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80-568: The trail is a narrow footpath marked with blue blazes, sometimes rocky with difficult footing. It is roughly paralleled by Baldwin Drive, a paved road currently closed to motor vehicles, except for maintenance vehicles, named for New Haven native Simeon E. Baldwin , governor of Connecticut from 1911 to 1915. The trail is within the towns of New Haven, Hamden , Woodbridge , and Bethany , and entirely within West Rock Ridge State Park , but

160-557: A better system of state taxation. He was a member of that commission and drew the report. Again in 1915-17 he was chairman of a commission established by the State to revise its system of taxation. But his participation in state affairs was not merely political and legal; he was also actively associated with charitable and religious organizations. At one time or another he was a director of the General Hospital Society of Connecticut and

240-451: A coach and ate a sandwich which he had brought from home. With this frugality he combined a generosity even more marked. Part of his life was lived in the days of high hats. Such hats, when they became old, were usually donated to the missionaries. To quote from one who for many years served with Judge Baldwin on the committee of a missionary society, "He used to turn in his old high hat at the shop for fifteen cents, but he would give $ 1,500 to

320-1036: A connection to the Woodbridge trail system via the blue-yellow-blazed North Summit Trail, which intersects the Regicides, just west of Baldwin Drive near a U-shaped overlook. The North Summit Trail extends for 0.8 miles and intersects with the Bishop Estate and Darling House Trails, off Connecticut Route 69 in Woodbridge . Books – Connecticut hiking [ edit ] Books – Connecticut history and geography [ edit ] Specific to this trail: State and municipal government websites: Land trust / conservation/preservation organizations: 41°22′22″N 72°58′11″W  /  41.37278°N 72.96972°W  / 41.37278; -72.96972 Simeon E. Baldwin Simeon Eben Baldwin (February 5, 1840 – January 30, 1927)

400-599: A director of the Missionary Society of Connecticut; he served as moderator of the General Conference of Congregational Churches of Connecticut, and he was a delegate of the Congregational Churches to the national council. His scholarship and his interest in questions of the day led him into affiliations with many of the learned societies. Nor were these affiliations perfunctory only. He regularly attended

480-545: A faculty reading room. Hopkins House houses the Admission Office, Business Office, College Counselling Office, and the Technology Department. This building was named for Edward Hopkins, Hopkins' first benefactor. It was finished in 1927 with the original intention of having it become a dormitory for boarding students. The program was abandoned in the 1930s due to insufficient enrollment. The Kneisel Squash Center

560-407: A judge. Prompt and unfailing in meeting appointments, unimportant though they might be, he demanded the same consideration from others, even refusing to wait for dinner guests who might be late. Both by nature and training he was conservative, but not reactionary; his mind was open as well as active. If his plea for castration and whipping as generally applicable methods of punishing criminals savors of

640-509: A junction at the Regicides Trail, just south of Judges Cave . The trail is blazed Blue-Yellow. The Sanford Feeder follows an abandoned town road, running from Brooks Road in Bethany to its junction with the Regicides Trail near Baldwin Drive. The Sanford Feeder is 0.6 miles and is blazed Blue-Red. The Regicides Trail also connects to a series of other trails within the park that are not part of

720-487: A lawyer. In 1878, he was one of the founders of the American Bar Association and served as president of the American Bar Association from 1890 to 1891. During the middle portion of his life he was actively engaged in teaching law. Here also he showed ability. One who studied law under him and like him became chief justice of the supreme court of errors of Connecticut says that his old pupils regard his work as

800-626: A mental disorder subsequent to the demise of their daughter Florence in 1872. Her sister Charlotte assisted in the upbringing of the two remaining children, Roger and Helen, and oversaw the household. He died January 30, 1927, in New Haven. Good likenesses of Baldwin in his later years in American Bar Association Journal , February 1927, p. 73, and in Yale Alumni Weekly , February 11, 1927, p. 555; for an estimate of

880-512: A second term of two years. Both the Corrupt Practices Act and a civil service law instituting a merit system for state employees were enacted during his administration. He was Democratic candidate for United States senator from Connecticut for the term beginning March 4, 1915. Caught in a Republican landslide and defeated by incumbent Senator Frank B. Brandegee , he nevertheless ran ahead of his party ticket by several thousand votes. It

