Show FIRST AMERICAN SCHOOL On the of April 1635 the foundations foundations foundations of the present free school system In the United States were laid by the establishment of the Boston Latin school which h has been a famous institution institution institution of at learning from the beginning of its existence The event Is to be celebrated in ln the Hub this year rear an anthe nJ the occasion Is ts worthy of ot more more than passing mention The schools of ol this thib country at the tle present time are the wonder and admiration of the world Every known aid al to learning Is em employed employed employed In the instruction of the Amen Amari can youth and there are no burdens placed upon the parents on account o ot of poverty Two hundred and years ears ago the tho Puritan pilgrims were struggling gling for or Dr a bare bara ba existence In the land nd to which they had fled tIed to escape oppression oppression sion slon on account of ot their desire to wor worship worship worship ship God after a manner seeming good to them One Ona of the very first things thin s they did was to provide for the education education tion of their children During colonial colonial times that Idea was ever uppermost and the same spirit prevails today The schoolmaster has ever over been abroad In Inthis inthis inthis this land hand Harvard college was estabI established soon Boon after the Boston Latin Lath school and preparations made for a system of education which Included all al althe the knowledge of pf the time The number and excellence e of the universities o othe of the United States at the present the attest the fact that t In this respect r also the example set Jn fn n the early colonial colonia times has been b en faithfully The Boston Latin school whose anniversary is to be observed on AprIl Apr of ot the present year sent forth many noted men Jo o engage in the battle b o ot oL life It is said Q of the ue signers of the Declaration of Independence had tad been been Instructed in this th this s famous little Institution among them John Hancock Benjamin Franklin Samuel Adams William Hooper and Robert Treat Paine Among other celebrities in the world of religion art science e literature and politics who came from this school were Cotton Mather of witchcraft Wl witch h raft fame ame Governor Leverett L James Jarnes doln doin Wendell Phillips Rufus Choate M Evarts Rev Everett Hale Halo and Robert C O Winthrop Scores ot of others of ot more m re than ordinary ability might also be mentioned All hall hail to the tho Boston Latin school the ancestress of all the other institutions of at learning ln In n the country which still exists as a monument to the foresight of or the little band who landed lan ed upon u on Plymouth Rock |