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{{Short description|Prep school in Dedham, Massachusetts, US}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox school
| name = Noble and Greenough School
| logo =
| image = Noble and Greenough School Seal.jpg
| image_size =
| motto = Spes Sibi Quisque<br/>—[[Virgil]] in the ''[[Aeneid]]''
| motto_translation = "Each person finds hope within himself or herself."<ref>{{cite news|title=With the Help of Others|url=http://blogs.nobles.edu/reflections/2013/09/12/with-the-help-of-others/|publisher=blog.nobles.edu|date=September 12, 2013}}</ref>
| established = {{Start date and age|1866}}
| founder = George Washington Copp Noble
| headmistress = Catherine J. Hall
| streetaddress = 10 Campus Drive
| city = [[Dedham, Massachusetts|Dedham]]
| state = [[Massachusetts]]
| zipcode = 02026
| country = United States
| campus_type = [[Suburb]]an
| type = [[Private school|Private]], [[Day school|day]] & [[Boarding school|boarding]], [[University-preparatory school|college-prep]]
| faculty = 134
| students = 631
| grades = [[Seventh grade|7]]–[[Twelfth grade|12]]
| newspaper = The Nobleman
| annual_tuition = $62,600 For Day Students $68,600 For 5-Day Boarding
| mascot = Bulldog
| conference = [[Independent School League (New England)|Independent School League]]
| colors = Navy and white {{colorbox|navy}} {{colorbox|white}}
| website = {{URL|www.nobles.edu|nobles.edu}}
}}
The '''Noble and Greenough School''', commonly known as '''Nobles''', is a [[coeducation]]al, [[nonsectarian]] day and five-day boarding school in [[Dedham, Massachusetts]], a suburb of [[Boston]]. It educates 638 boys and girls in grades 7–12. The school's {{convert|187|acre|km2|adj=on}} campus borders the [[Charles River]].<ref name=glance>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nobles.edu/about-nobles/nobles-at-a-glance.cfm|title=At a Glance}}</ref>
==History==
=== Founding and move to Dedham ===
In 1866, [[Washington University in St. Louis]] Latin professor George Washington Copp Noble returned to Boston and founded '''Noble's Classical School''' as an all-boys college-preparatory school.<ref name=":10">{{Cite journal |date=Winter 2016 |title=150 Years of Nobles History |url=https://issuu.com/nobleandgreenoughschool/docs/nobles_winter_2016 |journal=Nobles Magazine |pages=27 |via=Issuu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-sUnAAAAYAAJ |title=Report of the Class of 1858 of Harvard College |publisher=Alfred Mudge & Son |year=1888 |___location=Boston, MA |pages=56}}</ref> He renamed the school to '''Noble & Greenough School''' in 1892, when his son-in-law James Greenough joined the faculty.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://www.nobles.edu/about/history/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=Noble & Greenough School |language=en-US}}</ref> The school was originally a for-profit entity run by the Noble family, but in 1913, after Greenough's death, a coalition of Nobles alumni purchased the school from Noble and reorganized the school as a nonprofit corporation under the control of a board of trustees.<ref>"150 Years," p. 32.</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL418Zek6os |title=A Legacy of Leadership - Nobles' Sesquicentennial Celebration |language=en |access-date=2024-04-19 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref>
Nobles historically drew most of its students from "the fashionable families of Greater Boston";<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Sargent |first=Porter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xkwrAAAAYAAJ |title=A Handbook of American Private Schools |publisher=Plimpton Press |year=1916 |edition= |___location=Norwood, MA |pages=97}}</ref> sociologist [[E. Digby Baltzell|Digby Baltzell]] called it "Proper Boston's most exclusive day school."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Baltzell |first=E. Digby |title=Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class |publisher=Routledge |year=2017 |edition=Revised |___location=New York, NY |pages=299}}</ref> The school primarily catered to members of the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church]]; a 1954 alumnus recalled that when he was at Nobles, there were only two non-Episcopalian students.<ref name=":9">{{Cite news |last=Rosenfeld |first=Megan |date=2000-05-31 |title=The Peace of Children |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2000/06/01/the-peace-of-children/d799a39c-60af-4304-b29a-d7fd393efbce/ |access-date=2024-04-20 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> (A [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]], John Richardson '04, served as president of the Nobles board from 1921 to 1964.<ref>{{Cite web |title=John Richardson '04 |url=https://site.rocketalumnisolutions.com/entry/210/5510/147932 |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=rocketalumnisolutions.com |language=en}}</ref>) [[File:NG MainBuilding.jpg|thumb|Nobles' dining hall, colloquially called the Castle, in 2017<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 20, 2013 |title=Castle project at Noble and Greenough School designed to LEED Gold standard |url=https://nerej.com/castle-project-at-noble-and-greenough-school-designed-to-leed-gold-standard |access-date=March 5, 2023 |publisher=New England Real Estate Journal}}</ref>|left|220x220px]]In its early days, Nobles cycled through a series of buildings in Boston.<ref>"150 Years," pp. 27-31.</ref> In 1922, at the peak of the [[Country Day School movement|country day school movement]], the school moved to suburban Dedham, where it has remained ever since.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |title=Our Castle Story {{!}} Sharing A Piece of Nobles History |url=http://noblescastlestory.wordpress.com/}}</ref> (In the 1920s, Nobles, [[Roxbury Latin School|Roxbury Latin]], and [[Belmont Hill School|Belmont Hill]] all set up campuses in the Boston suburbs.