A School for Learning Only

Where bright students cover the four-year high school curriculum in half that time, though without the advantage of “snap” courses and a campus

Emerson Institute was originally established in 1852 to train boys for Harvard College exclusively. Its stated object was “to furnish the foundation of a solid education. Its policy is to make its honors testimonials of merit, and not a certificate of attendance in a prescribed course of instruction.” The Institute has managed to live up to this nineteenth-century formula, despite later “improvements” in education, and can point with pride to its achievements.