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And prestigious universities, in particular, have historically been finishing schools for the hereditary elite, a role that introduces criteria that favor the wealthy and powerful.

Unaccredited, expensive, and, typically, family run, Swiss finishing schools took the place of men's university education for many wealthy Western European women with matrimonial ambitions.

The better question might be: How should colleges change to stop being institutions that reproduce wealth — to stop being finishing schools for the upper-middle class?

Otherwise, they grow up in a world of women, first with their mother and aunts, then at boarding and finishing schools run by spinsters and lesbians.

So while it may seem like these schools are obscenely large hedge funds attached to finishing schools for children of privilege, they're actually key guarantors of the American dream.

Governments realised that great universities were no longer just sources of cultural pride and finishing schools for the children of the well-off, but the engines of future prosperity—generators of human capital, of ideas and of innovative companies.

"By lowering the age of criminality to 9, we will be creating kindergarten prisons, and instead of rehabilitating children, these will become finishing schools for young criminals, their impressionable minds tutored by the best in the trade," she said in a statement.

She had also been thrown out of two prominent Roman Catholic boarding schools; sent to finishing schools in Florence and Paris, where paintings of all kinds (but especially Early Renaissance) were abundant; and presented at Court, receiving rigorous training in drawing along the way.

If Soumah, a teenage midfielder, could succeed in the test period and convince his hosts of his value, he might take his place at one of the finest soccer finishing schools in the world, and maybe even follow the path that led George Weah, Thierry Henry and Kylian Mbappé from Monaco to global stardom.

In 1787, there were no schools for girls in Copenhagen, except girls' pensions and Finishing schools such as Madam Lindes Institut. In contrast to the finishing schools, J. Cl. Todes Døtreskole offered academic subjects more equal to that of boys, and was thus a pioneer school in Denmark. It was also very popular among the Copenhagen merchant class when it opened. However, information about the school is very limited.

Switzerland was known for its private finishing schools. Most resided in the French-speaking cantons near Lake Geneva. The country was favoured because of its reputation as a healthful environment, its multi-lingual and cosmopolitan aura, and the region's political stability.

The Finishing School, a 2004 novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark, concerns 'College Sunrise', a present-day finishing school in Ouchy on the banks of Lake Geneva near Lausanne in Switzerland. Unlike the traditional finishing schools, the one in this novel is mixed-sex.

Establishments concerned with experimental work, storage and production were given Roman numerals (mostly in Hertfordshire). Active stations and training schools had Arabic numbers. These included paramilitary schools around Arisaig in Scotland, "finishing" schools around Beaulieu in Hampshire and operational schools in various counties including Gloucestershire, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire.

The villa which houses the Institut was built in 1911 on a mountainside above Montreux, overlooking Lake Geneva. It was the home of a Dutch baroness. In 1954, Dorette Failletaz founded Institut Villa Pierrefeu. Many other finishing schools were located nearby Viviane Néri bought Pierrefeu from her mother in 1971.

Initially working as a director for summer camps across the United States and the Ian Rush Finishing Schools, Gale became the director of soccer at Spencer High School in Iowa in 2001. After two years, he became director for a North American academy run by Fulham, and later became the Canadian national director for Charlton Athletic's sports academy.

Uhlman was born in South Kensington in 1912. Her conservative parents were Nancy Beatrice born Borwick and the politician Henry Page Croft, first Baron Croft. Her maternal grandfather was Robert Hudson Borwick, first Baron Borwick. She was educated at St James's School in Malvern and she was "presented at court" after attending finishing schools in Paris and Florence.

Graeme Donald claims that the educational ladies' salons of the late 19th century led to the formal, finishing institutions evidenced in Switzerland around that time. At their peak, thousands of wealthy young women were sent to the dozens of finishing schools available. A primary goal was to teach students to acquire husbands. The 1960s marked the decline of the finishing school.