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jarvis |first=F. Washington |title=Schola Illustris: The Roxbury Latin School, 1645-1995 |publisher=David R. Godine |year=1995 |___location=Boston, MA |pages=355–56, 397}}</ref>) The property had previously been the estate of [[Albert W. Nickerson]], a Nobles grandparent, who had commissioned [[Frederick Law Olmsted]] to lay out the site.<ref name=":1" /> Nickerson's [[Richardsonian Romanesque]] mansion, popularly dubbed "the Castle," now serves as the school's dining hall.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our Campus |url=https://www.nobles.edu/about/campus/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=Noble & Greenough School |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 1926, shortly after moving to Dedham, Nobles discontinued its primary school program. In response, a coalition of Nobles parents (including [[Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.|Joseph Kennedy Sr.]]) started the [[Dexter School]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Axelrod |first=Alan |title=Lost Destiny: Joe Kennedy Jr. and the Doomed WWII Mission to Save London |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=2015 |___location=New York, NY |pages=41}}</ref> One of the Nobles elementary school students who transferred to Dexter was third-grader [[John F. Kennedy]].<ref name=":12">"150 Years," p. 31.</ref>
=== Predecessors ===
Nobles is descended from various Boston college-preparatory day schools, all of which primarily prepared students for the [[Harvard College]] entrance examinations. The curriculum of these schools was primarily classical, as until 1887, Harvard required applicants to study both Latin and Greek.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hyland |first=Richard |date=1986 |title=A Defense of Legal Writing |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3312113 |journal=University of Pennsylvania Law Review |volume=134 |issue=3 |pages=622 |doi=10.2307/3312113 |jstor=3312113 |issn=0041-9907|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Moreover, even after 1887, Harvard still required applicants to demonstrate either "an elementary working knowledge" of Latin and Greek, or advanced preparation in mathematics or natural sciences.<ref name=":7">{{Cite news |last=Greenough |first=James Jay |date=1892-05-01 |title=The Present Requirements For Admission to Harvard College |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1892/05/the-present-requirements-for-admission-to-harvard-college/526005/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |work=The Atlantic |language=en |issn=2151-9463}}</ref> According to James Greenough, in practice, only students "especially adapted to the study of mathematics and natural science" could get into Harvard without studying the classics.<ref name=":7" />
In the nineteenth century, most public high schools lacked the resources to employ a classics teacher.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Karabel |first=Jerome |title=The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton |publisher=[[Mariner Books]] |year=2006 |edition=Revised |___location=New York |pages=23}}</ref> By contrast, classically oriented private schools like Nobles and its predecessors were very successful at preparing students to pass Harvard's entrance exams.
* In 1851, [[Boston Latin School]] headmaster Epes Sargent Dixwell resigned from BLS to found '''Dixwell's Private Latin School'''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bowditch |first=Charles P. |date=1900 |title=Epes Sargent Dixwell |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25129977 |journal=Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |volume=35 |issue=27 |pages=625–628 |jstor=25129977 |issn=0199-9818}}</ref> From 1846 to 1870, Dixwell's and Nobles supplied 12% of Harvard undergraduates, more than every other Boston-area private day school combined.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Story |first=Ronald |date=1975 |title=Harvard Students, the Boston Elite, and the New England Preparatory System, 1800-1876 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/367846 |journal=History of Education Quarterly |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=291 |doi=10.2307/367846 |jstor=367846 |issn=0018-2680|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* Dixwell retired in 1872 and was succeeded by John Prentiss Hopkinson, who renamed the school '''Hopkinson School'''.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Holmes |first=Bob |date=2012-11-20 |title=Oneida Football Club, the first team to play high school football |url=https://www.boston.com/sports/untagged/2012/11/20/oneida-football-club-the-first-team-to-play-high-school-football/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=www.boston.com |language=en-US}}</ref> Hopkinson was the brother-in-law of Harvard president [[Charles William Eliot|Charles Eliot]],<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=1910-01-15 |title=Death of John P. Hopkinson |url=https://cambridge.dlconsulting.com/?a=d&d=Tribune19100115-01.2.66&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=The Cambridge Tribune}}</ref> and from 1870 to 1895, Hopkinson's was Harvard's third-largest feeder school, with 331 students.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Harvard Preparatory Schools |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1895/1/26/harvard-preparatory-schools-previous-to-1869/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=The Harvard Crimson}}</ref> Other Hopkinson's teachers included Arthur Volkmann and James Greenough,<ref name=":3" /> both of whom eventually joined the Nobles faculty.
