Newton High School

William Lloyd Prosser

William Lloyd Prosser appears in the 1914 yearbook of Newton High School in Newton, MA, listed at 40 Harvard St., Newton. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1914

Before they were famous

William Lloyd Prosser legal scholarship and tort law

William Lloyd Prosser served in the United States Marine Corps and later worked as a guard at the US Embassy in Brussels. He earned a law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School and subsequently became a professor there. Prosser later served as Dean of the School of Law at UC Berkeley from 1948 to 1961. He is known for authoring a widely used legal work called *Prosser on Torts*, which is now known as *Prosser and Keeton on Torts*.

Born: March 15, 1898, New Albany
Died: 1972
Age in this yearbook: about 16
In the yearbook as: William Lloyd Prosser, Newton High School, class of 1914

How we know this is the same person: Birth date printed in the book (March 15, 1898.) matches Wikidata exactly, and the name matches William Lloyd Prosser. Summary written from the Wikipedia article (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

119 in the class of 1914 · 1 more named Prosser

Full name: William Lloyd Prosser
Born: March 15, 1898.
Lived at: 40 Harvard St., Newton
School: Newton High School
Graduated: Class of 1914
Course: Classical
Headed for: Columbia University

Also searched as: Bill Prosser; William Prosser; William L. Prosser; Billy Prosser.

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Classmates 118

In context

Of the 119 names from the Newton High School class of 1914 that have pages here, William is 87th in surname order. William is printed on page 45 of the scan, in the last third of the 21-to-53 run of portrait pages. Of the 119 entries in the class with a course, 75 (63%) say Classical, William's among them. William's plan is printed as “Columbia University”, which counts here as a college or university; 58 of the 79 classmates who named a plan (73%) named the same kind. Against 108 for 1913 and 147 for 1915, the class of 1914 comes to 119 names on this site.

On the same scan page	Mortimer Morris Prescott, George Hale Pulsifer, Elinor Putnam
Same kind of plan	college or university: 58 of 79 classmates with a plan (73%)
Same course	Classical: 75 of 119 classmates with a course (63%)

What the yearbook said

Debating, 1913, 1914. English Club, 1912-13-14. Deutscher Verein, 1912-13-14. Secretary Deutscher Verein, 191 1. Debating Club, 1912-13-14. Senior Play, 1914. Assistant Editor "Review," 1913. Editor-in-Chief "Review," 1914. Author of Senior Play, 1914.

The class of 1914

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Newton High School yearbook, 1914, page 45. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item newtonian1914newt).

Published 1914, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Newton Free Library via the Internet Archive.

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