Fitchburg High School - Boulder Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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REFLECTIONS in the high school, of the fun, demerits and lessons, and finally of the power which you hold as a senior, and realizing that soon you are to leave, soon teach- ers and pupils alike will be mourning over your departure, you will be overcome with grief and sink into an abyss of despondency. Well, after this picture of gloom, which some- times penetrates into senior life, came a picture never to be forgotten. My classmates, girls in white and boys in black, were softl3 singing together for the last time their class song. Was this sad scene to be the last ? I thought so, for when it disappeared no other came. But suddenly there was a flash of light and I saw my classmates slowly moving in a grand march. The sadness had disappeared. Triumphant, my class was ending its successful career in a grand processional ; the end of school, the beginning of life. The picture died out and the heart burst into sixty- six lights of gold and white, a picture of one of my classmates in the tip of each glow. Together the lights ascended and golden and white disappeared in the heavens. 20

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REFLECTIONS classmates took the prize. For intermission partners, candy in little May-baskets had to be matched, and ni} elassmates were making fine progress in the art of acquaintanceship, when, like a flash, the hall turned to an electric car, where candy and jollity seemed to reign. The next was a sehool scene. My classmates were marching into the assembly hall. The boys wore white tags upon their backs. These tags bore the black figures, 6 to 1. Their faces were exultant with smiles. Away in the baek of the room did I see the sad-faeed juniors? Another schoolroom scene appeared. In the large room in which seniors are given the honor of sitting, nearly all of my classmates were assembled, but they did not all seem to try to speak at once. They were quite polite; none of them spoke at onee, in fact, they didn’t any of them speak at all, for school was keeping and they were busy doing nothing, whieh is the law of seniors. It was so still it seemed as if all must be lost in thought. I imagined what my class- mates were thinking about. Were they thinking of spilled ink, or broken pencils, or hard lessons? Not at all. Were they thinking of hasty words or brok- en friendships ? Not at all. Shall I tell you what so gloomily held their thoughts ? Yes, that my words may in some way help the future classes and save them some of the pain which all seniors have experieneed. Underelassmen ! When you feel a sad and irresistible gloom eoming over you, when you are choking with a strange feeling, you know not what, throw it off. Do not allow yourself to think. Run, jump, dance, do anything, or grief will over- eome you and you will not be able to help it. You will think of the long 3 ears of work you have had 19

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18. Ross speaks of the “character” of a k) . 9. Miss Blanchard appears in blinders. 15. The class reorganizes. 16. Athletic association reorganizes. 3. School reopens. Freshies lake the ele- vator to the fourth floor. Dickinson late, as usual. Chronology 22. Those “dead slow” juniors receive an invitation to Gardner for the 18th. 23. “ Banty ” takes command of the “Senior Brigade.” 24. Hackett speaks too low for Munn. What’s goi ng to happen? 25. Nothing happens. 26. A cat inspects Assembly hall. Ninth class meeting. Class reorganization is completed. 29. We are appointed. Seven S organizes. 30. First Hathaway Club meeting. OCTOBER. 2. Porter Lowe makes a bet with Cobb and loses. “Payable in thirty days.” 7. Munn takes a nap in Assembly hall. 8. Hackett does not know how to say “We love each other.” 10. Keene H. S., 12; F. H. S., 0. Try again. 16. R. Lowe goes to dancing school, to dance, not to learn. Total eclipse of the moon. Oh ! ! ! ! 17. Dickinson sleeps over. Tech class is defeated by the Spaulding-Brown combination. 22. Waltham H. S., 45; F. H. S., 0. S-chocking ! ! ! 23. Cobb finds a small doll on his desk. Good joke. 24. Some of us go chestnutting. 25. Lancaster H. S., 0; F. H. S., 34. Gee!!! 27. Cobb demonstrates the impossible. 28. Mossman tries to stretch out one triangle to fit another. Cobb advises him to get a rubber one. 21