Boston Latin School - Liber Actorum Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Mr. Edwin F. A. Benson, Head Front Row lleft to rightl: Messrs. Dunn, Russo, Hobbs, Benson, Head, Marson, C. R. Taylor, Sands. Rear Row: Messrs. Collins, F. C. Cleary, Callanan, Finn, Briclcley, A. L. Taylor, O'Keefe, Neville, Sheehan. FRENCH DEPARTMENT Mr. Max Levine, Head Front Row lleft to rightl: Messrs. Ar- nold, Levine, Head, Pike. Rear Row: Messrs. Bourgeois, C. S. Fitz- gerald, Pennypacker, Scully, Van Steen bcrgcn, MCGllfIih. SCIENCE DEPARTMENT Mr. john J. Quinn, Head Frotl Row lleft to rightl: Messrs. Shea, j. J. Quinn, Headg Wales. Rear Row: Messrs. Lord, Thompson Carroll. PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT Left to right: Mr. Patten, Col. Penney Mr. Fitzgerald.

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LATIN AND GREEK DEPARTMENT Mr. Henry R. Gardner, Head Front row fleft to rightl: Messrs. Cray, Wilbur, Glover, Gardner, Head, O,Calla- han, G. Cleary, Wenners, Marnell. Rear Row: Roche, Hopkinson, Sullivan, O'Brien, Dobbyn, Dolan, O'Donnell. MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT Mr. Elmer R. Bowker, Head Front Row Cleft to rightlz Messrs. Fitz- patrick, Fitzgerald, Faxon, Bowker, Head, Cannell, Lucey, Cheetham. Rear Row: Messrs. Falvey, Klein, Gretsch, Dobbyn, Doyle, R. F. O,Brien, Hennessey, Kozodoy, Gilbert. HISTORY DEPARTMENT Mr. William H. Peirce, Head Front Row fleft to rightlz Messrs. French, Nemzoff, Peirce, Head, Godfrey, Murphy. Rear Row: Messrs. Rosenthal, O'Leary, Gordon. GERMAN DEPARTMENT Mr. Frederick G. Getchell, Head Front Row fleft to rightlz Messrs. Gal- line, Getchell, Head, Weinert. Rear Row: Messrs. Pennypacker, Van Steenbergen.

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Bruton, ' nl 7635- 7 940 To be able to look back over more than three hundred years of worthy achievement is the heritage that belongs to the students and graduates of the Boston Public Latin School. Founded on April 23, 1635, by the Town of Boston, the School enjoys the distinction of being known everywhere as the most ancient and honorable public school in America. A man who would know the history of Boston during any of its many years would do well to study the records of the School Library. For in the lives of its young men is found the story of a city and of a nation. Early in America's infancy one of the first settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Reverend john Cotton, sought to establish a free school in the new world, to be modelled in curriculum after Free Grammar School in Boston, England. Town archives show his success and record the approval of Philemon Pormort as the first Master, who was to keep the School at his own house. A year later, as enrollment increased, Daniel Maude was chosen to assist him. Head Master Pormort, seeking religious freedom in the New World, became dissatisfied with the doctrines of Boston minis- ters and so joined the followers of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson and founded the town of Exeter, New Hampshire. As a result, Maude became headmaster, and the School moved to his home until the erection, in 1645, of the first school house. To this day, the street on which the first schoolhouse stood is known as School Street. School was opened in these times by the master's reading Altendemnr, the roll call, and rhymed North Side School Street 1645-1748 Page Fourteen psalms from the Bible. It closed with the Latin Depolzife Libmr, Set down the books. The Town allowed fifty pounds and a house to the Master, and thirty pounds to his assistant, ,..,,X-4... 4 ms. a -z ,Z 2 X-:tg .. 1 l -5- - Ei C ESX. f ,f X 1' Il NP .. - st Xl: X'T1 - . .Q 'i:.T -.3 . 3' 4 -- .,,':'-x' 1 3f fal ,L E! KL,-1 x 1 , -- . ,,..,.. -75312 X fi ' V 51,116 9 5-TQEETL 'xv azf'wi:1gf4z: : --A -5 ,Q I- ' -N c'-15- eff. mfg.-. 'i ii is ':. gr, meer' -.-Tr ' , -55 '. ' gjxp-, ' - 5 L . X A ' e' ,i cfsttgf- LEE '-fi, ?lg:,,,., M -:argl - 7- S '. i?l a V' Trim,-fe: H: rf 2, f ie lc' ef? fl f' eff: ff - .-'QA' F-757.93-- T 'iz . - f.fL1Q A. . 515 , M a.---4-'- 1 -2 my L .L S . - e --1 gy A - 1 ' ' --'-r - ' 'a' -- --- 7-X.:-' IQ. .C f ,H-.. 1- - , '4T1.',.,'f'. I 'w f-ts ' - wf-r - ,' '-'-A 4 '- - - . ,, ,.. ,,i- ' South Side School Street 1748-1812 known as an Usher. In addition, the rents of Deer, Long, and Spectacle Islands were assigned to the support of the School. The celebrated Ezekiel Cheever, who was generally regarded as the best teacher in the colonies and who had authored the famous Accidence, the accepted Latin Grammar. became head master some time later and served in that capacity until his death in office in 1708. His successor, Nathaniel Williams, was the first pupil to become head master. During Williams' years the Master's salary was raised to one hundred pounds, and the usher was still supplied at the Town's expense. In 1734 Williams resigned, and john Lovell, his assistant, was appointed to the vacancy-to become the pride of Boston's parents and the terror of its youth. The years of Lovell's office were the beginnings of dis- content and the seed-time of revolution among the colonists. Lovell's son james, an ardent patriot, was appointed usher in 1670. The