powers of the mind into operation, nor to qualifying a youth to
fill, usefully and respectably, many of those stations,- both
public and private, in which he may be placed. A parent who
wishes to give a child an education that shall fit him for
active life, and shall serve as a foundation for eminence in his
profession, whether mercantile or mechanical, is under the
necessity of giving him a different education from any which our
public schools can now furnish. Hence, many children are
separated from their parents and sent to private academies in
this vicinity to acquire that instruction which can not be
obtained at the public seminaries." The school more than
fulfilled the hopes of its projectors, and is to-day one of the
"model" schools of the United States. The Girls' Latin and High
School, formerly in its own building at West Newton and Pembroke
streets, now occupies what was formerly the Chauncy Hall School,
on Boylston Street. The Girls' High School was established in
1855, in connection with the Normal