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Northfield Mount Hermon School (NMH) is a ninth-twelfth grade private, college preparatory school...

Northfield Mount Hermon School (NMH) is a ninth-twelfth grade private, college preparatory school located near the Connecticut River in the town of Gill, Massachusetts, United States. The school was originally founded by famed Protestant evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody as two separate institutions: Northfield Seminary for Young Ladies in 1879, and Mount Hermon School for Boys in 1881. Moody envisaged both these schools as parts of his dream to provide the best possible education for less privileged people. Indeed, even, in their infancy, Moody’s schools matriculated students whose parents were slaves, Native Americans, and from outside the US—something that was unimaginable in many elite private schools at that time. Moody located the girls' school in Northfield, Massachusetts, the town of his birth, and the boys' school several miles away in the town of Gill. After the schools merged in 1971, both campuses remained in use until the Northfield campus was closed in 2005. Moody's birthplace and burial place are both located on the Northfield campus. In Moody's view, Christian religious education was an essential part of the objective of his schools. However, under subsequent