In fact, he considered getting rich to be "glorious." Chinese cities have morphed into major shopping centers. The number of billionaires (in U.S. dollars) in China is growing faster than anywhere else in the world, so much so that butler academies, whose students will serve the 'new rich', and finishing schools, whose students were born to rich parents, have been established.

Doreen Stephens was born in Hammersmith. She was educated at a private boarding school in Folkestone, before attending finishing schools in Brussels and Wimbledon. In 1933, at the age of 19, she married a stockbroker, Richard Holden, with whom she had two children, though after five years, the couple divorced. During the war, she was a commandant in the British Red Cross.

It remained one of the largest schools for girls in Copenhagen in 1816, when it had 100 pupils, and as late as 1830, when there were still 90 pupils. After the foundation of the J. Cl. Todes Døtreskole , however, girls' schools of a more serious kind gradually started to replace the kind of finishing schools represented by the Madam Lindes Institut.

Edith Carr spent her young life taking care of her tuberculosis-ridden mother and raising her siblings. When both parents died in the late 1880s, Carr became guardian to her siblings. Though proud of his English heritage, Richard wanted his children to get a "Canadian education," according to her sister Emily. The children were sent to public school rather than the typical private finishing schools.

Another notable alumna was Marjorie Hillis, also a popular writer of the 1930s; and social scientist Louise Leonard McLaren. As with most finishing schools, the rules were strict. There was no smoking, no eating between meals, no candy, no evening dresses and no low-neck dresses. Jewelry was to be kept at a minimum, outings required chaperons and of course, bills had to be paid on time.

It was inaugurated in 1877. A.-F. Buscarlet exerted a great influence on the young English speakers studying at the finishing schools of Lausanne. More than three thousand are said to have followed his Bible studies. More generally, he was much involved in promoting the Protestant cause in Europe and in evangelization in Italy; he was also a member of the Sunday Observance Society.

Göteborg: Kvinnohistoriskt arkiv. ISBN These schools could normally be classified as finishing schools, with only a shallow education of polite conversation in French, embroidery, piano playing and other accomplishments, and the purpose was only to give the students a suitable minimum education to be a lady, a wife and a mother. In the first half of the 19th century, a growing discontent over the shallow education of women eventually resulted in the finishing schools being gradually replaced by girls' schools with a higher level of academic secondary education, called "Higher Girl Schools", in the mid-19th century. At the time of the introduction of the compulsory elementary school for both sexes in Sweden in 1842, only five schools in Sweden provided academic secondary education to females: the Societetsskolan (1786), Fruntimmersföreningens flickskola (1815) and Kjellbergska flickskolan (1833) in Gothenburg, Askersunds flickskola (1812) in Askersund, and Wallinska skolan (1831) in Stockholm.

The schools were popular with parents. They gave moral guidance and were excellent finishing schools. They also prepared some of the pupils for tertiary study, after which they would go on to be secondary school teachers. Freeman was active in the wider intellectual community of the region - in 1899, the Gore Young Men's Temperance Society organised a lecture series at which Freeman delivered a lecture on "The Cry of the Children".

Institut Villa Pierrefeu is run by Viviane Néri. Her son Philippe oversees strategy. Pierrefeu is the last institution teaching etiquette born of the tradition of 19th-century Swiss finishing schools. Such institutions were small, all-girls schools offering year, or half-year courses to upper class European women to 'finish' their education by providing practical skills applicable to their future home lives and social graces to attract husbands.

Her brother Graham inherited the viscountcy on her father's death in 1969. Her family home was Dumbleton Hall in Worcestershire, inherited by her mother. She was educated at St James's School in Malvern and before travelling in Europe, attended finishing schools in Paris and Florence She dabbled with several possible careers. She was a talented photographer of landscapes and architecture, with pictures published in Architectural Review and Horizon.

The main plot of the play, about the loves of Infortunio and Selina, derives from the tale of Phylotus and Emilia in the eighth novel of Barnabe Rich's Farewell to the Military Profession.Forsythe, p. 117. The "school of complement" material in the play satirizes actual trends in Shirley's era, in which academies that could be considered finishing schools for adult gentry were a social reality [see: The New Academy].

