Fitchburg High School - Boulder Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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Then, wishing to keep the school in ood order, we took it in our hands to remove the very detrimental Senior flag from the top of the building, although we were urged by Mr. Woodbury not to bother about it. In athletics our class also excelled. Through the toilings of Des- mond, Holton, Porter, Vose, Howarth, Johnson, Reardon, Fine, Remal, Joyce, and Davis, we were able to win the league champion- ship in football; and in basketball, with Fogarty, Johnson, Water- house, and Vose we won the same high honor. The class showed its spirit at the choosing of a dedicatee for the class book and still again at the meeting held to plan money- raising schemes. We had a thrilling speech on making the book “a business proposition” and using dedicatees as “advertisements.” By this spirit the book committee were stirred up and have, in the short period of four weeks, published this, the best of all class books. In patriotism too, we are of the highest order. At the beginning of our troubles with Mexico, our Senior football squad volunteered their services, and this fact was the direct instigator of the splendid letter of appreciation of our class which President Wilson sent us. In fact, the Juniors are the only body who do not appreciate our worth, but to these we say, “May they follow along this same course of intelligence, behavior, athletics, school spirit, and patriotism, and then they too will appreciate those who have beaten out this pathway, paved with yellow roses and shaded with everblooming laurels,” for now at graduation we stand on the top rung of our ladder, not toppling back, but ready to put our foot upon the clouds, than which no mortal can hope to ascend higher. 13

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U NLIKE other classes, it has only taken the Class of ’14 three years and ten months to become the greatest class the school has yet seen. Every Senior teacher daily acknowledges the intelli- gence of our class. When we entered the high school, the teachers found we were so well trained that it was thought advisable to drop the ninth grade. At the time that our intellectual ability was commanding this change, our behavior was necessitating another radical change, that of dis- carding the demerit system. There was no use for demerits any longer. At this time an entirely new idea was conceived. Athletics, de- bating clubs, and the various other organizations connected with the school have been sadly neglected since, but our daily matinee under the direction of Miss Maud Whitney has received the earnest support of each and every member of our class. Starting to climb as we did, on a rung far from the lowest on the ladder of fame, we rose steadily until in our Junior year we stood on one much higher than any other class had on its day of graduation. While the Seniors were for months preparing a little play, we, in a period of two weeks, pushed through the pageant which everyone knows to have been the superlative degree of success. 12

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THE CLASS OF 1914,