English High School - Blue and Blue / Record Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Ivie and lue 1946 A Senior Class Publication of The English High School Boston, Massachusetts

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(Kfje CommontoeaUft of iHaSjsacJju etts By His Excellency MAURICE J. TOBIN Governor A PROCLAMATION 1946 0 1. hurulrcd and t veiit -livc years asro one of the mosl sit ' jiifitanl (it t li ipiiK ins in tlu- liis- tjt of frot; public education in America was undertaken in Massai hii ' etts when the citizens of Boston voted to establish a new kind of secondary scliool. ' ' hi i iuH)], ili - felt, should provide instruction beyond the L ' ranimar grades for boys who desired U; prcivtrc ihcnisclvcs for slaliorts ;u life ' .tlu r ihan thcisc rcquirini. ' the trailitional truinlns: afl ' ordcd by the Latin acadcmv and the rlassi.a! ...llr-r. Tlnis a ii)iu ii eil The Kiiglish 1 li ' tdi School ot Boston. ' I ' huv iv.i oriirinati il ,c form of train- iii ' j wliich has In-coiiie standard in llie [niltern of public dii. at ion i-i nicrica. ' riiioUL ' hnut I he .riiiiii; iih! a uuart( - ..f its rvi-u no I hi; I ' jidish IV-Ai - • ' • justificil till- uiiiliilc ' iic ot ihov,, «|„, i ' ,,resau ' t,-, ux.hili:. It Ins sent forth I: sands of loyal sons, ihcir intclliclual lacultics shaiiuanil ! ;, a;i vlU ' i tixi sinii ii ui ii 1 ' .a. •Ia n moral iibre strcnvrthenei! iy the inculcation ol sahiiai } j-i !;a ipic-. In peace and in war th.csc sons nl ' lliu faaalish ll ' i-h School have .on disltiK lion. The, ii.a f played a vital jiart in the cl ic, the ccononilc. .aaJ a h i , 1 .1 ! ; i h , .! n a ' l n y conn: i ri i ■ 1 , T ' ' - served their countr) uith licjnor in every conlli i ■ h •; aa W.ir ai ls)7 a. li. W ■ rcccnfh. ti-rniin,atcd. Thc ' ha vc built tor their . hi,a ! a ,1 o | a; 1 at loii -taonLi to ; 1 ot ni.siinii.o schaiol ill t h ' - riiitc.i States. In rt coL ' nition, therefore, of the historic sijn.ihca nee of the on ' hundreii and 1 ua a 1 -li 1 1 h ainii- versar of the foundinir of THE ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL and in tribute to the illustrious achievements of an institution thai has won such rcnuun, 1, .Maurice |. I ' obin. (jovernor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby diasienalr Wcdnesdav, Ma ' s, 1946, as a day for the appropriate observance of one of the epochal events In the develop- ment of the American system of free public education. (ilV ' EN at the I ' ' ,. ecutive Chamber in Boston, this tenth da ' of April, in the year of our Lord one t!ioii and nine hundred and forty-si.x; and of the Independence of ilic I nited States of America, the one hundred and seventieth. By I lis K.xcellencv the Ciovernor, MAI RK 1: I lOIUX. FRKDKRIC W. COOK, ScYrt ' tarv of C.ommov. ' .rrithb . ob abe St)e CommonbjeaUti o( illasisiactmdetts