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William (left) embraces his American pen pal, Will (right).

United at last: Will Benjamin ’25 meets pen pal of nine years in Malawi

Yancheng Zhao, Contributing Writer September 6, 2023

With the rapid rise of digital communication, hand- written letters may seem antiquated. Will Benjamin ’25 disagrees. He has spent nine years forging a friendship with his 16-year-old pen pal, William...

Wildfires burn in Canada.

Climate change strikes throughout the summer

Kate Rice, Sports Editor September 6, 2023

Record-breaking temperatures and raging wildfires are just two of the ways the burning of fossil fuels and other human activity have damaged the planet this summer. A heightened concern in recent years,...

Seniors follow passions during SSP

Seniors follow passions during SSP

Gabe Cooper, Contributing Writer June 6, 2023

For her Senior Spring Project (SSP), Katie Baker ’23 volunteered at Spruce Street, a nursery school for children ages 2-5 she herself attended, and interned at Locke Lord Law Firm, where she conducted...

It’s no trivial matter: Trivia team wins state championship

It’s no trivial matter: Trivia team wins state championship

Rahdin Salehian and Alexandra Kluzak June 6, 2023

“This is still very close for the state championship, everybody,” Billy Costa, host of High School Quiz Show, told the school’s team, Mansfield High School's team, and the live audience at Great...

Aleeza Riaz ’25 (left) leads a Q&A with Mayor Sumbal Siddiqui (right).

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui headlines school’s first Iftar celebration

Beckett Dubovik, Features Editor April 29, 2023

“I hope as we share our meal together this evening, we all reflect on the ways that we are working together in our communities to address injustice,” City of Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui said as...

In defense of the ‘boring’ story

Nnema Epee-Bounya, Media Maven April 29, 2023

I have always gravitated toward character-driven stories— worlds in which the cast is so complex and compelling that it makes you want to travel to their alternate universe and yell at them for their...

Keegan fellows: Emilia Khoury ’25 (left) and Alexandra Kluzak ’24 (right).

Kluzak and Khoury named Keegan fellows

Kate Rice, Sports Editor April 29, 2023

Fifteen years since Marina Keegan’s class of 2008 graduated, and 10 years since the Marina Keegan ’08 Summer Fellowship’s creation in 2013, students continue to take advantage of the opportunity...

Aaron, Chloe, and Graham stand outside the World Debate Championship in South Africa.

Debaters bring home hardware from World Championship

Will Benjamin, Contributing Writer April 29, 2023

More than eight thousand miles away in Durban, South Africa, Graham Bateman ’23, Chloe Taft ’25, and Aaron Rai ’24 competed as part of a U.S. delegation against teams from 70 countries in the World...

Silicon Valley Bank

April 29, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a state-chartered commercial bank based in Santa Clara, California, declared bankruptcy on March 10. SVB was the 16th largest bank in the United States, holding $209 billion...

Battle of the Summer Jobs: Lifeguarding vs. App development

Battle of the Summer Jobs: Lifeguarding vs. App development

Alexandra Kluzak and Darius Sinha September 8, 2022

Lifeguarding Children swimming, people lounging by the side of the pool, and a summer breeze characterize the setting of Emma Maginn and Sara Berz’s (both ’23) summer job as lifeguards at the Mason...

Lower School renovation aims for multi-purposed spaces

Lower School renovation aims for multi-purposed spaces

Emilia Khoury, Staff Writer September 8, 2022

By 2025, Lower School (LS) students will attend assemblies in the new Meeting House, learn in the larger, high-tech classrooms in the modernized Brick Building filled with interactive areas beyond desks...

Travel grants return to fund faculty and staff’s summer journeys

Travel grants return to fund faculty and staff’s summer journeys

Ford Legg, Editor-in-Chief September 8, 2022

This summer, English teacher Sharon Krauss strolled around Courthouse Square in Oxford, Mississippi like characters in William Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury,” one of the novels in her new English...

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