SCHOLARS WHO SERVED IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.

The tablets on either side of the main entrance of the School read as follows, that on the left hand :

The right hand tablet reads as follows:

* Should be Robert McLaren Bockus.

To the above should be added Robert Herrick Buck, William Tilton Clark, Frederic William Hathaway.

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WHEN the new building in Warren Avenue was occupied by the School, it was proposed that the Latin School Association should celebate the event with appropriate ceremonies. A distinguished pupil of the School was invited to deliver an address before the Association, and ex-Master Dixwell to write a Latin Ode for the occasion. The expected orator proving unable to comply with the request of the Committee, the idea of the celebration was reluctantly abandoned. Mr. Dixwell, however, wrote the Ode, which was read at the next meeting of the Latin School Association, and privately circulated. The Committee has thought that Mr. Dixwell's kindness deserves grateful mention, and that the Ode should be preserved by being printed here.

MATRIS ALME

IN TECTA NOVA INTROITUS

MDCCCLXXXI.

Cum patres nostri posuere sedes
Inter intonsos tumulos, pusillam
Te fovebant hic pietate moti,
Mater et altrix.

Plus ducentos dein hominum per annos
Sæcla transibant, humilique tecto

Naviter claros juvenes alebat

Cara magistra.

Principes, et qui tonitru domabat,
Agmen heroum patriæ salutem
Qui receptabant gladiis, meabant
Inter alumnos.

En sacratos, juridicos, disertos,
Gentis humanæ stabiles amicos,
Integros cives 'scelerisque puros'
Mater alebat.

Nunc domus surgit foribus superbis,
Atriis et marmoreis; et intus
Laureos natis tribuens honores
Præsidet ipsa.

Huc senes grati juvenesque docti
Ad novos fontes adeunt Camenûm
Clariores quà modulantur undis
Carmina rivi.

Auream frondem cupidè petunt, quæ
Ducit omnes ad taciturna regna
Quà beati præteriti loquuntur

Ore silenti.

Quanta vis est indomitæque mentis
Sic adeptum robur; et inde quanto
Altius tendunt, comitante Musâ
Temporis acti!

Sæculum salve sapientiorum

Gloriâ præstans meliusque nostro
Forsitan; sis mox utinam per omnes
Nobile gentes!

Et precor, Mater mea, sis perennis;
Dumque vocales dominantur artes,
Suasionis vim doceas per orbem

Sceptra tenentis.

Ap., 1881.

P.

THE following extract is taken from the Records of the Boston School Committee:

OCT. 14th, 1822. A letter from a gentleman was read offering $50 as a premium for the best scholar in the year 1823 in the Latin School and also in the English Classical School.

To the Hon. John Phillips, Mayor, &c.

Sir: I propose with the concurrence of your honour and the Board of Aldermen at the annual examination of the Public Schools in Boston which take place in 1823, to offer a gold medal of the value of $50, with an appropriate devise and inscription to be executed under the direction of the Head Master of the Centre

Latin School to the pupil of the said School who shall at that time be adjudged by the School Committee and the principal Instructor to be the best scholar in the School and whose conduct and deportment during the year preceding shall have been such as to have evinced diligence in his studies, respect to his instructors and urbanity towards his associates. The said medal to be delivered to the successful candidate at Faneuil Hall by the Mayor immediately before sitting down to dinner on the day of the examination, and the occurrence with the name of the juvenile Emeritus to be entered on the Records of the City.

I propose to offer at the same time and under the like circumstances a similar donation of equal value to the first and most approved scholar from the English Classical School in Derne St., the medal in this instance to be executed under the direction of the principal master of that School.

Should these propositions meet the acceptance of yourself and the Board of Aldermen I will make the needful deposit to ensure their being carried into effect, and under this event, in order that the desired result of exciting an emulalation among the youth of our city to excel alike in application to their studies and in the correctness of their deportment may be produced in a greater degree, I beg leave further to suggest the expediency of a printed label in large type struck off and posted in some conspicuous place in the School rooms, briefly stating the prize which will be awarded and the conditions attached to its attainment.

Another stipulation alone remains to be mentioned, which is, if the proposition be accepted, that the name of the donor shall not be made public.

With great respect I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,

In a letter transmitting a copy of this record for preservation in the archives of the Boston Latin School Association, Mr. Dillaway writes::

"Though Mr. Lloyd's name is not given it was generally understood that he was the donor.

"Those who are acquainted with the jovial times our City Fathers used to have at the Faneuil Hall dinner on examination day will appreciate the wisdom of presenting the medal 'immediately before sitting down to dinner.'

"What strikes me as singular is that the names of the boys receiving the medals are not on the Records of the School Committee. Of course their names would be on the Records of the City Council. They should have been on both."

Q.

FRANKLIN MEDAL SCHOLARS.

IN the Annual Report of the School Committee for 1857 will be found an account of the Franklin Medals, and the conditions on which they have been awarded. We give on a separate page a representation of the forms which they have at different times assumed, from the engravings in the possession of the School Committee, which we have kindly been allowed to copy. Be