* Hopkinson retired in 1897 and redistributed his remaining students between Nobles and '''Volkmann School''', which Arthur Volkmann had opened in 1895.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> From 1906 to 1915, Nobles and Volkmann's were Harvard's fourth- and tenth-largest feeder schools, with 232 and 133 students; if combined, they would have been the second-largest, behind Boston Latin and ahead of [[Phillips Exeter Academy|Phillips Exeter]].<ref>Karabel, pp. 570-71.</ref> Nobles and Volkmann's merged in 1917 due to declining enrollment at Volkmann's; amidst anti-German sentiment in the United States during [[World War I]], newspapers had falsely accused the Prussian-born Volkmann of being a German spy.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Aiello |first=Thomas |title=The Trouble in Room 519: Money, Matricide, and Marginal Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century |publisher=Louisiana State University Press |year=2021 |___location=Baton Rouge, LA |pages=31}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Burrage |first=Melissa D. |title=The Karl Muck Scandal: Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War I America |publisher=University of Rochester Press |year=2019 |___location=Rochester, NY |pages=113}}</ref>
Nobles claims the history and alumni of Volkmann School.<ref name=":6" /> In 1966, Volkmann's alumni erected a monument to their alma mater on the Nobles campus.<ref>"150 Years," p. 33.</ref> It is less clear whether Nobles claims the alumni of Dixwell's or Hopkinson's. The school does not claim Dixwell's 1851 foundation date.<ref name=":10" /> However, Nobles' Latin prize is named after Epes Dixwell,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Class of 2021 Awards and Prizes |url=https://www.nobles.edu/class-of-2021-awards-and-prizes/ |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=Noble & Greenough School |language=en-US}}</ref> and in 1923 Nobles erected a plaque honoring Dixwell's alumnus [[Gerrit Smith Miller]], an early pioneer of American football.<ref name=":11">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e_6fAAAAMAAJ |title=Gerrit Smith Miller: An Appreciation |publisher=The Noble and Greenouth School |year=1924 |editor-last=Scudder |editor-first=Winthrop S. |___location=Dedham, MA |pages=26–30}}</ref>
=== Recent years ===
Nobles began admitting black students in 1964 and girls in 1974.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Charles |first=Heidi |date=2021-02-12 |title=A Highlight from the Archives—Celebrating Black History Month |url=https://www.nobles.edu/news/a-highlight-from-the-archives-celebrating-black-history-month/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=Noble & Greenough School |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>"150 Years," p. 36.</ref> The school had initially attempted to merge with [[Winsor School]], an all-girls prep school in Boston, but negotiations were unsuccessful.<ref>Jarvis, p. 467.</ref>
In 2017, Harvard's student newspaper reported that Nobles was Harvard's fourth-largest feeder school, behind [[Boston Latin School]], [[Phillips Academy]], and [[Stuyvesant High School]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Making of a Harvard Feeder School |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/12/13/making-harvard-feeder-schools/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=The Harvard Crimson}}</ref> From 2019 to 2023, the school sent 52 students (out of roughly 650) to Harvard.<ref name=":4" /> Many of these students come through Nobles' athletic programs. In the 2020–21 school year, Nobles was the single largest contributor to the [[Harvard Crimson|Harvard Crimson varsity teams]], with 15 students on Harvard rosters. 14 of these 15 students were on the lacrosse, ice hockey, and rowing teams.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Varsity Athletes Bubble Up from Concentrated Pockets Across U.S., Internationally {{!}} News {{!}} The Harvard Crimson |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/11/4/athletics-data-feature/ |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=www.thecrimson.com}}</ref>
From 2013 to 2018, Nobles conducted a $137 million fundraising campaign, which increased the school's endowment by $60 million and raised funds to build a new library and renovate the Castle.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Capital Campaign: Be Nobles Bold |url=https://www.nobles.edu/giving/funds-campaigns/capital-campaign/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=Noble & Greenough School |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Coffin |first=Daniel |date=2019-11-08 |title=What Noble and Greenough School's Landmark $138M Campaign Teaches Us About the Future of Independent School Philanthropy |url=https://www.developmentguild.com/client-news/noble-greenough-school-campaign-indepent-school-philanthropy/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=Development Guild DDI |language=en}}</ref>
Nobles has had only seven heads of school in over 150 years. In 2017, Catherine J. Hall became Nobles' first female Head of School.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=Winter 2017 |title=Ready to Lead: Catherine J. Hall Appointed Seventh Head of School |url=https://issuu.com/nobleandgreenoughschool/docs/nobles_w17_lr_nocontacts |journal=Nobles Magazine |pages=6–7 |via=Issuu}}</ref> During her tenure, the percentage of self-identified students of color increased from 35% in the 2018–19 school year to 49% in the 2023–24 school year. The percentage of students on financial aid increased from 28% to 30% during the same timeframe.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2018-2019 Profile |url=https://www.nobles.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CollegeProfile2018.pdf |access-date=2014-04-19 |website=Noble and Greenough School}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=2023-2024 School Profile |url=https://www.nobles.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Nobles-College-Profile-2023-2024.pdf |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=Noble and Greenough School}}</ref>
=== List of Heads of School ===
{| class="wikitable"
! align="left" |
! align="left" | Heads of School
! align="left" | Tenure
! align="left" | Events/Biography
|-
|1. ||George Washington Copp Noble ||1866–1919||Founder of the school; served until his death
|-
|2. ||Charles Wiggins II ||1920–1943 || School relocates to Dedham, Massachusetts. Lower School discontinued.
