Dixwell School

Dixwell's Private Latin School, also known as the Dixwell School and later renamed Hopkinson School and Legate's Private Classical School, was a college-preparatory school in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, which operated from 1851 to roughly 1937. It was one of America's first modern private day schools. During its heyday in the second half of the nineteenth century, Dixwell's was one of Harvard College's most important feeder schools. Its rise paralleled Harvard's transition from a training ground for clergymen to a socially elite institution primarily patronized by the sons of wealthy businessmen.

Dixwell's was closely associated with the Boston Brahmin elite. It trained many notable alumni, including Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Secretary of State Robert Bacon, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Sr., Massachusetts Governor Roger Wolcott, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Henry Adams.

The school's alumni made significant contributions to the development of tennis and American football. In 1876, Dixwell men organized and hosted the first American lawn tennis tournament. The school produced many of the sport's first American stars, including Richard Dudley Sears, Malcolm Whitman, and James Dwight. Dixwell students were the primary force behind the Oneida Football Club, the first organized American football team. Other athletes include two-time Olympic gold medalist Ellery Harding Clark and 1920 America's Cup-winning skipper Charles Francis Adams III.