Hopkins Classical School

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| established = 1839

| closed = 1854

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The Hopkins Classical School (1839–1854) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was a secondary school located near the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Dana Street.{{Citation

|location = Cambridge, Mass

|author = Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution, Hannah Winthrop chapter, Cambridge.

|title = An historic guide to Cambridge

|date = 1907

|oclc = 3292475

|ol = 6981640M

}} It received financial support from the bequest of Edward Hopkins.History of the Hopkins fund, grammar school and academy, in Hadley, Mass. The Amherst record press, 1890Charles Pickering Bowditch. [https://books.google.com/books?id=AzcWAAAAYAAJ An account of the trust administered by the trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins]. University Press, 1889Harvard Univ. [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:hua4701 Records of the Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins, 1700-1983].

Notable staff

Staff included John Benjamin Henck.Lamb's biographical dictionary of the United States. 1901

Alumni

Students included George Martin Lane,Goodwin. Memoir of George Martin Lane. Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1899 William C. Lovering, James Mills Peirce,National cyclopedia of American biography. 1910 George D. Robinson,Political register and congressional directory: a statistical record of the federal officials, legislative, executive, and judicial, of the United States of America, 1776-1878. Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878 and William Robert Ware.Universities and their sons. R. Herndon company, 1899

See also

References