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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., The Medford High School under Lorin L. Dame (search)
ord, the Rev. Charles Brooks: As is the teacher, so is the school. Founded in 1835, the infant high school struggled for ten years under seven different masters, until it fell upon peaceful days under Mr. Charles Cummings for thirty years. Then followed almost twenty-seven years under Lorin L. Dame,—a phenomenal record of fifty-seven years under two masters. While Mr. Cummings was still teaching his small flock of less than a hundred pupils, the next master was receiving his education in Lowell and Tufts College, from which he was graduated in 1860 with an almost perfect record of scholarship. In the winter terms he had undertaken the short teaching terms then in fashion, and the old town school reports are still in existence, praising the young student teacher in Dracut and Westford. After his graduation, while studying law, he taught in Braintree and there married one of his most popular pupils. Upon this romance came the war, in which the schoolmaster and law student became l