The school's founder, Ethel Walker, was interested in creating one of the first girls' college preparatory schools, as an alternative to the finishing schools that were then in vogue for upper-class girls. The school seeks to provide an environment designed for girls to discover and develop their intellectual, artistic, athletic and leadership talents. Teaching girls to lead with "confidence, conviction and courage" is a consistent theme, from the school's mission to its curriculum.

The school's college preparatory curriculum reflected a national shift in women's educational opportunities; until the late nineteenth century, girls' schools were mainly finishing schools or arts schools and were not academically equivalent to men's schools. Miss Orton's School was the first non-religious private girls' school in Pasadena, as well as the only such school in the city until 1913, making Orton a pioneer of women's education in Pasadena. The school closed in 1930. .

Bethell was the eldest daughter of the well-to-do sheep farmer Richard Bethell and his wife Isabel Anne, née Lillie. Her father had emigrated initially in the 1860s. She was educated at Rangiora primary school, Christchurch Girls' High School, a school in Oxford, and Swiss finishing schools, before returning to New Zealand in 1892 and devoting herself to charitable work. Bethell returned to Europe in 1895 to study painting in Geneva and music in Dresden.

Born 20 April 1887 in Preston, Sussex, Dorothy was the eldest of four children born to George Benson Clough, a barrister originally from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, and Rose Emily Russell, a Londoner. Dorothy had two sisters, Winifred and Pauline, and a brother Hugh. As children they were encouraged to pursue an interest in literature and produced handwritten magazines of poems, essays and illustrations. Dorothy was educated at the local grammar school before being sent to finishing schools in Germany and Paris.

During the Victorian era, when finishing schools for young women were at their peak and manners and comportment were more rigid, young women were sometimes instructed to improve their posture by balancing books or a teacup and saucer on their heads while walking and getting up or down from a chair. They were told to model themselves after "the Egyptian water-carrier, with the jug of water poised so prettily on her head, and her figure so straight and beautiful".

After his success as a used car salesman and with Kaiser-Frazer dealerships in Los Angeles and New York City, Muntz founded the Muntz Car Company, which made the "Muntz Jet", a sports car with jet-like contours. The car was manufactured between 1951 and 1953, although fewer than 400 were produced. Muntz married seven times. His wives included actress Joan Barton (who appeared in Angel and the Badman with John Wayne) and Patricia Stevens of the Patricia Stevens Finishing schools.

This school was tasked with giving Lancaster experience to aircrews who had just finished their training at a Heavy Conversion Unit prior to posting to an operational squadron. During 1944, as Lancasters were then being used at Heavy Conversion Units, the Lancaster Finishing Schools were disbanded and Hemswell again took on an operational role. No. 150 and 170 squadrons took up residence and commenced flying bomber operations until the end of the war. The film "Night Bombers" was shot at Hemswell during this period.

Birgitte was born Birgitte Eva Henriksen, in Odense, Denmark, the younger daughter of Asger Preben Wissing Henriksen, a lawyer, and his wife, Vivian van Deurs. She was educated in Odense and at finishing schools in Lausanne and Cambridge. She took her mother's ancestral name van Deurs on 15 January 1966, when her parents separated.Name change is mentioned in parish register of Th. Kingo, Odense (Regional Archive, Odense) After studying for three years in Copenhagen, she moved back to England in 1971 to work at the Danish Embassy in London.

At the time, there were no educational opportunities for women apart from finishing schools. She enrolled in one and attended for two weeks, but found it to be "idiotic" and a waste of time. To continue her education, Jacobs worked as an apprentice dressmaker and studied at home, where her mother taught her French and German. In addition, her father taught her Greek and Latin. Wanting to become a doctor like her father, Jacobs faced challenges, as higher education in 19th-century Netherlands was not open to women students.

