Cambridge High and Latin School

David Crocker Dow, Jr. “Dave”

Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, listed David Crocker Dow, Jr. (“Dave”) among 319 graduates in the class of 1923. The entry gives: came from Peabody Grammar School; headed for Harvard; lived at 1587 Mass. Avenue. Portrait and entry from the Cambridge Review, page 56.

Class of 1923

319 in the class of 1923 · 32 more named Dow

Full name: David Crocker Dow, Jr.
Known as: Dave
Born: November 13, 1905
Lived at: 1587 Mass. Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1923
Came from: Peabody Grammar School
Headed for: Harvard

Also searched as: Dave Dow; David Dow; David C. Dow; Dow, David.

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Neighbours 4
Same surname 24
Classmates 318
Same schools 138

In context

David Crocker Dow, Jr. is number 66 of 319 in the alphabetical list of the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1923 on this site. In the scan, David appears on page 56, in the first third of the run of 319 portraits read for this site (pages 39 to 119). College or university was the plan of 119 of the 253 classmates who printed one (47%), and David is listed with “Harvard”. The first name David appears 30 times in the 13 Cambridge High and Latin School classes read for this site (1918 to 1930). For Cambridge High and Latin School, the site holds 319 people from the class of 1923, against 254 for 1922 and 366 for 1924.

On the same scan page	Anna Dorothy Dougenik, Winifred Doyle, Milan M. Drake
Same earlier school	Peabody Grammar School: 21 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 119 of 253 classmates with a plan (47%)
The book's own title	The Cambridge Review

What the yearbook said

David knocked his studies for an awful mean ‘Goliath’.

Also grew up on Mass. Avenue

The class of 1923

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Also came from Peabody Grammar School

Also headed for Harvard

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1923, page 56. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1923unse).

Published 1923, 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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