- Russel B. Nye , George Bancroft ( New York : Washington Square Press , 1964 ), p. 45 .
- Russel B. Nye , George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel ( New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1944 ), P- 33 -
- M. A. DeWolfe Howe , The Life and Letters of George Bancroft , I, ( New York : Charles Scribner's and Sons , 1908 ), p. 63 .
- Orie W. Long , Literary Pioneers: Early- American Explorers of European Culture ( Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1935 ), p. 92 .
- Nye , Brahmin Rebel , p. 60 .
- Ibid. , p. 61 .
- Howe , George Bancroft , p. 90 .
- Ibid. , p. 128 f.
- Long , Literary Pioneers , p. 78 .
- Ibid. , p. 84 .
- Loc. cit .
- Joseph G. Cogswell and George Bancroft , Prospectus of a School to be Established at Round Hill, Massachusetts ( Cambridge , June 20, 1823 ), 9 f. See also John S. Bassett, “The Round Hill School,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Part I, 27:31 (Boston, April, 1917 ).
- Cogswell and Bancroft , Prospectus , p. 3 . See also Bassett, “Round Hill School,” p. 31 .
- Loc. cit .
- Ibid. , p. 8 .
- Bassett , “ Round Hill School ,” p. 48 .
- Joseph G. Cogswell , Outline of the System of Education at the Round Hill School with a List of the Present Instructors and of the Pupils From Its Commencement Until This Time, June-1831 ( Boston : N. Hale's Steam Power Press , 1831 ), p. 18 ff. Cogswell uses the figure of 291 boys who attended the Round Hill School, but an examination of his list reveals only 290 names. The Round Hill pupils were geographically divided as follows: New England (118) South (98) Massachusetts 99 South Carolina (34) Rhode Island 12 Maryland (32) Maine 3 Georgia (18) New Hampshire 2 Mississippi (4) Connecticut 2 Virginia (3) North Carolina (3) Middle Atlantic (55) Louisiana (3) New York 46 Tennessee (1) Pennsylvania 7 Foreign (16) Delaware 2 West Indies (5) Mexico (4) West (3) Lower Canada (3) Ohio 2 Brazil (2) Michigan 1 Transatlantic (2)
- Harriet Webster Marr , The Old New England Academies Founded Before 1826 ( New York : Comet Press Books , 1959 ), p. 138 f.
- Joseph G. Cogswell and George Bancroft , Some Account of the School for The Liberal Education of Boys, Established at Round Hill, Northampton, Massachusetts By Joseph G. Cogs well and George Bancroft ( Cambridge , March 25, 1826 ), p. 14 .
- Cogswell , Outline , p. 14 .
- Nye , George Bancroft , p. 33 .
- By 1826, the pupil's dress was as follows:
- Bassett , “ The Round Hill School ,” p. 36 .
- Cogswell and Bancroft , Some Account of the School , p. 72 . See also Marr, Old New England Academies, p. 164 .
- Long , Literary Pioneers , p. 97 .
- Horace Scudder , “A Group of Classical Schools” , Part II, Harper's New Monthly Magazine , 55 : 704 ( October , 1877 ). See also Bassett, “Round Hill School,” p. 36 .
- “ Educational Establishment of Mr. De [sic] Fellenberg, at Hofwyl” , Barnard's American Journal of Education , 3 : 591 ff. ( June , 1857 ).
- Maud Howe Elliot , Uncle Sam Ward and His Circle ( New York : Macmillan Company , 1938 )1 P- 16. See also Lately Thomas, Sam Ward, “King of the Lobby,” ( Boston : Houghton-Mifflin Company , 1965 ), p. 27 .
- Howe , Life and Letters , p. 175 .
- Marr , Old New England Academies , p.
- Susan Hale , Life and Letters of Thomas Gold Appleton ( New York : D. Appleton and Company , 1885 ), p. 25 f.
- Nye , George Bancroft , p. 41 .
- Long , Literary Pioneers , p. 145 .
- Nye , George Bancroft , p. 42 .
- Long , Literary Pioneers , p. 99 .
- John S. Bassett (ed.), “Correspondence of Jared Sparks and George Bancroft,” Smith College Studies in History , II, 2, ( Northampton , Massachusetts : Department of History, Smith College , January 1917 ), p. 96 f.
- David Tyack , George Ticknor and the Boston Brahmins ( Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1967 ), p. 102 f
- Nye , George Bancroft , p. 43 .
- Bassett , “ Round Hill School ,” p. 50 f.
- Ibid. , p. 53 .
- These men are just a few of the Round Hill graduates who distinguished themselves in business, political and intellectual life. Motley, for example, was one of our most distinguished historians as well as one of our better diplomatic representatives in Europe; Channing was one of the best known intellectual figures in Boston, a leading Transcendentalist and friend of Emerson, and others. Sam Ward was one of the most powerful financiers of the age who became a leading Washington lobbyist after losing his fortune.
- Frederick T. McGill , Channing of Concord: A Life of William Ellery Channing ( New Brunswick , New Jersey : Rutgers University Press , 1967 ), p. 5 .
- Hale , Life and Letters , p. 42 .
- Oliver W. Holmes , Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Lothrop Motley: Two Memoirs ( Boston : Houghton-Mifflin Company , 1906 ), p. 335 .
- Long , Literary Pioneers , p. 102 .
- Howe , Life and Letters , p. 180 .
- This narrow financial base was further weakened by Cogswell's liberal policy on food. One former student, for example, wrote that “the abundance, variety and excellence of the food, and the daintiness of the table service” was outstanding. Reverend Henry W. Bellows , “The Round Hill School” , The Harvard Register , 3 , 1 : 5 , ( January , 1881 ). The same point is made in Scudder's, “A Group of Classical Schools,” p. 706 .
- Nye , George Bancroft , p. 44 .
- Bassett , “ The Round Hill School ,” p. 58 .
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