|-
|3. ||Eliot T. Putnam ||1943–1971 || Son-in-law of Charles Wiggins
|-
|4. ||Edward "Ted" S. Gleason || 1971–1987 || School begins to admit girls
|-
|5. ||Richard "Dick" H. Baker || 1987–2000 ||
|-
|6. ||Robert P. Henderson '76 || 2000–2017 ||Oversaw the building of the MAC, arts center, new library, renovation of Baker, castle remodel, and more.
|-
|7. ||Catherine J. Hall || 2017–present ||
|}
== Admissions and student body ==
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" style="float:right;" ; text-align:right; font-size:80%;"
|+ style="font-size:90%" |Student body composition (2021–22)<ref name="nces">{{Cite web |title=Noble and Greenough School |url=https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/privateschoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&SchoolName=groton&State=25&NumOfStudentsRange=more&IncGrade=-1&LoGrade=-1&HiGrade=-1&ID=A1902328 |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=[[National Center for Education Statistics]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Massachusetts |url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/MA/PST045222 |access-date=2023-10-21 |website=[[United States Census Bureau]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
! Race and ethnicity
! colspan="2" data-sort-type="number" |Nobles
! colspan="2" data-sort-type="number" |Massachusetts
|-
| [[Non-Hispanic whites|White]]
|align=right| {{bartable|63.9|%|2||background:gray}}
|align=right| {{bartable|69.6|%|2||background:gray}}
|-
| [[Asian people|Asian]]
|align=right| {{bartable|12.9|%|2||background:purple}}
|align=right| {{bartable|7.7|%|2||background:purple}}
|-
| [[Black people|Black]]
|align=right| {{bartable|9.3|%|2||background:mediumblue}}
|align=right| {{bartable|9.5|%|2||background:mediumblue}}
|-
| [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]]
|align=right| {{bartable|4.7|%|2||background:green}}
|align=right| {{bartable|13.1|%|2||background:green}}
|-
| [[Multiracial people|Multiracial]]
|align=right| {{bartable|9.2|%|2||background:red}}
|align=right| {{bartable|2.7|%|2||background:red}}
|}
Nobles is primarily a day high school, although it operates a middle school for 110 students and a five-day boarding program for 50 students.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Enrollment Data (2021-22) - Noble and Greenough (00730810) |url=https://profiles.doe.mass.edu/profiles/student.aspx?orgcode=00730810&orgtypecode=11&&fycode=2022 |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=Massachusetts Department of Education}}</ref><ref name=":5" /> The school enrolled 638 students in the 2023–24 school year, 49% of whom identified as students of color, and 30% of whom were on financial aid.<ref name=":4" />
Nobles had a 16% admission rate in 2023.<ref name=":4" /> Students are primarily admitted in the seventh and ninth grades (55 and 65 incoming students per year, respectively).<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Admission FAQs |url=https://www.nobles.edu/admission/faqs/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=Noble & Greenough School |language=en-US}}</ref> In the 2023–24 school year, 39% of Nobles students came from public schools, 8% from charter or parochial schools, and 53% from private schools.<ref name=":4" />
== Finances ==
=== Tuition and financial aid ===
In the 2023–24 school year, Nobles charged 5-day boarding students $68,600 and day students $62,600.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |title=Tuition and Financial Aid |url=https://www.nobles.edu/admission/tuition-financial-aid/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224095340/https://www.nobles.edu/admission/tuition-financial-aid/ |archive-date=2024-02-24 |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=Noble and Greenough School |language=en-US}}</ref>
Nobles provides need-based [[Student financial aid in the United States|financial aid]] and commits to meet 100% of each admitted student's demonstrated financial need.<ref name=":8" /> In the 2023–24 school year, 30% of students were on financial aid,<ref name=":4" /> and the average aid grant was $44,935 (75% of day student tuition).<ref name=":8" />
=== Endowment and expenses ===
