Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court October 28, 1891 (Smyth v. Visitors of the Theological Institution in Phillips Academy in Andover)

lead-opinion

Knowltoh, J.

The Theological Institution in Phillips Academy in Andover has a peculiar organization. In 1778 the Academy was founded by Samuel Phillips and John Phillips, “ for the purpose of instructing youth, not only in English and Latin grammar, writing, arithmetic, and those sciences wherein they are commonly taught, but more especially to learn the great end and real business