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Portrait of Margaret Sylvester Gould, Newton High School, class of 1917
As printed in the 1917 yearbook

Newton High School

Margaret Sylvester Gould

Margaret Sylvester Gould is one of 105 graduates in the class of 1917 at Newton High School, Newton, Massachusetts. The 1917 yearbook entry gives: headed for Ralph Waldo Emerson School; lived at 1206 Boylston St., Newton Upper Falls; born in 1899.

Class of 1917

105 in the class of 1917 · 60 more named Gould

Full name
Margaret Sylvester Gould
Born
June 14, 1899
Lived at
1206 Boylston St., Newton Upper Falls
School
Newton High School
Graduated
Class of 1917
Course
Classical
Headed for
Ralph Waldo Emerson School

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In context

Of the 105 names from the Newton High School class of 1917 that have pages here, Margaret is 35th in surname order. In the scan, Margaret appears on page 32, in the first third of the run of 105 portraits read for this site (pages 21 to 56). Across 16 classes of Newton High School on this site, from 1910 to 1928, 58 people are named Margaret; the class of 1925 has the most, 14. Margaret's course, Classical, is also the course of 52 others in the 105 entries that print one (50% in all). In the class of 1917, 84% of the plans we could classify (56 of 67) were a college or university; the neighbouring classes show 92% in 1916 and 81% in 1918.

On the same scan pageLawrence Breck Fisher, Harold Milton Flinn, Helen Louise Francis
Same courseClassical: 53 of 105 classmates with a course (50%)
The book's own titleNewtonian

At home, 1206 Boylston St., Newton Upper Falls

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

The 1909 Newton, Massachusetts City Directory (Sampson & Murdock) lists these people named Gould at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

  • John A Gould, civil engineer householderpage

Also grew up on Boylston St., Newton Upper Falls

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

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Also headed for Ralph Waldo Emerson School

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Source

Newton High School yearbook, 1917, page 32. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item newtonian1917newt).

Published 1917, 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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