Fitchburg High School - Boulder Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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I N writing this history the author discovered that it was a much more difficult task than he had anticipated. To be a historian in the tine sense, one should give an uni:)rejudiced record of impor- tant events, showing the relation between them and their causes and effects. There was no trouble in finding the events, but it became doubly difficult for the author, a contemporary, when writing a his- tory of so illustrious a body as the Class of 1910, to refrain from plac- ing undue emphasis and praise on the many glorious deeds done by this class. However, if in the course of this history the reader imag- ines that the author has perhaps been a little partial at times, thereby prejudicing the work, he may ascribe it to the just pride which no member of this class could help feeling when reviewing its course of four years in this high school. The year 1906, following a period of preparation in the grammar school, marked the beginning of our remarkable career. It was a mem- orable day when we first came into the school, giving it new life and fresh spirit. We enlivened the recitations and endeavored to vary the monotony of life for the teachers, but strange to say, some of them didn’t appreciate it. This was a year of preparation. We laid the foun- dations for our future and incidentally amazed our teachers with our great abilities and our unquenchable thirst for knowledge. Our chief occupation was studying, as the well-worn textbooks soon showed, and from our record this year a brilliant future was predicted. The next year we began to take a more active part in school af- fairs. We pursued our studies as diligently as in former days, but we also began to win fame in athletics. As the result of many hard fought battles we won both the football and baseball championships 9