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960-525: A teacher "as more distinctive and weightier in influence upon human life than any other portion of his work. Probably in his day not a half dozen teachers of the law in our country could be placed in his class" ( American Bar Association Journal , February 1927, p. 74). From 1897 to 1910, Baldwin was a member of the Connecticut State Supreme Court, where he presided as chief justice from 1907 to 1910. For twelve years (1907–1919) he

1040-449: A trimester system, with students taking an athletic for each of the fall, winter, and spring seasons. Students may choose to participate in a team sport if they make the team, an intramural sport, or an independent sport where the student participates in a school-approved athletic activity such as martial arts lessons. Seniors may also take one season off and not take any athletic for that season. Sports offered at Hopkins vary depending on

1120-529: A wealthy telecommunications entrepreneur , has donated more than $ 25 million for new construction, the financial aid program, and forming the endowment. On March 24, 2020, it was announced that Hopkins School and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford agreed to settle a sexual abuse lawsuit involving a Catholic school teacher who was regularly allowed access to the Hopkins School and who

1200-910: Is divided into two subdepartments: the Classics, which covers Ancient Greek and Latin; and Modern Languages, which teaches four other languages ( French , Spanish , Chinese , and Italian are currently offered). The Mathematics Department offers study from pre-algebra to Linear Algebra , Multivariable Calculus , Differential Equations and Chaos Theory . The Science Department has three main tracks — Biology, Chemistry, and Physics — along which students can take entry-level courses and then more advanced AP and Honors courses. There are numerous one-off courses in subjects such as Introduction to Psychology, Human Reproduction, or Environmental Studies . The computer science department offers basic computing courses in HTML and Java . Hopkins' athletics function under

1280-407: Is done to place students at the appropriate level of instruction in mathematics and languages . Hopkins' academics are broken into departments including English , mathematics, science , history , arts , modern language, classics , and computer science . Each of the three class levels — Lower, Middle, and Upper — has a different level of choice in classes. The English Department

1360-634: Is maintained by a private organization, the Connecticut Forest and Park Association , in conjunction with the West Rock Ridge Park Association. At its southern end, the Regicides Trail terminates at the stone wall near a pavilion at the park's South Overlook, which has a panoramic view of South Central, Conn., including Sleeping Giant State Park , East Rock Park , New Haven Harbor , and the Long Island Sound . At its northern end,

1440-473: Is named for Mary Brewster Thompson, a long-time head of the Prospect Hill School. The three-story building has two floors of classrooms, as well as large studio art studios, pottery, photography, wood shop, and choral and orchestral spaces. This building houses the advisories for the seventh and eighth grades. Applicants to Hopkins undergo a series of standardized tests, and upon matriculation , testing

1520-806: Is the only department in which Hopkins requires a student have at least one class in every semester. Upper-class students have two required semester classes: a college-prep writing course and a Shakespeare -centered course. The History Department core is the Atlantic Communities series that focuses on Europe, the Americas, and West Africa between 1450 and modern times. In addition, elective courses go into detail on subjects such as political science, regional studies, philosophy and religion. Advanced Placement courses are offered in United States History, European History, and Human Geography. The Language Department

1600-574: The New York and New England Railroad , and by the mid-1880s, he was a leading railroad and business attorney. In addition to his work as lawyer and teacher he took an active part in the public affairs of New Haven. He served on the Public Parks commission, on the New Haven common council, and on the board of directors of the New Haven Hospital. Deeply interested in religious work, he was president of

1680-760: The Archaeological Institute of America (1914). He was vice-president of the Archaeological Institute of America (1898) and of the social and economic science section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903). He was an associate of the Institute of International Law. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1912. He was a member also of

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1760-995: The Blue-Blazed system. These trails include the Red Trail that creates a trail loop within the park; the Green Trail, connecting down to the park's main entrance on Wintergreen Avenue; the Orange Trail, connecting to the south end of Lake Wintergreen; the Blue-White Trail, connecting to the northern end of Lake Wintergreen; the Purple Trail, connecting to Main Street in Hamden, and the Yellow Trail, connecting to Mountain Road in Hamden. The Regicides Trail has

