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| | Alumni Association of Hopkins Academy, Hadley, Massachusetts: Page |
 | | Hopkins Academy's history is closely related to the history of the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, Connecticut, and to a lesser degree it is associated with the history of the Cambridge Latin School in Massachusetts and the Public High School in Hartford, Connecticut. |
 | | Hopkins Academy exists today because of the wisdom, foresight, and benevolence of a seventeenth century London merchant who never saw Hadley, never knew of its existence, and who died in 1657, two years before the town of Hadley, Massachusetts, was founded. |
 | | Chronologically, Hopkins Academy is the fifth oldest school in continuous existence in Massachusetts, the seventh oldest in New England, and it may well rank among the first ten in the entire United States. |
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