Round Hill School

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The Round Hill School for Boys in Northampton, Massachusetts, founded by George Bancroft and Joseph Cogswell in 1823, though it failed as a viable venture— it closed in 1834— was an early effort to elevate secondary education in the United States for the sons of the New England elite. The incompatibility of the two founders was a fundamental cause of the eventual dissolution of the project.

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• Historic Northampton Reference Shelf Bibliography concerning Round Hill School.
• Bassett, John S. "The Round Hill School." American Antiquarian Society Proceedings new series 27 (1917), pp 18-62. The early experiment in education by George Bancroft and Joseph Cogswell, 1823-1834, and why it failed.