1840-641: The British in July 1779 during their invasion of New Haven, and former schoolmaster Noah Williston was captured. Although the school remained open, records seem to indicate that it was frequently closed between September 1780 and October 1781, "for vacation". Shortly after the Revolution, Hopkins hired Jared Mansfield for two terms (1786–1790 and 1790–1795) to the unique position "Master of the Grammar School" to try to stabilize

1920-472: The Connecticut legislature (1911) passed a law regulating the use of flying machines, the first law to be enacted on this subject. France shortly afterward modeled her law on that of Connecticut. In 1911 he had two articles on airship law in foreign journals ( Revue de l'Institut de Droit Comparé and Zeitschrift für Völkerrecht und Bundesstaatsrecht ). Notwithstanding his work in many fields, his real interest

2000-495: The Green that took up nearly an entire block . Teachers were offered two-year contracts to teach at Hopkins, but rarely kept them. Hopkins boys grew "unruly and malicious", some roaming New Haven streets at night. In 1838 the school moved once again, as the trustees believed that moving the school away from the town center would allow its students to focus more on their studies. Throughout August and September that year, they rushed through

2080-585: The Hopkins Fund began releasing £ 12–£15 annually to run elementary English schools in East Haven and West Haven . New Haven stopped donating money to the Fund in 1719, which made hiring schoolmasters nearly impossible. Though the trustees of the Hopkins Fund constituted an independent body, the town was known to control them with financial pressures. Richard Mansfield served as schoolmaster from 1742 to 1747, and

2160-530: The Hopkins Fund often fell short in paying them. This forced the school to take up collections to meet its payroll. Consequently, there was great turnover in schoolmasters, some staying for no more than a year. Also contributing to the problem was the establishment of the Collegiate School in New Haven in 1701, which drew many local academics away from Hopkins, and which later became Yale University . Public opinion of Hopkins and academia in general weakened

2240-645: The Law (1919). He was a most prolific writer of articles and pamphlets. Some ten years before his death he collected and presented to the Yale Law School nearly a hundred of these in four bound volumes which he entitled in order of numbering: Law and Law Reform, Studies in History, International and Constitutional Law, and Studies in Legal Education and Social Sciences. While these titles very aptly classify his literary output

2320-787: The National Institute of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society , elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1893, and a corresponding member of the Massachusetts Historical Society , Colonial Society of Massachusetts , and L'Institut de Droit Comparé. Baldwin was among the incorporators of Connecticut College at its founding in 1911, and he served on its board of trustees through 1924. His connections with national and international matters touching law and its ramifications were not restricted to membership in learned societies. In 1899 he

2400-697: The New Haven Congregational Club and of the YMCA . From 1884 until 1896 he was president of the New Haven Colony Historical Society , for which he wrote many papers mostly on subjects of history. Even more diversified than his activities in local affairs was his participation in those that concerned the state as a whole. Never a politician, and to the end of his days allowing such honors and offices as came to him to come unsought and unfought for, he nevertheless early became identified with

2480-579: The Regicides Trail connects with the Quinnipiac Trail . Both trails are part of the state's system of " Blue-Blazed Trails " totaling more than 800 miles (1,300 km). There are two connecting Blue-Blazed Trails to the Regicides Trail. The Westville Feeder, which starts at a footbridge over the West River off Blake Street in the Westville section of New Haven and extends for 0.7 miles, terminating with

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2560-645: The United States Congress Hopkins Grammar School Hopkins School is a private , college-preparatory , coeducational , day school for grades 7–12 located in New Haven, Connecticut . In 1660, Edward Hopkins, seven-time governor of the Connecticut Colony, bequeathed a portion of his estate to found schools dedicated to "the breeding up of hopeful youths." With a portion of the bequest, Hopkins Grammar School

2640-411: The affairs of that school was to continue for just fifty years, for it was not until 1919 that he retired as professor emeritus. The revival of the law school was largely his work. He increased the size of the faculty, instituted new courses, developed graduate work, and for a long time carried much of the financial responsibility for the school's existence ( Yale Law Journal , March 1927, p. 680). It

