas. Freshman Year — A Comedy of Errors. Sophomore Year — Much Ado About Nothing. Junior Year — As You Like It. Senior Year — All’s Well that Ends Well. WANTS. Wanted — Just a few new hymns for use in morning opening exer- cises. Wanted — A fine young man to take care of a Webb. Wanted — Bill Ballantine to go home evenings, “the straight and narrow way,” via Pleasant and Davis streets, and not try to cover his trail by taking the rye field route. “What! He only a Freshman? One would think he were a peda- gogue ! ” Fosdick.

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ATHLETICS. During the past three or four years the interest taken in athleties at the F. H. S. has been eon- stantlyon the increase, especially in football and baseball. When our illustrious (?) predeces- sors, the class of ’96, left school last year, it was commonly re- marked that the places their ath- letes held on the eleven and base- ball nine could never be filled ; but time told, and b developing new material from the classes of ’97 and ’98, the best football eleven that has ever represented the school was organized. Out of eleven games played, eight were won, one tied and only two lost — an excellent showing. We may state here, with no lit- tle pride, that in many cases the brightest stars of the eleven or nine belonged to the class of ’97. In this year’s football team, the playing of Fahey (’97) was more conspicuous than that of almost any other man, while Ballantine, Powers, Johnson and Ray all did splendid work, and nearly all of these players were members of the ’94 and ’95 teams. Ballantine (’97) was elected cap- tain of the ’96 ’varsity eleven, but for various reasons was obliged to resign, and Claude Kendall (’98) was appointed to the position, which he filled admirably. He was very popular with the men and got much work out of the team, besides playing an excellent game himself, as did many of the other ’98 and ’99 men. In baseball, however, the team which represented our school has played a number of close games the past spring, but unfortunately we have generally met with defeat. There seems to have been a streak of hard luck in nearly all the de- feats, or a case of poor playing during some one inning which lost the game. As in the football eleven, a num- ber of fast players of the nine are from the class of ’97. George H. Sprague, Jr. (’97), the star t wirier of the school, was elected captain, and it was scarcely through any fault of his that the team has gained so few victories, as his pitching in nearly every game has