In its [[Internal Revenue Service]] filings for the 2021–22 school year, Nobles reported total assets of $328.0 million, net assets of $270.6 million, investment holdings of $191.7 million, and cash holdings of $22.8 million. Nobles also reported $46.2 million in program service expenses and $9.1 million in grants (primarily [[Student financial aid in the United States|student financial aid]]).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-05-09 |title=Noble And Greenough School, Full Filing - Nonprofit Explorer |url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/42104784/202311989349301136/full |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=ProPublica |language=en}}</ref>
== Athletics ==
Nobles competes in the [[Independent School League (New England)|Independent School League]], a group of day and boarding schools in Greater Boston. The school's website says that 74 Nobles teams have won ISL championships and that as of the 2023–24 school year, 87% of the varsity teams "have had a winning record in the past 10 years."<ref>{{Cite web |title=At a Glance |url=https://www.nobles.edu/about/ |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=Noble & Greenough School |language=en-US}}</ref> In the 2014–15 school year, eight Nobles alumnae were on the Harvard women's hockey team.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Freed |first=David |date=2015-05-06 |title=The Geography of Harvard Athletics |url=http://api.thecrimson.com/article/2015/5/6/geography-of-harvard-athletes/ |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=The Harvard Crimson |language=en}}</ref>
Nobles sponsors competition in the following sports:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Noble and Greenough School Athletics Portal |url=https://nobilis.nobles.edu/Athletics/TeamPage.php |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=nobilis.nobles.edu}}</ref>
{{columns-start|num=3}}
'''Fall athletic offerings'''
* [[Cross country running|Cross country]]
* [[Field hockey]] (girls)
* [[American football|Football]] (boys)
* [[Association football|Soccer]]
* [[Volleyball]] (girls)
{{column}}
'''Winter athletic offerings'''
* [[Skiing]]
* [[Basketball]]
* [[Ice hockey]]
* [[Squash (sport)|Squash]]
* [[Scholastic wrestling|Wrestling]]
{{column}}
'''Spring athletic offerings'''
* [[Baseball]] (boys)
* [[Rowing (sport)|Rowing]]
* [[Golf]]
* [[Lacrosse]]
* [[Softball]] (girls)
* [[Tennis]]
* [[Track and field]]
* [[Ultimate (sport)|Ultimate Frisbee]]
{{columns-end}}
=== Rivalries ===
Nobles' primary athletic rival was initially Volkmann's.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Paye |first=Marvin |date=Spring 2017 |title=Our Boys of Spring a Century (and more) Ago |url=https://issuu.com/nobleandgreenoughschool/docs/nobles_sp17_lr_single_nocontact__2_ |journal=Nobles Magazine |pages=48 |via=Issuu}}</ref> After the two schools merged and Nobles left Boston for Dedham, the rivalry shifted to [[Milton Academy]], located in the nearby suburb of [[Milton, Massachusetts|Milton]].<ref>{{Cite journal |date=Winter 2014 |title=Archive: A Picture Is Worth... |url=https://issuu.com/nobleandgreenoughschool/docs/nobles_w14_website |journal=Nobles Magazine |pages=72 |via=Issuu}}</ref> In contrast to Nobles' Episcopalian base, Milton historically educated Boston's Unitarian elite, giving a religious edge to the rivalry.<ref name=":62">{{Cite journal |last=Stayer |first=Jayme |date=2013 |title=T. S. Eliot as a Schoolboy: The Lockwood School, Smith Academy, and Milton Academy |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24246957 |journal=Twentieth Century Literature |volume=59 |issue=4 |pages=636 |jstor=24246957 |issn=0041-462X}}</ref> The rivalry predates the move to Dedham, as the two schools began playing football in 1886; as such, Nobles-Milton is the nation's [[List of high school football rivalries more than 100 years old|fifth-oldest high school football rivalry]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Moreno |first=Eric |title=The oldest high school football rivalries in the U.S. |url=https://blogs.usafootball.com/blog/6512/the-oldest-high-school-football-rivalries-in-the-u-s |access-date=2023-10-25 |website=blogs.usafootball.com}}</ref> However, Nobles did not beat Milton until 1932, after the move to Dedham.<ref name=":12" />
Nobles also counts [[Roxbury Latin School]] as a secondary rival.