2720-596: The archaic ( Yale Law Journal , June 1899), he was capable also of starting nationwide comment, as on the radically new ideas embodied in his "The Natural Right to a Natural Death" ( Journal of Social Science , 1889). In January 1910 he published "The Law of the Airship" ( American Journal of International Law ), and in November "Liability for Accidents in Aerial Navigation" (Michigan Law Review, IX, 20). At his suggestion

2800-697: The class of 1861, Yale College , published by the class secretary, especially those for the years 1888, 1903, 1907, 1916. His legal bibliography, fairly complete through 1901, was printed in Yale Law Journal , November 1901, pp. 14–16. His opinions and decisions written while he was on the bench will be found in Conn. Reports, volumes LXIII-LXXXIII. For the facts in regard to his controversy with Roosevelt, see Outlook, volume XCVII, Jan. 1911, pp. 240–244. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of

2880-426: The committee for missions." He was unyielding where a principle was involved; but in matters of mere policy he had the remarkable ability, once he was outvoted, to make the policy of the majority his own even though he had strenuously opposed it. Quiet and unassuming in manner he could be aggressive when he deemed it necessary, as he did in his controversy with Roosevelt when the latter dared to ridicule his ability as

2960-482: The curriculum by adding more English classes, and school attendance saw a rapid increase once again. Whiton taught for ten years and under his leadership, enrollment climbed to more than 100 students, thus marking the end of "the fallow years." Headmaster George Lovell convinced the Board of Trustees to buy land on the western edge of New Haven for a new campus atop a hill in 1925. Graduate Henry Murphy laid out plans for

3040-915: The delegates to represent the United States, he was elected vice-president of the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists held in connection with the St. Louis Exposition of that year. His writings cover a number of fields. Among his more pretentious works are: A Digest of All the Reported Cases... of Conn. (2 vols., 1871, 1882), The historic policy of the United States as to annexation. (New Haven: Hoggson & Robinson, 1893), Cases on Railroad Law (1896), Modern Political Institutions (1898), American Railroad Law (1904), The American Judiciary (1905), The Relations of Education to Citizenship (1912), Life and Letters of Simeon Baldwin (1919), The Young Man and

3120-407: The education laws. Six years later he was named by the governor of Connecticut acting under a resolution of the state legislature one of a commission of five to inquire into the feasibility of simplifying legal procedure. This commission drew up a set of rules and forms which were approved and adopted by the court as the basis of pleading in civil cases. In 1886 a commission was appointed to report on

3200-403: The financial emoluments that usually accompany success at the bar. He was keenly alive to the practical side of the lawyer's work and never lost his zest for it. Till almost the very end of his life he maintained a law office, which he visited daily as long as his health would permit, and kept adding to his law library. As late as 1919 his book The Young Man and the Law revealed him still at heart

3280-532: The founding of the school, he delivered a discourse on its history; when shortly before his death it became necessary to house the school in new quarters, he was one of the largest, if not the largest, of the individual donors whose contributions made possible a set of modern buildings for what he was fond of referring to as the fourth oldest institution of learning in the United States. From the Hopkins Grammar School he went to Yale College , from which he

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3360-434: The line of short-termed schoolmasters as he held the position for ten years. Although Olmstead thought much like Hopkins' early masters, namely that the school existed to prepare boys for college, he also modernized the curriculum in several ways. Most notably, English was finally added to the curriculum, and he began keeping accurate school rolls which solidified his final legacy, increasing the size of Hopkins' student body. By

3440-527: The man and his achievements see the articles accompanying these and also Yale Law Journal , March 1927, p. 680; New Haven Journal-Courier , Hartford Times , Hartford Courant , January 31, February 1, 2, 1927; Who's Who in America, 1899–1927 . There is a complete list of his writings in Yale University Library ; partial lists, together with considerable biog. material, are given in the records of

3520-460: The necessary transactions to buy the new plot of land, currently the site of the Yale Law School . Following this move the trustees released an announcement to New Haven's three newspapers summarizing their hope that this new location would provide sufficient space for the boys to learn and be separate enough that they could do so in peace. Hawley Olmstead became headmaster in 1839 and ended

