Cambridge Rindge and Latin: Encyclopedia II - Cambridge Rindge and Latin - History

Cambridge Rindge and Latin - History

CRLS is actually several separate schools combined into one greater whole. In 1648, just twelve years after the founding of Harvard University, a school system was set up in Newtowne, marking it the fifth town—after Boston, Charlestown, Dorchester, and Salem— in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to do so. Master Elijah Corlett's "lattin schoole" was born. The school was seen as a supplemental part of Harvard, and gained recognition far and wide.

Originally Rindge Tech and Cambridge High and Latin, the former began in 1888 by Frederick Hastings Rindge as The Cambridge Manual Training School, and the latter as both Cambridge English High School in 1838 and Cambridge Latin School in 1886, which came together later too and became Cambridge High and Latin. Finally, in 1977, the two schools Rindge Tech and the Cambridge High and Latin High School were merged, with the old Cambridge High and Latin building—then made mostly of wood—being finally torn down in 1980. Today a commemorative archway to the old Cambridge High and Latin building can still be observed on the street corner of Broadway and Ellery Streets overlooking the grassy field area of the Joan Lorentz Park.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "History", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki