Over the weekend Roxbury Latin juniors Ian Richardson and Chris Zhu, along with recent graduate Robert Cunningham ‘18, participated in the Hack Umass Hackathon—36 hours of creativity, concentration, coding, and competition. Their team—which also recruited two female computer science students from UMass—won the Hackathon’s Grand Prize out of more than 250 teams—mostly comprising college students. […]
In Hall on October 9, Ms. Kory Stamper—a lexicographer who spent almost 20 years as an associate editor at Merriam-Webster—led boys and faculty along an informative and entertaining traverse through the English language. Her talk titled “Is Proper English Proper?” was a brief history of Standard English. She explained how, in England, as books became […]
The Reverend F. Washington Jarvis, III, Roxbury Latin’s 10th Headmaster, died the morning of October 7, after a long, courageous battle with cancer. On Tony’s passing, Headmaster Kerry Brennan shared the following with the RL community: Tony Jarvis was the most significant figure in the School’s fourth century. Tony arrived on the scene in 1974, […]
For his Western Civilization project last year, Conor Downey, Class III, designed and crafted a reproduction of the famed stained glass window—depicting Mary and the Christ Child—from the Cathedral at Chartres, France. The piece of artwork—a labor of love for which Conor earned RL’s informal “Best in Show”—now has a new and permanent home on […]
Last year, Lucas Zheng won first place in the Senior Historical Paper category in the state round of the National History Day competition. His essay titled Treaty of Lausanne, on the Greco-Turkish War, moved through stages of advanced rounds in the competition, reviewed by History faculty members Tim Kelly and Chris Heaton. This fall, Lucas’s […]
“At RL, as you know, we care not only about helping you develop your intellectual passions and pursuits, but also about helping you develop the tools to lead physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy lives,” began Headmaster Brennan on the morning of September 20, as he addressed boys in Classes IV through I. Last Thursday’s presentation […]
The National Merit Scholarship Program recently announced the names of students in the Class of 2018, across the country, earning recognition for their academic achievement. This year, 25 Roxbury Latin boys have been recognized—five named National Merit Scholar semifinalists, and 20 others earning commendations from program officials. In this 64th annual National Merit Scholarship competition, […]
A time-honored custom at Roxbury Latin is recognizing, as a school, important moments within various religious traditions. We do this, as Headmaster Kerry Brennan describes, not simply for the pursuit of knowledge, nor in celebration of our school’s great diversity, but because “in hearing about and from the witnesses to these different faith traditions, our […]
Last spring, then senior Ben LaFond performed very well in the 2018 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad—earning himself a spot representing the United States at the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) this summer in Prague. There his linguistic success continued. Ben earned a gold medal in the individual contest of the 2018 IOL competition. His team […]
“Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege… Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it.” Headmaster Kerry Brennan enlisted the words of the […]