3600-545: The new campus in 1922, and designed the original Baldwin Hall building in 1925. The school opened at the new premises, the present campus, in 1926. Baldwin Hall was initially the only building, but the campus expanded greatly over the next century. Hopkins had begun to refer to itself without "Grammar School" in the casual name by 1935, but "Grammar School" was not officially dropped until several years after Hopkins' merger with Day Prospect Hill School in 1972. Day Prospect Hill School

3680-489: The police in connection to a different accusation. It was also reported that reports of sexual abuse at Hopkins dated as far back as 1970. Baldwin Hall is the original building of the present campus. It has four floors, including the basement. It houses a computer lab, the language lab, and the Calarco Library. The library is a two floor, 14,000-square-foot (1,300 m ) space with group study rooms, an art gallery, and

3760-460: The political life of his state. Starting as a Republican, he was nominated for state senator from the fourth district in 1867, but was not elected. In 1884 he was one of the "independents" who refused to support James G. Blaine , and was chosen president of the Republican organization in Connecticut. The greatest of his political honors came to him when he was an old man. Automatically retired from

3840-582: The position of chief justice of the supreme court, February 5, 1910, because he had reached the age limit of seventy years, he that year was nominated for governor on the Democratic ticket and was elected the governor of Connecticut. In June 1912, at the Democratic National Convention he received twenty votes for the presidential nomination. In November of the same year he was elected the governor of Connecticut, nominally strongly Republican, for

3920-461: The result of a fall confined him to his home. His personality, externally at least, was cold, dignified, and grave. Some of those who knew him best say that he was in reality warm-hearted but the characteristics that made an impression on every one were his reserve and his austerity; in general he was an object of respect rather than of affection; he had none of the weaknesses that make men lovable. As deeply religious as any of his Puritan ancestors, he

4000-413: The school for the future. Between Mansfield's two terms, Abraham Bishop held a six-month term as headmaster during which he proposed radical reform, including making Hopkins coeducational, most of which never came to fruition. After the end of Mansfield's second term, the school returned to the pattern of short tenures for schoolmasters. Hopkins moved buildings again in 1803 to an even larger facility near

4080-410: The school in the first half of the 20th century. It was constructed in 1960 with funds raised during the school's tercentenary. It is currently going under renovation, and will be replaced with a new Performing Arts Center in 2024. Malone Science Center is at the center of campus and houses the science classrooms and labs . Donated by John C. Malone , it is named for Malone's father, Daniel Malone. It

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4160-456: The school's founding. Finally, on June 4 (June 14 on modern calendars) Davenport transferred control of the bequest to the colony, on the condition that the colony accept responsibility for the support of the school. "The Fallow Years" is a term coined by Thomas B. Davis in his history, Chronicles of Hopkins Grammar School , to describe the period from 1696 to 1853. During this time the school had difficulty finding qualified schoolmasters , and

4240-400: The school. During this time parents wanted children who could read and write English and understand basic arithmetic , but Hopkins continued to focus on subjects that parents deemed irrelevant, such as Latin. Parents were also displeased with schoolmasters who paid little attention to struggling students, instead focusing only on the scholars. On January 12, 1713, the committee which managed

4320-667: The season and include cross country , soccer , water polo , downhill skiing , crew , football , field hockey , volleyball , basketball , fencing , track (both outdoor and indoor), swimming / diving , wrestling , squash , golf , lacrosse , tennis , baseball , and softball . Hopkins is a member of the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council and the Fairchester Athletic Association. Hopkins competes with many other private and boarding schools throughout New England and

4400-571: The society meetings, wrote papers for them, and rose to the highest places in their councils. He was president of the American Social Science Association (1897), International Law Association (1899), American Historical Association (1905), Political Science Association (1910), American Society for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes (1911), Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences , Connecticut Society of

4480-504: The time Olmstead resigned due to poor health on July 28, 1849, school attendance had risen to 63 students. As soon as Olmstead left, the school began to deteriorate once again, with attendance dropping to 45 students in 1850 and to 20 by 1853. The recently founded debate society disbanded, with seven young members forming the secret society known as "The Club". Though this club grew no larger and tried to remain quiet, parents grew so annoyed with this supposedly "rough-housing" club that it

