Each January, Roxbury Latin celebrates the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a Hall in his honor. On January 17, Headmaster Brennan reminded the boys and faculty why we “pause to recognize the contributions of this remarkable man and to consider anew the principles of justice, equality, and brotherhood—principles he pursued […]
A family of four huddles in the center room of their concrete home in San Juan as the wind shrieks around them and rain hammers against the small skylight above. The father, a professor of literature desperate to distract his terrified wife and children, begins to recount stories of as many literary storms as he […]
When Erik Zou ‘19 was young, he had a fish tank. Fascinated by the beauty of the fish it contained, but not yet possessing the fine motor skills to capture it, he asked his dad to draw the fish as he watched, completely rapt. When he was still too young to hold a paint brush, […]
In Rousmaniere Hall on January 3, Headmaster Kerry Brennan welcomed students and faculty back from the winter break, launching the 2019 winter term and reminding all of the ripe opportunity for reflection the new year affords, as we practice “the flip of one calendar to another” and the associated, requisite personal accounting. The essential quality […]
“I cannot help but feel that there was some divine plan that placed this continent here between the two great oceans to be found by people from any corner of the earth — people who had an extra ounce of desire for freedom and some extra courage to rise up and lead their families, their […]
On Friday, December 7, both sacred and secular songs filled a bedecked Rousmaniere Hall, kicking off a season of celebration. With nearly 300 guests in attendance, the musical event began with a holiday concert by The Sly Voxes, an all-male a cappella group featuring talented Roxbury Latin alumni and parents, and directed by Headmaster Kerry […]
“Globally, we’re seeing an increased emphasis on division and othering,” says Dr. Evan McCormick, this year’s Smith Fellow. Both physical and abstract borders, he explains, fill our newspapers, television screens, and Twitter feeds. Literal division at national borders has garnered worldwide attention through chants of “Build that Wall” and boats of asylum-seekers cropping up on […]
For fourteen years, Roxbury Latin has begun the last school day before the Thanksgiving break with a tradition that is distinctly RL. Thanksgiving Exercises are an opportunity to, as Headmaster Brennan said, “pause amidst the busyness of our lives to do two things. First, to remember what we like to call “the first Thanksgiving”—the circumstances, […]
On November 16 and 17, RL’s thespians performed this year’s Senior Play, “It Can’t Happen Here,” based on the 1935 semi-satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis. Published during the rise of fascism in Europe, the story follows the ascent of Buzz Windrip, a charismatic and power-hungry politician who is elected President of the United States on […]
On November 12, Headmaster Brennan welcomed students, faculty, staff and three dozen guests—alumni, parents, grandparents—to Roxbury Latin’s annual Veterans Day Hall, which honors, as Mr. Brennan began, “those veterans who are with us, and also all those others who have served our country in peacetime and wartime over the past 250 years. Their commitment, loyalty, […]