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A finishing school focuses on teaching young women social graces and upper-class cultural rites as a preparation for entry into society. [1] [2] [3] The name reflects the fact that it follows ordinary school and is intended to complete a young woman's education by providing classes primarily on deportment, etiquette, and other non-academic subjects.
The school started a new pre-academic program in 1927, providing day school classes for grades kindergarten through eight. [2] In the 1930s, Gunston Hall ranked "among the highest 'culture school' for girls in the United States". [10] In June 1942, the school's commencement speaker was Harry S. Truman, whose daughter Margaret was graduating. [11]
A new, modern, nonresidential girls' high school, Harpeth Hall School, was established on the Estes estate in the affluent Green Hills section of Nashville to take the place of Ward-Belmont. [3] The original campus remained under the aegis of the Tennessee Baptist Convention until 2007 when Belmont University became independent of its control.
In the 1840s, schools for girls spread outside the capital and a net of secondary education girl schools is established in Denmark. [69] 1841: Bulgaria The first secular girls school make education and the profession of teacher available for women. [83] 1842: Sweden Compulsory elementary school for both sexes is introduced. [84] Singapore
Many of the schools began as either school for girls, academies (which during the late 18th and early 19th centuries was the equivalent of secondary schools), or as a teaching seminary (which during the early 19th century were forms of secular higher education), rather than as a chartered college. During the 19th century in the United States ...
According to the Social Security Administration, the most popular baby names of the 1920s were “taken from a universe that includes 11,372,808 male births and 12,402,235 female births.”
Located in New Orleans, it is both the oldest continuously operating school for girls and the oldest Catholic school in the United States. 1742: German-speaking Moravians in Pennsylvania established the first all-girls boarding school in America, the Bethlehem Female Seminary to serve the Moravian community in and near Bethlehem. In 1863 it ...
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