Cambridge High and Latin School

Leland Foster Perkins “Perk”

Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, listed Leland Foster Perkins (“Perk”) among 237 graduates in the class of 1919. The entry gives: lived at 10 Mellen Street. Portrait and entry from the Cambridge Review, page 41.

Class of 1919

237 in the class of 1919 · 89 more named Perkins

Full name: Leland Foster Perkins
Known as: Perk
Lived at: 10 Mellen Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1919
Headed for: Will enter Harvard

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Neighbours 16
Same surname 73
Classmates 236
Same schools 1

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Of the 237 entries from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1919 read for this site, Leland's is 189th alphabetically. On the scan, the entry sits on page 41, in the last third of the stretch from page 17 to page 48 where this site found the book's portraits. People named Perkins appear in 9 classes of Cambridge High and Latin School on this site between 1919 and 1929, 10 in all. Leland's plan is printed as “Will enter Harvard”, which counts here as a college or university; 69 of the 126 classmates who named a plan (55%) named the same kind. The class of 1919: 60% of classifiable plans point to a college or university, versus 47% in 1918 and 60% in 1920.

On the same scan page	Bertha Lillian Paynter, Madeline Violet Paynter, Beatrice May Qualls
Same kind of plan	college or university: 69 of 126 classmates with a plan (55%)
The book's own title	The Cambridge Review

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1919, page 41. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1919unse).

Published 1919, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Cambridge Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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