Since neither Milton nor Roxbury Latin sponsor rowing,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Athletics |url=https://www.milton.edu/athletics/ |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=Milton Academy |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Team Pages |url=https://www.roxburylatin.org/athletics/teams/ |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=The Roxbury Latin School |language=en-US}}</ref> Nobles' primary crew rival is [[Groton School]], a matchup dating back to 1922.<ref>{{Cite web |title=High School/Scholastic: Groton: Boys 4+ vs. Nobles, May 16, 2015 - Rowing Regatta Results {{!}} row2k.com |url=https://www.row2k.com/results/resultspage.cfm?UID=6396162&cat=1 |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=row2k |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=Fall 2016 |title=Spring Sports |url=https://issuu.com/grotonschool/docs/quarterly-fall-2016/88 |journal=Groton School Quarterly |volume=LXXVIII |issue=3 |pages=86 |via=Issuu}}</ref>
=== Notable athletes ===
==== Ice hockey ====
* [[Bill Arnold (ice hockey)|Bill Arnold]], class of 2010
* [[Callahan Burke]], class of 2015
* [[John Cronin (ice hockey)|John Cronin]] ([[Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey|Boston University]])
* [[Mark Fayne]], class of 2006
* [[Jimmy Hayes (ice hockey)|Jimmy Hayes]], class of 2008
* [[Kevin Hayes (ice hockey)|Kevin Hayes]], class of 2010
* [[Sarah Parsons]], class of 2005 (U.S. Olympic Team bronze medalist)
* [[Helen Resor (ice hockey)|Helen Resor]], class of 2004 (U.S. Olympic Team bronze medalist)
* [[Karen Thatcher]], class of 2002 (U.S. Olympic Team silver medalist)
* [[Colin White (ice hockey, born 1997)|Colin White]], class of 2015
* [[Miles Wood]], class of 2015
* [[Jayden Struble]], class of 2019
==== Other ====
* [[Chris Cleary]], class of 1998 (soccer)
* [[Caroline Ducharme]], class of 2021 (basketball)<ref>{{cite web |title=Caroline Ducharme - Women's Basketball |url=https://uconnhuskies.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/caroline-ducharme/13215 |website=University of Connecticut Athletics |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Drew Kendall]], class of 2021 (football)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.si.com/college/bostoncollege/recruiting/drew-kendall-boston-college-targe-pete-kendall|website=[[Sports Illustrated]]|title=Boston College Target Spotlight: OG Drew Kendall|date=March 15, 2020|author=Black, A. J.}}</ref>
* [[Ben Rice (baseball)|Ben Rice]], class of 2017 (baseball)
* [[Courtney Sims]], class of 2003 (basketball)
* [[Warren Cummings Smith]], class of 2011 (skiing; [[2014 Winter Olympics]] participant)
* [[Chris Tierney (soccer)|Chris Tierney]], class of 2004 (soccer)
* [[Dan Weinstein (speed skater)|Dan Weinstein]], class of 1999 (speedskating; 2001 World Champion, 5000m relay)
==Notable alumni==
{{More citations needed|date=February 2024}}
=== Noble and Greenough ===
* [[Justin Alfond]], class of 1994, president of the [[Maine State Senate]]
* [[Ben Rice (baseball)|Ben Rice]], class of 2018, Baseball Player for the [[New York Yankees]]
* [[Arthur Everett Austin Jr.]], director of the [[Wadsworth Atheneum]]
* [[Michael Beach]], class of 1982, actor featured in [[ER (TV series)|ER]], [[Third Watch]]
* [[Ayla Brown]], class of 2006, singer and daughter of Massachusetts Senator [[Scott Brown (politician)|Scott Brown]]
* [[Richard Clarke Cabot]], medical researcher; discoverer of the [[Cabot rings|Cabot ring]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Williams |first=Thomas Franklin |date=1950 |title=Cabot, Peabody, and the Care of the Patient |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44443560 |journal=Bulletin of the History of Medicine |volume=24 |issue=5 |pages=462–481 |jstor=44443560 |issn=0007-5140}}</ref>
* [[Michael Jude Christodal]], class of 1986, recording artist, songwriter
* [[William Henry Claflin Jr.]], archaeologist and hockey coach<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Coolidge |first=Daniel J. |date=1982 |title=William Henry Claflin, Jr. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25080908 |journal=Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society |volume=94 |pages=85–87 |jstor=25080908 |issn=0076-4981}}</ref>
* [[Harry Crosby]], founder of the [[Black Sun Press]]
* [[Grafton D. Cushing]], lieutenant governor of Massachusetts
* [[Michael Deland]], class of 1959, U.S. [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|Environmental Protection Agency]] regional administrator; oversaw the cleanup of [[Boston Harbor]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michael Deland '59 |url=https://site.rocketalumnisolutions.com/entry/210/5510/147951 |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=rocketalumnisolutions.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Caroline Ducharme]], basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Caroline Ducharme - Women's Basketball |url=https://uconnhuskies.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/caroline-ducharme/14066 |website=University of Connecticut Athletics |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Robert Dunham]], American actor
* Harry J. Elam Jr., class of 1974, president of [[Occidental College]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Harry J. Elam, Jr. '74 |url=https://site.rocketalumnisolutions.com/entry/210/5510/147965 |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=rocketalumnisolutions.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Keith Elam]], member of [[Gang Starr]], aka Guru
* [[Selden Edwards]], class of 1959, best-selling novelist
* [[Richard P. Freeman]], class of 1888, U.S. Representative
