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Boston College High School (also known as BC High) is an all-male, Jesuit, Catholic college-preparatory day school in the Columbia Point neighborhood of Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts. It educates approximately 1,400 students in grades 7–12. Founded in 1863 as a constituent part of Boston College, the school separated from the college in 1927.
The larger towns in New England opened grammar schools, the forerunner of the modern high school. [6] The most famous was the Boston Latin School, which is still in operation as a public high school. Hopkins School in New Haven, Connecticut was another. By the 1780s, most had been replaced by private academies.
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission, it became an independent statutory corporation in January 1963, when it was formally renamed the British Railways Board.
Boston Chronicle begins publication. [118] 1916 November 7: Summer Street Bridge disaster. [119] Quong Kow Chinese School founded. [120] Massachusetts Institute of Technology relocates from Boston to Cambridge. 1917 – Boston School for Secretaries established. [121] 1918; Colonel Logan (second from left) and staff, on the way to the Western ...
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Boston College was founded through the efforts of the first Jesuit community in New England, which was established at St. Mary's Church in Boston in 1849. [16] Jesuit priest John McElroy maintained the vision for what became BC, recognizing the need for an educational institution for the Irish Catholic immigrant population. [17]
The emerging American financial system was based on railroad bonds. Boston was the first center, but New York by 1860 was the dominant financial market. The British invested heavily in railroads around the world, but nowhere more so than the United States; The total came to about $3 billion by 1914. [115]
The Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway Act 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. ccxxiii) obtained royal assent on 20 August 1853. [note 1] It would start from Boston South Junction (later Boston, Sleaford Junction) on the East Lincolnshire Railway (opened 1848, and leased to the Great Northern Railway