Fitchburg High School - Boulder Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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Auspicious omens — Demerits. Everybody ' s Favorite . ' VISIT LITCHFIELD STEBBIHS f Your neighbors all have it. The dressmaker, tailor, shoemaker and manufact- urer in every kind of stitch- ing. WlIAT? The Singer Sewing Machine ONE F RIOE CLOTHIERS, HATTERS AND GENTS ' FURNISHERS, 120 Main Street, .. Fitchburg, Mass. Under American House. IboUanb Cailor 162 flDam St., jfUcbburQ - For delivering Notes, Parcels, or anything a boy can conveniently carry, from 7.30 A. M. to 9.00 p. M. PROMPT AND CAREFUL SERVICE. J. C. CARMODY, .. Manager, Main Office, 128 Main St. Branch, 373 Main St. Cbat’s HU For the benefit of those who believe F. H. S. stands for Fitchburg High School, we state that they are wrong; it means “Fidgety Harriet Stimson.”

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For two more yeans we lingered along between life and death, “the unobserved of all observers,’’ and monarehs of the third floor. We had the usual eleetion fight in the beginning of our Junior year. After the elass and Mr. Bingham had tried in vain to settle it, “the Supreme Court of Appeals” handed down a deeision. Then, as the muse of room 26 has graphieally put it into verse : “ Bun, Bun, the coniinissioner’s son, Took the eh air and away he run.” j. W. F., Poet. During the first of that year, various committees chose the class flower, pin, ring, colors and motto. Though all of these are appropriate and show the good judgment of the committee, none deserve special men- tion except the class pin, which is the daintiest pin that ever ornamented a pupil of the Fitchburg high school. During the Junior year various par- ties were held by the class, which netted a small financial return for a great deal of work. As this was and is a wide-awake and self-assert- ive class, we kept the class of ’99 continually on the qui vive. As they did not follow Napoleon’s maxim of always knowing what the enemy is going to do next, H. H. W oodward found an opportunity to capture the senior elass flag which was secreted in Fosdiek’s house. Then the Sen- iors rose in their wrath and moved against “Castle FovSdick.” Thev might have made better use of their time 1)3 ' stud dng their English les- sons, for the} ' would have been marching 3 and still be no nearer their flag, but the} went cr3 ' ing to Mr. Hitchcock, and armed with his august commands the} ' recovered the bone of contention. When the class of ’99 graduated we again showed our enterprising spirits. Af- ter school, a small crowd of Junior bo3 ' s bought a can of paint and proceeded to decorate the sidewalks, posts, etc., in the vicinit} ' of the school. The Seniors became possessed of another and put some “cuss words” after our chef d ' oeuvre. This gave the teachers an opportunit} ' to show the usefulness of a college chemistiw course applied to the ordinary (side) walks of life. That evening St-r-r and K-3 ' -s hoisted the 1900 flag to the flagpole, where it remained dur- ing the exercises to the anger of Messrs. Hartwell and Smith and the everlasting disgrace of the class of ’99. In our Senior 3 ' ear we were the acknowledged autocrats of the .school. We were given a reception by the teachers in November, held various class parties, received more D’s than any previous class, elected a red-headed president, had our pic- tures taken, and part of us grad- uated and part of us did not.

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Foot Ball. HE opening of the season of 1899 found in the school a dearth of experienced football pla3 ers. The footl)all team of the previous year had not amounted to much, which was partl3 responsible for the lack of experience. Besides, the members of the school, especial the class of 1900 , were a great deal 3 ounger and smaller than in an3 previous 3 ear. What few big men there were in the school knew nothing about football. Not to be discouraged the Ath- letic Association voted to put a team in the field and elected L. C. Shed don manager and W. H. Rourke captain. Training was immediate commenced, though without a reg- ular trainer. After the first game Capt. Rourke resigned, and Frederick Storer was elected to fill the vaeane3 James Hogan then began to coach the team and under training the eleven began to show great improvement. In the Murdock game and subse- (pient practice four or five pla3 ers managed to get injured, l)ut rather tlian cancel the Gardner game the team went up with substitutes in more than half of the positions. Arrived there, we found a team op- ]Dosing us that from the size of the members woul d liave been supposed to have graduated from high school three 3 ears ago. Though the team did not win ever3 game it pla3 ed, in no game did it show a lack of science or knowledge of the game, and it never failed to pla3 ' against a team heavier than itself. The skilful and daring playing of H. Whitcomb was a feature of ever3 game. Among those who deserve special mention are A. Irish and C. Kendall. Following is a list of the team and schedule of games: F. E. Storer, captain ; L. C. Sheddoii, manager; Archie Irish, Henr 3 ' Whitcomb, William Fisher, James R ' an, John Moran, Bernard Care ' , Harold Knight, Harwood Ke 3 ' es, Alvin Downie, Herbert Dillon, “Chick” Kendall, Lewis Philbrook, Robert Walsh, Robert Grubb, Walter Storer, Richard Miller. F. H. S. 10, L. H. S. 0, Nov. 2. F. H. S. 6, Ma 3 mard 0, Nov. 25. F. H. S. 0, Gardner 36, Oct. 25. F. H, S. 5, Gardner 6, Nov. 20. F. H. S. 0, Ma 3 mard 5, Nov. 4. F. H. S. 0, Murdock 5, Oct. 21. F. H. S. 0, L. H. S. 0, Nov. 30. F. H. S. 0, C. A. 0, Oct. 4.