* [[Seth Goldman (businessman)|Seth Goldman]], class of 1983, Co-Founder, President and CEO of [[Honest Tea]]
* [[Wycliffe Grousbeck]], class of 1979, co-owner of the [[Boston Celtics]]
* [[Tucker Halpern]], class of 2009, member of the Grammy-nominated DJ duo [[Sofi Tukker]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Marcus |first=Ezra |date=2018-01-09 |title=What Does Sofi Tukker Have That Apple Wants? |url=https://www.vulture.com/2018/01/what-does-sofi-tukker-have-that-apple-wants.html |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=Vulture |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Kevin Hayden]], class of 1986, Suffolk County district attorney<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.suffolkdistrictattorney.com/meet-district-attorney-hayden |title=Meet District Attorney Hayden}}</ref>
* [[Melvin Johnson]], class of 1927, weapons designer, Harvard professor
* [[Jonathan Kozol]], class of 1954, education writer and activist<ref name=":9" />
* [[Timothy Leland]], class of 1956, investigative journalist; founder of the [[Spotlight (film)|''Boston Globe'' Spotlight team]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Timothy Leland '56 |url=https://site.rocketalumnisolutions.com/entry/210/5510/147766 |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=rocketalumnisolutions.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Mr. Lif]], rapper
* [[Clarence Cook Little]], class of 1906, biologist and president of [[University of Michigan]]
* [[Royal Little]], class of 1915, founder of [[Fortune 500|''Fortune'' 500]] company [[Textron]] and "father of conglomerates"{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}
* [[A. Lawrence Lowell]], class of 1873, president of Harvard University (1909–1933)
* [[Guy Lowell]], class of 1888, architect, notably the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston|Boston Museum of Fine Arts]] and the [[New York County Courthouse]]<ref name=":6">"150 Years," p. 30.</ref>
* [[Percival Lowell]], class of 1872, astronomer<ref name=":6" />
* [[Francis Peabody Magoun]], [[World War I]] [[flying ace|ace]] and scholar of languages and literature
* [[Philip Ainsworth Means]], anthropologist, historian and author
* [[Samuel Eliot Morison]], class of 1901, American historian and author<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bentinck-Smith |first=William |date=1976 |title=Samuel Eliot Morison |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25080799 |journal=Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society |volume=88 |pages=121–131 |jstor=25080799 |issn=0076-4981}}</ref>
* [[Woolson Morse]]
* [[Albert Nickerson]], class of 1929, former chief executive of [[Mobil Oil]] and chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
* [[William Phillips (diplomat)|William Phillips]], class of 1896, United States diplomat
* [[Roger Putnam]], American politician and businessman
* [[Alexander H. Rice Jr.]], class of 1894, physician and explorer of South America<ref name=":6" />
* [[John Richardson Jr.]], class of 1939, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs<ref>{{Cite web |title=John Richardson Jr. '39 |url=https://site.rocketalumnisolutions.com/entry/210/5510/147772 |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=rocketalumnisolutions.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Leverett Saltonstall]], class of 1910, governor of Massachusetts (1939–1945) and United States Senator (1945–1967)
* [[Francis Sargent]], class of 1935, governor of Massachusetts (1969–1975)
* [[Henry Lee Shattuck]], class of 1897, attorney, philanthropist and politician<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Galvin |first=John T. |date=1977 |title=Henry Lee Shattuck: Ideal Politician |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/364701 |journal=The New England Quarterly |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=4 |doi=10.2307/364701 |jstor=364701 |issn=0028-4866|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* [[Mayo A. Shattuck III]], class of 1972, American businessman, CEO of [[Constellation Energy]]
* [[Louis Agassiz Shaw]], inventor of the [[Negative pressure ventilator|iron lung]], Harvard professor
* [[Robert Treat Paine Storer|Robert Storer]], former [[Harvard University]] football player and decorated war hero
* [[James J. Storrow]], class of 1881, president of [[General Motors]] and the [[Boy Scouts of America]], namesake of [[Storrow Drive]]<ref name=":6" />
* [[Richard Clipston Sturgis]], class of 1877, Boston architect
* [[William Davis Taylor]], class of 1927, publisher of the ''[[The Boston Globe|Boston Globe]]''<ref>{{Cite web |title=W. Davis Taylor '27 |url=https://site.rocketalumnisolutions.com/entry/210/5510/147935 |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=rocketalumnisolutions.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[J. Rupert Thompson]], class of 1986, reality television show producer
* [[George Clapp Vaillant]], anthropologist and author
* [[James N. Wood]], class of 1959, former president and CEO of the [[J. Paul Getty Trust]]
* [[Harry F. Stimpson Jr.]], lawyer and ambassador<ref>{{Cite web |title=Obituary for Harry Farnum Stimpson |url=https://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/5427142/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=Star Tribune}}</ref>
=== Volkmann's ===
* [[Ralph Lowell]], class of 1907, founder of [[WGBH (FM)|WGBH Radio]]<ref name=":6" />
* [[George Minot]], class of 1904, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]]-winning medical researcher<ref name=":6" />
* [[Edward Pearson Warner]], U.S. [[Assistant Secretary of the Navy (AIR)]]; co-founder of the [[International Civil Aviation Organization]]
=== Hopkinson's ===
