Roxbury Latin School, founded in 1645 and located at 101 Saint Theresa Avenue in West Roxbury, Massachusetts since 1927, is the oldest school in continuous existence in North America.^[1] Founded in 1630 (contemporaneously with Boston), West Roxbury, Massachusetts was originally part of the town of Roxbury and was mainly used as farmland. ...

Roxbury Latin was established in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1645 by the Rev. John Eliot under a charter received from King Charles I of England. Now located in the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, the school serves close to 300 boys in grades seven through twelve. John Eliot founded the school "to fit [students] for public service both in church and in commonwealth in succeeding ages." The school's endowment is estimated at $143.8 million,^[2] the largest of any boys' school in the U.S. The school maintains a need-blind admissions policy, admitting boys without consideration of the ability of their families to pay the full tuition. As a result, most students receive financial aid. The school's board of directors announced in February that tuition would remain frozen at $17,900 for the 2007-2008 school year. Roxbury is a neighborhood within Boston, Massachusetts USA. It was one of the first towns founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and became a city in 1846 until it was annexed to Boston on January 5, 1868. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, King of Scotland and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. ... Founded in 1630 (contemporaneously with Boston), West Roxbury, Massachusetts was originally part of the town of Roxbury and was mainly used as farmland. ... Boston redirects here. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ...

Other significant claims to fame are its students' high SAT scores, which according in Peterson's "Private Seconday Schools 2007-2008" have a median of 2230 on the 2400 scale, believed to be the highest score of any school in the country.^[3] Boston Magazine has reported Roxbury Latin as having the highest SAT score of any New England independent school in the past.^[4] A 2004 piece in the Wall Street Journal noted Roxbury Latin for its acceptance rates at the most competitive universities, despite maintaining a low tuition relative to its peers.^[5] In 2003, Worth magazine ranked Roxbury Latin as the #1 "feeder school" for elite universities, with a larger portion of its graduating class attending Princeton, Harvard, or Yale than any other school.^[6] For other uses, see SAT (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see SAT (disambiguation). ... This article is about the region in the United States of America. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with an average daily circulation of 1,800,607 (2002). ... Worth is a personal finance and luxury lifestyle magazine in the United States. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... Harvard redirects here. ... Yale redirects here. ...

Its previous headmaster, F. Washington Jarvis, who retired in summer 2004 after a 30-year tenure, published two books about Roxbury Latin, a history of the school (Schola Illustra) and collections of his speeches to boys at Roxbury Latin (With Love and Prayers). The title of the former, Schola Illustris, was the phrase Cotton Mather used to describe the school in 1690, following John Eliot's death. In addition to those books, Richard Walden Hale published Tercentenary History of the Roxbury Latin School in 1946. Roxbury Latin continues to hold a unique place in the history of American education. This article is about the 17th century Puritan minister. ...

Roxbury Latin School is a member of the Independent School League and NEPSAC. It has an "unofficial" sister school relationship with The Winsor School in Boston. The Independent School League (ISL) is composed of sixteen prestigious New England preparatory schools that compete athletically and academically. ... The New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) was founded in 1942 as an organization of athletic directors from preparatory schools in New England. ... Founded in 1886, The Winsor School is a girls college prep school for day students in grades 5-12. ...

