By virtue of his outstanding performance in the 2018 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO), Class I’s Ben LaFond has been selected as one of eight high school students who will represent the United States at this summer’s International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) in Prague. More than 1,700 students from the U.S. and Canada participate […]
On Wednesday, 18 April, Roxbury Latin celebrated in Hall the eleven members of Class I whose efforts and accomplishments earned them membership in the Cum Laude Society. The school was honored to welcome as the Cum Laude speaker Dr. Richard Melvoin, who this June retires after 25 years as head of Belmont Hill School. The all-school […]
On 6 April, seniors Joe Nero and Andrew Steinberg traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, as part of the United States team competing at the 2018 World Individual Debate and Public Speaking Championships (WIDSPC). During the five-day tournament, which includes 130 students from around the word, speakers compete in four events: Impromptu Speaking, Parliamentary Debate, […]
Roxbury Latin hosted its annual A Cappella Fest on Friday, 6 April, at 7:30 pm in the Smith Theater. The biggest show of the year for the Latonics, A Cappella Fest 2018 included guest performances by the Yale SOBs (with Ben Kieff ’16), Wellesley High School’s Inchordination, and Dover-Sherborn’s DS Al Coda. As always, Nate Piper and Rob […]
Collaboration and originality characterized the performances of eleven student musicians in Hall on 10 April. The Tuesday morning performances began with a cello ensemble—Eric Zaks II, Raphael Deykin II, Justin Shaw VI, Cameron Estrada III. Two piano solos (Chris Zhu III, Beethoven, and Milan Rosen II, Debussy) were followed by a string duo (Alex Yin […]
How do you detect irony in someone’s voice? What part of a plant is best for vegetative propagation? What effect does a combination of alcohol and sleeping pills have on water fleas? Over the last couple of months, the Honors Biology students in Dr. Peter Hyde’s class were answering these questions and more, with help […]
On 3 April, Headmaster Kerry Brennan welcomed students and faculty back from R.L.’s March break, thus launching the 2018 spring term, and reminding all that our remaining school days with Class I counterparts numbered only 12. Headmaster Brennan set the tone, and the morning’s theme, with a retelling of the myth of Daedalus and Icarus, […]
A pair of mother-and-son poets, reading from their newly published—and even newer, unpublished—work and representing the same school is, perhaps, a unique event. On Monday, 2 April, Roxbury Latin’s writer-in-residence and member of the English faculty, Dr. Kate Stearns, and her son, Nate Klug, R.L. Class of 2004, read aloud to an overflowing crowd at […]
Central to Roxbury Latin’s mission and tradition is tending to the spiritual growth of boys. Since the spiritual life can take many forms—a communion with nature, a foundation in organized religion, a commitment to service, a journey toward strong moral character—we annually bring speakers to campus who represent a range of faiths and religions. On […]
Spring break provides a welcome pause for faculty and students alike between the long winter term and the “home stretch.” It also offers a window for international travel for about one hundred RL boys, whose faculty leaders have developed itineraries that augment and enhance their students’ recent studies. Class IV boys, with nearly three […]