* [[William Sumner Appleton|William Sumner Appleton Jr.]], historical preservationist
* [[Charles Allerton Coolidge]], architect, notably the [[Art Institute of Chicago]], [[Stanford University]], and [[Rockefeller University]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Emerson |first=William |date=1938 |title=Charles Allerton Coolidge (1858-1936) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20023321 |journal=Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |volume=72 |issue=10 |pages=359–360 |jstor=20023321 |issn=0199-9818}}</ref>
* [[Roland Burrage Dixon]], professor of anthropology at Harvard University<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Tozzer |first1=A. M. |last2=Kroeber |first2=A. L. |date=1936 |title=Roland Burrage Dixon |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/662335 |journal=American Anthropologist |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=291–300 |jstor=662335 |issn=0002-7294}}</ref>
* [[William Cameron Forbes]], United States [[Governor-General of the Philippines|governor-general of the Philippines]]; co-founder of [[Middlesex School]]
* [[Charles Hopkinson]], artist
* [[William E. Ladd|William Edwards Ladd]], chief of surgery at [[Boston Children's Hospital]]
* [[John H. Sherburne]], United States Army brigadier general
* [[C. M. S. McLellan|Charles Morton Stewart McLellan]], composer and playwright
* [[Francis R. Stoddard Jr.]], attorney
* [[Ezra Ripley Thayer]], dean of [[Harvard Law School]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Dunbar |first1=William H. |last2=Pound |first2=Roscoe |date=1915 |title=Ezra Ripley Thayer |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1325733 |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=1–12 |jstor=1325733 |issn=0017-811X}}</ref>
* [[John Thayer (ornithologist)|John Eliot Thayer]], ornithologist<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Phillips |first=John C. |date=1934 |title=John Eliot Thayer. 1862-1933 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4077434 |journal=The Auk |volume=51 |issue=1 |pages=46–51 |doi=10.2307/4077434 |jstor=4077434 |issn=0004-8038}}</ref>
* [[Benjamin W. Wells (fire commissioner)|Benjamin Wells]], commissioner of the Boston Fire Department
=== Dixwell's ===
* [[Henry Adams]], journalist and historian
* [[Robert Amory]], physician and professor of medicine
* [[Murray R. Ballou]], president of the [[Boston Stock Exchange]]
* [[Charles Pickering Bowditch]], archaeologist and linguist<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Storey |first=Moorfield |date=1922 |title=May Meeting. Gifts to the Society; Franklin's German Newspaper, 1751-52; Charles Pickering Bowditch |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25080146 |journal=Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society |volume=56 |pages=299–315 |jstor=25080146 |issn=0076-4981}}</ref>
* [[Edward Burgess (yacht designer)|Edward Burgess]], yacht designer; three-time [[America's Cup]] winner<ref name=":11" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-19 |title=This Month in Herreshoff History: "Designing an America's Cup Defender" |url=https://herreshoff.org/2021/08/this-month-in-herreshoff-history-designing-an-americas-cup-defender/ |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=Herreshoff Marine Museum |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.]], U.S. Supreme Court justice<ref>{{Cite web |title=Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. {{!}} Mass.gov |url=https://www.mass.gov/person/oliver-wendell-holmes-jr |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=www.mass.gov |language=en}}</ref>
* [[William Lawrence (bishop)|William Lawrence]], [[Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts]]<ref name=":11" />
* [[Henry Cabot Lodge|Henry Cabot Lodge Sr.]], United States Senator from Massachusetts<ref name=":11" />
* [[Gerrit Smith Miller|Gerrit Smith "Gat" Miller]], early American football pioneer<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":11" />
* [[William Wells Newell]], folklorist<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bell |first=Michael J. |date=1973 |title=William Wells Newell and the Foundation of American Folklore Scholarship |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3813877 |journal=Journal of the Folklore Institute |volume=10 |issue=1/2 |pages=7–21 |doi=10.2307/3813877 |jstor=3813877 |issn=0015-5934|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* [[Charles Sanders Peirce]], philosopher<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Petry |first=Edward S. |date=1992 |title=The Origin and Development of Peirce's Concept of Self-Control |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40320385 |journal=Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society |volume=28 |issue=4 |pages=667–690 |jstor=40320385 |issn=0009-1774}}</ref>
* [[Charles Sprague Sargent]], botanist, director of the [[Arnold Arboretum|Harvard Arboretum]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rehder |first=Alfred |date=1927 |title=Charles Sprague Sargent |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43780453 |journal=Journal of the Arnold Arboretum |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=69–86 |jstor=43780453 |issn=0004-2625}}</ref>
* [[Bellamy Storer (ambassador)|Bellamy Storer]], U.S. Ambassador to Austria, Belgium, and Spain
* [[John Collins Warren (surgeon, born 1842)|John Collins Warren Jr.]], president of the [[American Surgical Association]]
* [[Roger Wolcott (Massachusetts politician)|Roger Wolcott]], Governor of Massachusetts<ref name=":11" />
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*[[History of education in Dedham, Massachusetts]]
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