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

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ruled with difficulty until 1805. He was suc- ceeded by Wfilliam Bigelow, who after nine years of still rougher going, also resigned. This period of scholastic rebellion ended abruptly with the advent of Benjamin Apthorp Gould and his introduction of the misde- meanor mark . He also founded the School Library, began the practice of declamation, and caused regular reports of scholarship and con- duct to be sent to the parents. Gou1d's successor in 1828 was another author -this time Frederic Leverett, whose Latin Lexiconi' soon was adopted as a standard volume. He remained in office three years, resigning to become head of a private school. -2 W, i?4f',.:-5:11-. 3 - - -fauna-1.6, H milf' L L Q 1 ,V Wi .. -. -. I ' - - Y. il l T. EI - El fl Q ' 1 wil l il: H -' di : ii 5 i, w ' f ii: 2- -1 --f-if . l l w ill if 3 l f 1 AL? ia lls i l1, lit -,i ly se H - ' -ffl 5 !13lltl.wi .!' H , f 7, . -gf l lyll 'i'1 '?1'.'. 'L gl il id lih lal -1 mill' Y ' lil ill,-it 1 ..... i ,H A , - Y,,L,- it T . -:-fi' fffvg A3 fx' In IS44 the school moved to Bedford Street. One of the most important among the earlier masters assumed his duties in 1836. He was Epes Sargent Dixwell, a former instructor at the English High School. During his term of fifteen years the Library took shape and became an actuality. In passing, it is interesting to note that Dixwell had with him as usher the famous Edward Everett Hale, while the suc- ceeding master, Francis Gardner, had Phillips Brooks. Both of these ushers later distin- guished themselves as great religious leaders in Boston. Gardner, himself, was one of the most renowned men of New England in the middle of the nineteenth century. He edited a series of Latin text-books, vigorously opposed any alteration of the School's time-honored curriculum, made both many friends and many enemies, and was eminent as a just and practi- cal Yankee. He died in 1876, the first master to die in office since Ezekiel Cheever. With increasing enrollment, the School found it necessary to move first to quarters on Bedford Street and a generation later to a double building on Warren Avenue which it shared with the English. High School. The master at this time was Dr. Moses Merrill, who reorganized the method of instruction and the subject-matter on a sane and more modern basis. A man of high character and strong moral influence, his work with but few changes from his original plans lives after him as an active memorial. The noble men who have followed him in our times are more vividly remembered by the present Masters and Alumni. To endeavor to estimate the scholarship, integrity, and love of Latin School Library 1940 Boston Post Page Sixteen

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father had always been a strong Loyalist. For a time they taught from desks at opposite ends of the schoolroom and voiced opposite political convictions, thus typifying many a Boston family in those trying times. Boys in the winter of 1774-75 brought sleds to school and in the afternoon coasted down Beacon Street across Tremont Street and down School Street. A servant of General Haldi- man, subordinate commander of the British troops in Boston and resident on School Street, cut up the coast and put ashes on it. The lads made a muster and presented their complaint to the General himself. Hearing their case, he ordered his servant to repair the coast, saying that he had enough trouble with Boston men and wanted none with Boston boys. The School closed on the morning of April 19, 1775 as head master john Lovell, hearing of the rout of English soldiers at the battles of Lexington and Concord, angrily cried, Wars begun, and School's done. Depouife libmr . At the evacuation of Boston in March of the following year, both the Lovells sailed with Lord Howe to Halifax, Nova Scotiag the father as Howe's guest, the son below decks as a prisoner of war. For admission to the school in this period, it was necessary for the candidate to read a few verses from the Bible. Each of the six or seven classes of the school sat at different benches as they studied Latin, Greek, and the elementary subjects . Classes started at seven o'clock in summer and eight in the winter, and closed at eleven. The afternoon session lasted from one o'clock until hve. After the regular lessons ' 9- Q . , ,llllllllw ' Lf ., V A ff f ' .si , 'ff' -' 4227 X 4 7fX L7 ' . 'f ' i-,Sr 5 ,4 -V mi? ,MQSI gy! L, xxx .nwli-ofa., , if-Evraall 4 x. Q.. S ,rs 2. I Inf-fi .:'k.,:,: EKU .,-V R - N3 1 1 4. X ' l' : Hi vf ,J wg' - -A fi V M T- Q ' :vg- 'Q:?1a: :a lEali,f -t 1. 1 5. F f if' ,- L -, Z2- I, 12-4f..I:' ' X - .E QE i io . f ax, ll' -, 'QM-X ,N f.. N x . l m. 5-by + - vi' 'if f 1 Q, ,, V Q '11,-cr 3' ,Q 1 - -' 34175 4- .'-13: T '- -y A '44 rfisiir-ll + :i f - - ,' tw jig 4 e or 1 95 , ' 15 , 1 W. f- Y Y ., EE-e4 tilf ef 1 1 fl' ',-1 45 '- TT,-3.27256 .2 iff - -,, : 5 Ellliigfgf fidi - W ' , . . -Y 5 ,A ' 22-3251111 7 -.1 - ' '- ll 5 i J-L P -' - 1. -.' 'W' ? Ef3E2'-141 P 5-' T , il... ifc gei-4: my W . I if 1 V. I 'hgh lar, sfifgf-s:J2fll:9g?f5 -,S J 1 1 f ll - l I .lL -' ' ' .5.,v.fg'jg5i3vf5i-1 .3 -r l I-V , 1, it ll A ,l'IiyL,1g . fge-'ras 5 H 1 fum ' . li 1' ' rifgll YJ' V 117 gil' 'la . ..... --l ' A 1 gr fi at - ., bf-'ef'--Q f .,....-,g- W, , 4 ' - Y-,,,..., H .,,..,, - was g dyes- .1 ug if .4 - -ff ,.. w T South Side School Street 1812-1844 pupils attended a nearby writing school. Thurs- day mornings at ten the School was dismissed in order that the pupils might attend the Thursday Lecture, a custom borrowed from Boston, England. The Latin School opened under Samuel Hunt following the departure of the Lovells. He .. .,..1q.2- - Gardner's Classroom - Bedford Street PJgc' Ffflerdll

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duty of these men is but to repeat the traditions of their calling. To speak of Arthur Fiske, the great Greek scholarg Henry Pennypacker, the nationally famous Chairman of the Committee ofAdmissions at Harvard Collegeg and thewell- loved Patrick Campbell, Superintendent of Boston Schools from 1931 to 1937 serves not to open new facts to the historian, but to recall pleasant memories of student days to the reader. The growth of the School and its consequent establishment in its imposing edifice on Avenue Louis Pasteur is remarkable. Despite its rapid growth, its graduates continued to make them- selves a more distinguished group than any other American school preparing young men for college. The members of this year's class must per- force feel the great tradition which has been handed down to them. All of us must under- stand what we have inherited. Over three hundred years of solid achievement may be interpreted as the dream of a colonial minister come true. We owe our success to the patient devotion of masters who have given their lives to the teaching serviceg to the deeds and ideals of noble graduatesg and to the industry and perseverance of the thousands of students who have been Latin School boys. l X X K st, vtffffQ5ii'm s -' K . , .4.1,g, i Le, f A me A , ADAMS S MX sgrg 9 N if ii l 'im 3- Fl A W W t I :ii 1 Ill 7 BOSIOI1 POS! Boston Post Boston Public Latin School 1940 Page 86111111 4 I1