Brookline High School

Harry N. Alexander “Alex, Bik”

Class of 1927, Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts: Harry N. Alexander (“Alex, Bik”). The yearbook entry prints: headed for Boston University; activities listed: Track and French Club; lived at 40 Winchester Street. Portrait and entry from the 1927 yearbook, page 26.

Class of 1927

219 in the class of 1927 · 49 more named Alexander

Full name: Harry N. Alexander
Known as: Alex, Bik
Lived at: 40 Winchester Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Course: College
Headed for: Boston University
Pastime: “Fishing”

Also searched as: Harold Alexander; Harry Alexander; Alexander, Harry.

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Clubs & teams 219
Neighbours 46
Same surname 33
Classmates 218
Same schools 270

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 219 names from the Brookline High School class of 1927, Harry stands 2nd. In the scan, Harry appears on page 26, right at the start of the run of 219 portraits read for this site (pages 26 to 81). Neighbours on paper: 8 classmates share Winchester Street with Harry. Of the 209 entries in the class with a course, 72 (34%) say College, Harry's among them. 75% of the graduates in the class of 1927 whose plans we could classify named a college or university, against 68% in 1926 and 78% in 1928.

On the same scan page	Muriel Adams, George Maxwell Allen, Richard Allen
Same street	Winchester Street: 8 other classmates
Same club	Track: 14 other classmates
Same club	French Club: 64 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 65 of 125 classmates with a plan (52%)
Same course	College: 72 of 209 classmates with a course (34%)

At home, 40 Winchester Street

The 1928 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Alexander at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Israel Alexander (wife Lillian), fum householderpage

The Alexander household is listed here in 1925 and 1931 too.

What Harry did at school

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What the yearbook said

Ever affable — ever courteous

Also grew up on Winchester Street

The class of 1927

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Others named Alexander

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1927, page 26. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1927broo).

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

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