Boston Latin School

Lester Sydney Kahn “Let”

Lester Sydney Kahn (“Let”) was one of 122 graduates in the class of 1927 at Boston Latin School, Boston, Massachusetts. Printed details: came from Sarah Greenwood School; headed for Tufts; activities listed: Football Squad and Glee Club. Portrait and entry from the 1927 yearbook, page 364.

Class of 1927

122 in the class of 1927 · 7 more named Kahn

Full name: Lester Sydney Kahn
Known as: Let
School: Boston Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Came from: Sarah Greenwood School
Headed for: Tufts

Also searched as: Let Kahn; Les Kahn; Lester Kahn; Lester S. Kahn.

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Clubs & teams 53
Same surname 4
Classmates 121
Same schools 26

In context

Of the 122 entries from the Boston Latin School class of 1927 read for this site, Lester's is 56th alphabetically. Lester's portrait is on scan page 364, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 347 to 381. Among the 100 people in the class who printed a plan, 92 (92%) named a college or university, as Lester did (“Tufts”). In the Boston Latin School class of 1927, 17 entries mention “Glee Club”; Lester's is one of them. Plans for a college or university made up 97% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1927 (92 of 95), against 98% in 1926 and 98% in 1928.

On the same scan page	Nathan Lolls Kline, James Peter Larkin, John Kendrick Lennon
Same club	Glee Club: 16 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 92 of 100 classmates with a plan (92%)
The book's own title	Latin School Register

What Lester did at school

Football Squad
Glee Club 80
Captain, 9th Company, 4th Regiment
Lieut. -Colonel, 4th Regiment
Commander, 4th Regiment in Street Parade, 1927

Fellow members from Lester's own class:

What the yearbook said

He would himself have been a soldier.

The class of 1927

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Others named Kahn

Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.

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Also came from Sarah Greenwood School

Also headed for Tufts

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Source

Boston Latin School yearbook, 1927, page 364. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item latinschoolregi1926bost_5).

Published 1927, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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