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Poster in Vilnius (Vilna) for a stage version of Tevye.. Tevye the Dairyman, also translated as Tevye the Milkman (Yiddish: טבֿיה דער מילכיקער, Tevye der milkhiker [1] [2] [ˈtɛvjə ˌdɛr ˈmilxikər]) is the fictional narrator and protagonist of a series of short stories by Sholem Aleichem, and their various adaptations, the most famous being the musical Fiddler on the Roof ...
The Young Women's Leadership School (TYWLS) are public secondary schools for grades 6–12 that are operated by Student Leadership Network. TYWLS provide a single-gender educational choice for students who are often the first in their families to attend college.
The Young Ladies' Academy of Philadelphia was the first government recognized institution established for women's higher education in the United States. Located on Cherry Street, between Third and Fourth Streets in Philadelphia [ 1 ] and founded by John Poor on June 4, 1787, it was chartered on January 7, 1792.
This enterprise included a large dairy farm and hog raising operation and produced many crops. The school gradually phased out agricultural activities, beginning in the mid-1970s, selling off most of the remaining farmland to developers by the late 1990s. The dairy barns and silos remain as a memorial of the agricultural era of the school's ...
Portrait of a Young Woman Holding a Red Book, c. 1915 (Private collection) Portrait of a Young Beauty, c.1910 (Private collection) The Connoisseur, 1923 (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts) "Portrait of a Romany Girl" (The Yellow Shawl), c.1925 (Private collection) Woman in White Fur Wrap, c. 1920 (Private collection)
The Shipley sisters were strong-willed, highly educated Quaker women who created the school to pass on their values to similarly minded young women. [6] The school opened in the fall of 1894 with six students and nine faculty members. [6] By the 1940s, Shipley had expanded the student body to 341 students. [6]
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The school principal was Miss Carrie Sheads when Early's raids in Pennsylvania arrived at Gettysburg on June 26, 1863, [23] and Oak Ridge Academy was at the July 1 battle area which received Confederate cannon fire. [7] (a captured colonel returned to the school for his sword after escaping from Confederates during their retreat. [6])