Notable alumni

• John Bowles (1667) – Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
• John Wise (1669) – clergyman credited with revolutionary phrase, "no taxation without representation"
• James Pierpont (1677) – principal founder of Yale University
• Paul Dudley (1686) – Chief Justice of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1745-1751) and Attorney General of Massachusetts (1702-1718)
• Joseph Warren (1755) – Continental Army General who was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, surgeon
• Increase Sumner (1763) – governor of Massachusetts (1797-1799), Justice of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1782-1797)
• John Warren (1767) – founder of Harvard Medical School, renowned surgeon
• Francis Cabot Lowell (1789) – businessman, member of Boston Lowell family, founder of Lowell, Massachusetts
• Charles Russell Lowell, Sr. (1796) – Royal Society and Harvard University fellow
• Edmund M. Wheelwright (1872) – architect, designed Boston and Cambridge landmarks such as Longfellow Bridge, Horticultural Hall, and Jordan Hall
• George Lyman Kittredge (1875) – influential literary scholar and professor at Harvard University
• Edwin Upton Curtis (1878) - 34th and youngest everMayor of Boston
• Hermon Bumpus (1884) – fifth president of Tufts University
• Arthur Vining Davis (1884) – president of Aluminum Company of America (1910-1949), major educational benefactor in United States
• Robert W. Wood (1887) – American physicist, professor at Johns Hopkins University
• Frederick Winsor (1888) – founder of The Middlesex School
• Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. (1890) - landscape architect
• Edward Lee Thorndike (1891) – famed psychologist, former professor at Columbia, member of National Academy of Sciences
• William Welles Hoyt (1894) – gold-medal winner in the pole vault at the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens
• James Dole (1895) – founder of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company in Honolulu, Hawai'i currently known as Dole Food Company
• Malcolm Whitman (1895) – tennis star, U.S. open champion in 1898, 1899, and 1900, member of original Davis Cup team, member of Tennis Hall of Fame
• Charles W. Tobey (1897) – Governor, US Representative, and Senator of New Hampshire (did not graduate)
• Ramsen B. Ogilby (1898) – president of Trinity College (1920-1943)
• Curtis Wolsley Cate (1903) – founder of The Cate School
• Paul Dudley White (1903) – "Father of Modern Cardiology," noted cardiologist, founder of American Heart Association
• James B. Sumner (1906) – noted chemist, recipient of 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• James Bryant Conant (1910) – president of Harvard University, ambassador to Germany
• Marland P. Billings (1919) – noted geologist, Penrose Medal winner, Harvard University professor
• Albert Hamilton Gordon (1919) – School Trustee since 1940, Wall Street businessman, philanthropist
• Geoffrey W. Lewis (1928) – U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania and Central African Republic
• Charles T. Bauer (1938) – business leader, founder of AIM Investments
• Richard W. Murphy (1947) – former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Syria, Mauritania, Philippines, television commentator
• Richard Barnet (1948) – activist, scholar, co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies
• Jared Diamond (1954) – noted biologist, author and Pulitzer Prize-winner for Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesHe also wrote Collapse: Why Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
• Paul G. Kirk, Jr. (1956) - former chairman of the Democratic Party
• Christopher Lydon (1958) – radio broadcaster and former host of NPR's "The Connection"
• David R. Godine (1960?) - independent publisher
• Peter Rodman (1961) - former assistant Secretary of Defense
• Peter Derow (1961) - renowned historian, scholar; lecturer at Oxford University
• Roger Altman (1963) - investment banker and former U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary
• Michael J. Astrue (1974) - current Commissioner of Social Security Administration

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Rivalries

Roxbury Latin's most spirited games, of late, have been with the Belmont Hill School. RL's most prominent rivalry, historically, is with Noble and Greenough School. The rivalry with Nobles has diminshed slightly since 1975, the year that Nobles became coeducational. Belmont Hill School an all-boys preparatory school located on a 23 acre campus in Belmont, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. ... The Noble and Greenough School, popularly referred to as Nobles, is a coeducational, nonsectarian day and boarding school for students in grades seven through twelve. ...

Athletics

In 2007, RL added its third ISL championship in the last 7 years in baseball, while also recently winning championships in tennis, cross country, wrestling, and back-to-back Division III New England track championships. RL has earned a post-season berth in the NEPSAC basketball playoffs in two of the past three seasons. The varsity soccer team lost in the ISL championship this year. The New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) was founded in 1942 as an organization of athletic directors from preparatory schools in New England. ...

References

The Independent School League (ISL) is composed of sixteen prestigious New England preparatory schools that compete athletically and academically. ... This article is about the region in the United States of America. ... Belmont Hill School an all-boys preparatory school located on a 23 acre campus in Belmont, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. ... Address 80 Gerrys Landing Road Town Cambridge, Massachusetts Country U.S. Browne & Nichols established 1883, by George H. Browne & Edgar H. Nichols[1] The Buckingham School established 1889 Buckingham Browne & Nichols merger 1974 Conference Independent School League Type Private Coeducational Religious Affiliation Secular Grades Pre-K to 12 (on... Brooks School // Brooks School is a private co-educational preparatory secondary school in North Andover, Massachusetts near the shore of Lake Cochichewick . ... The Governors Academy (formerly Governor Dummer Academy) is an independent school with 376 students in grades nine through twelve. ... Groton School is a private, Episcopal, college preparatory boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts, U.S. It enrolls approximately 350 boys and girls, from the eighth (Second Form) through twelfth grades (Sixth Form). ... Lawrence Academy at Groton Lawrence Academy at Groton, (occasionally called LA or Lacademy), is a co-educational preparatory school located in Groton, Massachusetts, in the United States. ... Middlesex School The Circle, Middlesex School, Concord, Massachusetts Clay Centennial Center, Middlesex School, Concord, Massachusetts Middlesex School is an independent preparatory school for grades 9 - 12 located in Concord, Massachusetts, USA. It was founded in 1901 by Frederick Winsor, who headed the school until 1937. ... Milton Academy is a private, preparatory, coeducational boarding and day school in Milton, Massachusetts. ... The Noble and Greenough School, popularly referred to as Nobles, is a coeducational, nonsectarian day and boarding school for students in grades seven through twelve. ... The Rivers School The Rivers School is a private, coeducational, preparatory school, located in Weston, Massachusetts. ... St. ... For the school in Dallas, see St. ... , This is about St. ... Saint Sebastians School, also known colloquially as St. ... Thayer Academy (TA) is a private, co-educational, college-preparatory day school located in Braintree, Massachusetts. ...

External links

• Roxbury Latin School