Newton High School

Percival Symonds

Printed in the 1911 yearbook as Percival Mallon Symonds

Percival Symonds (Developing educational and psychological tests) is in the 1911 yearbook of Newton High School, Newton, Massachusetts, printed there as Percival Mallon Symonds. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates and what the book says.

Class of 1911

Before they were famous

Percival Symonds Developing educational and psychological tests

Percival Symonds was an American educational psychologist. He developed several tests, including the Personality Survey and the Symonds picture-study test. He taught at the University of Hawaii and Teachers College, Columbia University. His research involved writing many books and articles on dynamic psychology.

Born: April 18, 1893, Newtonville
Died: 1960
Age in this yearbook: about 18
In the yearbook as: Percival Mallon Symonds, Newton High School, class of 1911

How we know this is the same person: Birth date printed in the book (April 18, 1893.) matches Wikidata exactly, and the name matches Percival Symonds. Summary written from the Wikipedia article (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

3 in the class of 1911 · 7 more named Symonds

Full name: Percival Mallon Symonds
Born: April 18, 1893.
Lived at: 15 Davis Ave., West Newton
School: Newton High School
Graduated: Class of 1911

Also searched as: Percival Symonds; Percival M. Symonds; Symonds, Percival.

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Neighbours 3
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Classmates 2

What the yearbook said

Class Baseball Team, 1909-10.

Also grew up on Davis Ave., West Newton

The class of 1911

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Newton High School yearbook, 1911, page 40. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item newtonian1911newt).

Published 1911, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Newton Free Library via the Internet Archive.

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