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

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FOREWORD From its colonial beginning as a few small settlements on the cold, Indian-infested shore of the Atlantic, the United States has been guided along the road of might and prosperity by men whose courageous and unselfish thoughts and actions have kept back the destructive forces that have beset her. No small con- tributor to the ranks of these men has been our Alma Mater, for, since her founding in 1635, as the nation's first public school, Boston Latin School has given to the country scores of leaders who have served on the battlefields, in the legislatures, in the halls of justice, and in the schools and hospitals. As history has emerged from one period into the next, our alumni have ever displayed the noble qualities which are even now, three hundred years later, associated with the graduates of Latin School. As we record the history of the Class of 1954 in the Liber Aclorum, we shall show how, in each period of the history of our country, the men of B.L.S. have met and faced the national crises. We shall illustrate the unselfish devotion of these men to their country, their world, and their God. We of the graduating class express the hope and the prayer that in some future time the deeds performed by the men of our ranks may be looked upon with the same pride with which we regard the accomplishments of the graduates whose names adorn these pages.

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I FACULTY ..... SENIORS ...... ACTIVITIES ..... ATHLETICS ..... ORGANIZATIONS CONTENTS

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