The Beaverbrook Tradition Continues for RL’s Youngest Students On September 10, 43 new Sixies—along with intrepid Class I leaders and faculty chaperones— trekked to Beaverbrook in Hollis, New Hampshire, for a tradition that dates back nearly 60 years.
Upon arriving, Class VI boys were immediately met with their first challenge: a test of their knowledge of “the oldest school in continuous existence in North America.” Charged with successfully separating Roxbury Latin fact from fiction and producing the most correct answers in the questionnaire, Sixies face an uphill battle: Those well-versed seniors and teachers may purposefully throw them off track with bogus answers, allowing for the single time all year when our watchwords “honesty is expected in all dealings'' go out the window.
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