program in the United States. The gym was an outdoor facility. Follen was a visitor at Round Hill, and in November 1824 proceeded to Harvard to teach German. Benjamin Peirce, Timothy Walker and Stiles French served in succession as the school's teacher of mathematics. The school was comparable to a German gymnasium. It closed in 1834 due to financial difficulties and overwork on the part of Cogswell. Alumni Edward Clifford Anderson, American Civil War general (Confederate) Thomas Gold Appleton, Boston wit and litterateur Henry W. Bellows, Unitarian clergyman, reformer Francis Boott, composer Ellery Channing, poet George Edward Ellis, Unitarian clergyman John Murray Forbes, merchant, philanthropist, founder of the modern Milton Academy George Gibbs, ethnologist, geologist and naturalist Philip Kearny, American Civil War general (Union) Robert Traill Spence Lowell, clergyman, headmaster of St. Mark's School (1869-1874) Rev. Samuel May Jr. (b. 1810), Unitariam clergyman, abolitionist, cousin of Samuel Joseph May John Lothrop Motley, historian and diplomat George W. Riggs, financier Theodore Sedgwick, law writer George Cheyne Shattuck, founder of St. Paul's School Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, mayor of Boston Samuel Cutler Ward, American lobbyist Josiah Whitney, geologist Charles Storer Storrow, prominent American civil engineer and industrialist Notes References Albert Bernhardt Faust, The German Element in the United States (2 vols.), Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909, vol. II, chap. V, pp. 214–215 at archive.org. This source describes the gymnasium as an indoor facility. 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. Cogswell, Joseph Green. 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. (Boston, 1831) External links Historic Northampton Reference Shelf Bibliography concerning Round Hill School. Boarding schools in Massachusetts Private high schools in Massachusetts Educational institutions established in 1823 Buildings and structures in Northampton, Massachusetts Schools in Hampshire County, Massachusetts