Cambridge High and Latin School

Carl Louis Hoss “Spud”

Class of 1927, Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Carl Louis Hoss (“Spud”). The yearbook entry prints: came from Harvard Grammar School; headed for Dartmouth College; lived at 15 Maple Avenue. Portrait and entry from the Golden Treasury, page 83.

Class of 1927

459 in the class of 1927 · 2 more named Hoss

Full name: Carl Louis Hoss
Known as: Spud
Lived at: 15 Maple Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Came from: Harvard Grammar School
Headed for: Dartmouth College

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Household 1
Neighbours 21
Classmates 458
Same schools 108

In context

This site lists 459 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927; sorted by surname, Carl comes 213th. In the scan, Carl appears on page 83, around the middle of the run of 459 portraits read for this site (pages 29 to 145). Carl did not arrive alone from Harvard Grammar School: 38 other graduates name it too. Carl's plan is printed as “Dartmouth College”, which counts here as a college or university; 191 of the 393 classmates who named a plan (49%) named the same kind. A college or university was the plan of 191 of 355 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1927 (54%), compared with 55% in 1926 and 58% in 1928.

On the same scan page	Joseph A. Horton, Doris Gertrude Hoyt, Paul Hughes
Same earlier school	Harvard Grammar School: 38 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 191 of 393 classmates with a plan (49%)
The book's own title	Golden Treasury

At home, 15 Maple Avenue

Same surname, same address — very likely a brother or sister.

William F. HossCambridge 1926

The 1928 city directory lists Carl Louis Hoss with the occupation “student” (page).

The 1926–27 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Hoss at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Oscar I Hoss, I (Hildegard) manager householderpage

The Hoss household is listed here in 1920, 1921, 1928 and 1930 too.

What Carl did at school

Swimming Team, 1926–27

What the yearbook said

One must now and then be right by chance.

Also grew up on Maple Avenue

The class of 1927

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Also came from Harvard Grammar School

Also headed for Dartmouth College

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1927, page 83. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1927unse).

Published 1927, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Malden Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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