4560-476: The volumes themselves do not contain all his miscellaneous publications. He was not above medium height, somewhat slight of figure and seemingly frail in physique, though this frailty was in appearance only as he was a man of tremendous, tireless energy. Although in no sense athletic, he made some sort of exercise in the open air each day almost a religious duty. At one time this took the form of bicycle rides, though he soon gave these up in favor of walking. His rule

4640-403: Was Roger Sherman, a signatory to the Declaration of Independence . His father had served from 1844 to 1846 as the governor of Connecticut. As a boy he attended the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, Connecticut . Active in all its alumni work, he was, more specifically, for many years president of its board of trustees; in 1910, on the occasion of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of

4720-426: Was a building on the New Haven Green . Hopkins died in 1657 and bequeathed money to found a school dedicated to "the breeding up of hopeful youths for the public service of the country in future times." Colonial officials wanted Hopkins's bequest to remain in Connecticut and appointed three men, Davenport and two others, as executors of Hopkins's will. They created the Hopkins Fund, from which Hopkins Grammar School

4800-415: Was accused of sexually abusing boys while coaching at the school between at least 1990 and 1991. Both Hopkins and the Archdiocese of Hartford were accused of covering up the sex abuse and shielding the teacher from potential prosecution. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. The accused teacher, Glenn Goncalo, committed suicide in 1991 as arrangements were being made for him to turn himself over to

4880-423: Was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law. His seventeen years of service as an associate justice and chief justice of the supreme court of Connecticute state and his four years as governor in the latter part of his life, may have obscured for his later contemporaries the fact that he was also a successful lawyer. In the practice of the law he won distinction both in his own state and outside, and with it

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4960-483: Was always in modern law. He has been called an antiquarian, but his studies in this line did not go beyond colonial history, more particularly Connecticut history. Few men have played a more important part in so many activities that concerned their own community. When he was presented for the degree of LL.D. at the Yale Commencement in 1916 he was called, inter alia, "the first citizen of Connecticut." No designation could have fitted him better. ―George Edward Woodbine He

5040-419: Was an American jurist, law professor, and politician who served as the 65th governor of Connecticut . The son of jurist, Connecticut governor and U.S. Senator Roger Sherman Baldwin and Emily Pitkin Perkins , Baldwin was born and lived for much of his life in New Haven, Connecticut , and was one of nine children. Among his ancestors were the initial five governors of the Connecticut Colony . Another ancestor

5120-405: Was anything unusual about this young student who had among his classroom contemporaries the poet Edward Rowland Sill , and two others who like himself were later to have much to do with the life of the university, his friends Tracy Peck and Franklin Bowditch Dexter . For the two years following his graduation from college he studied law at Yale, at Harvard , and in his father's office. In 1863 he

5200-492: Was appointed by the State Department a delegate from the United States to the Sixth International Prison Congress, which met the next year at Brussels. Again in 1905 he was United States delegate to a similar congress held at Budapest and was made its vice-president. At this congress he presented his report on the question "By what principles and in what manner may convicts be given work in the fields, or other public work in open air?" In 1904, appointed by President Roosevelt one of

5280-585: Was characteristic of him that when shortly before his retirement the method of teaching was changed to the so-called "case system," to which Judge Baldwin, like most of his contemporaries, objected, he never for an instant changed his attitude of loyalty to the school, which some years later was to be most generously remembered in his will. Following four years of research, he released Baldwin's Connecticut Digest in 1871, which supported Connecticut attorneys with their research and also brought clients to his own legal practice. The same year, he became legal counsel to

5360-412: Was established in 1660. The exact date of Hopkins School's founding is a matter of definition. The historical record of the executors' report implies the trust was created on May 4, 1660, but since the Julian calendar was in use then, the date corresponds to May 14 on modern calendars. The papers which created the fund were presented and accepted on May 30, and many use this date as the official date of

5440-418: Was forced to disband in 1851. After the debate society and "The Club" were gone, many students sought out new ways to express their literary interests, including founding the school newspaper , The Critic . Olmstead was seen by the trustees as a major failure and a cause of the school's rapid decline, and was quickly replaced by James Morris Whiton , who had just recently graduated from Yale. He further revised

5520-400: Was founded in a one-room building on the New Haven Green. The school relocated to its current campus in 1926. Hopkins has been coeducational since merging with Day Prospect Hill School in 1972. John Davenport , a founder of the New Haven Colony , was an early proponent of education in the colony. Grammar schools of the time generally prepared young men for college, but the Puritan colony

5600-493: Was graduated with the class of 1861. There is scant information as to his four years at college. During that period he kept a diary from which he read extracts on the fifty-fifth reunion of his class, but this diary is not at present available. That the studious traits which he later manifested were not altogether lacking at this time may be inferred from the fact that he was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Skull & Bones . Such records as we have do not indicate that there

5680-424: Was inevitable that the high regard in which he was held as a lawyer should lead to his being named on various state commissions of reform. In 1872, less than a decade after he began to practice law, the Connecticut legislature elected him one of a commission of five that made the Revision of 1875, the General Statutes of the State of Connecticut. In the same year he was a member of a state commission appointed to revise

5760-609: Was itself the product of a merger between two local women's schools — the Day School (founded in 1907) and the Prospect Hill School (founded in 1930). The combined institution became the Day Prospect Hill School (DPH), a united women's education school. Trustee president Vince Calarco and headmaster Tim Rodd led Hopkins to buy a further 50 acres (20  ha ) of land at its current location to establish playing fields in 1992. In recent years alumnus John C. Malone ,

5840-422: Was most broadly tolerant of the beliefs of others. His conception of civic duty was Roman, but he was ever willing to oppose even the State in defending what he regarded as the constitutional and legal rights of the individual. He was frugal to such a degree that on one occasion when traveling as governor with his staff, instead of partaking of a sumptuous dinner in a dining car specially provided for them, he rode in

5920-456: Was opened for students in 1999 and has three floors of classrooms and labs. Heath Commons is a two-story building that houses the school dining hall and a student lounge. Heath Commons was designed by the S/L/A/M collaborative. It was completed in 2003 and won a Connecticut Design Award in 2005. Thompson Hall was opened on 30 November 2009 on the former site of one of the upper playing fields. It

6000-622: Was originally built as an all-purpose gym in 1935 and named the Reigeluth Gym in honor of a trustee. It was designed by the architect Douglas Orr . In 2010, it was converted into a squash center, housing six squash courts. Lovell Hall held the Townshend Auditorium, drama and video production classrooms, two multipurpose classrooms, the Razor 's office, and teachers' offices. The building was named after longtime headmaster George Lovell, who led

6080-488: Was the director of the American Bar Association 's Comparative Law Bureau (as well as its Annual Bulletin ' s editor for general jurisprudence). To the same effect may be interpreted the action of the Association of American Law Schools , which in 1902 elected him its president. In 1869 he was appointed as a professor of law to the faculty of the Yale Law School , then in a moribund condition. His active participation in

6160-476: Was the last headmaster until 1839 to serve for more than three years. Although Hopkins School was still somewhat unpopular with the locals, the school moved to a new larger brick building on the Green, due to the growth of New Haven. Hopkins School was somewhat rare among American schools in that it remained open during the American Revolutionary War . Former schoolmaster John Hotchkiss was killed by

6240-488: Was the son of Roger Sherman Baldwin , brotherin-law of Dwight Foster (1828–1884) , uncle of Edward Baldwin Whitney , grandson of Simeon Baldwin , and the great-grandson of Roger Sherman . On 19 October 1865 he married Susan Mears Winchester, daughter of Edmund Winchester and Harriet Mears. Simeon and Susan had three children: Florence, Roger and Helen. In 1873, Susan was admitted to a mental health institution after developing

6320-421: Was to cover at least four miles a day, rain or shine, and there was no part of the less congested portions of New Haven and its environs over which he had not many times traveled as he walked unhurriedly alone, stooping somewhat, buried in thought, compelled by poor eyesight to keep his gaze fixed upon his path a few feet ahead of him. This methodical exercise he kept up until, in his last years, injuries received as

6400-538: Was too far from England for its citizens to attend the existing English schools. Parents of the time were generally more concerned with spending their money on essentials such as food, and viewed formal education as an extravagance most could not afford. Davenport enlisted the help of a friend, Edward Hopkins , governor of the Connecticut Colony , to found a traditional grammar school that would teach Latin , Greek , and Hebrew grammar. The school's first home

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