After she was rejected from the University of Georgia, Flisch published letters and articles in numerous newspapers advocating for women's right to a higher education. Flisch mocked the superficiality of finishing schools and argued that women should receive training that would allow them to earn a living wage. In the 1920s, she led a strike that aimed to procure equal wages for women teachers. The Lucy Cobb Institute was the first school to offer Flisch a path in life unique to women during her lifetime, and she returned often after graduating with honors in 1877.

Following her career as a competitor, Roe served as the President of Great Britain's Ladies' Ski Club from 1957 to 1960. She founded the Ski Club Reps Course, Junior Championships, and the Schoolgirl Races. The Schoolgirl Races were founded in conjunction with Liz Fulton, and were originally organized for girls in finishing schools in Gstaad, Switzerland. In 1974, Roe was awarded the Pery Medal by the Ski Club of Great Britain, a prize instituted in 1929 and named after Edmond Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick, President of the Ski Club, 1925–1927.

Guendolen Plestcheeff (née Carkeek, December 19, 1892 – August 30, 1994) was a preservationist and arts advocate from Seattle, Washington, known variously as "Seattle's Grand, Grand Lady" and "the most elegant woman in Seattle". She was the wife of the Count Theodore Plestcheeff. Born Guendolen Carkeek to Morgan and Emily Carkeek, one of the area's early pioneer families for whom Carkeek Park is named, she started schooling in Seattle before being sent abroad to boarding and finishing schools in Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Upon her return to Seattle, she met Cav.

It had lost circulation by supporting the Copperhead Policy of opposing the American Civil War and advocating an immediate peace settlement with the Confederate States of America. Most readers in Philadelphia at the time supported the Union, although there was a strong contingent of Southern sympathizers and families with ties to the South, as Southerners had long had second homes in Philadelphia and sent their daughters to finishing schools there. In the face of declining circulation, publishers were reluctant to increase the one-cent subscription cost, although it was needed to cover the costs of production.New York Times, 3 Feb.

61 To satisfy censors, the story is set in a Shanghai casino, rather than a brothel; the name of the proprietress of the establishment is softened to "Mother Gin- Sling", rather than the impious "Mother Goddam" in the Colton's original. Gin- Sling's half-caste daughter Gene Tierney – the result of a coupling between Gin-Sling and British official Sir Guy Charteris Walter Huston – is the product of European finishing schools rather than a courtesan raised in her mother's whore house. The degradation of daughter who sports the nickname "Poppy" is no less degraded by her privileged upbringing.Baxter, 1971. p.

There were numerous medical and law schools.Cremin, American Education: The Metropolitan Experience 1876–1980 (1988) p 581 The city's Protestant elites sent their young men to university-preparatory schools in New England and then to Ivy League colleges, and their young women to the Seven Sisters colleges or to finishing schools. After 1900, Columbia had a reputation as heavily academic and was no longer attractive to upper-class young men.Frederic Copler Jaher, The Urban Establishment: Upper Strata in Boston, New York, Charleston, Chicago, and Los Angeles (1982) p 266–267 Jewish enrollment reached 40% at Columbia College in 1914; a quota system was installed to cut the proportion to 20%.

The school was founded on 12 September 1791.Døtreskolen i København af 1791 (1791-1899) (Københavns Stadsarkiv) The first serious secondary school for girls (as opposed to finishing schools) in Copenhagen had been J. Cl. Todes Døtreskole, founded in 1787, but the parents had been so discontented with it that they had closed it down in 1791 by removing their daughters from it. The parents of the former students of the closed school, belonging principally to the Copenhagen merchant class, formed a society which started the Døtreskolen af 1791. The students were given education in scientific subjects after the pattern of boys' schools, which made it a pioneer institution.

She was then sent to finishing schools in Maryland and Lausanne, Switzerland, from which she was expelled for violating the rules. She attended the Foxcroft School in Virginia, where she finished second in her class, and was then sent to a school in Rome where she was expelled for behavior issues. At age 19 years, she had her coming-out party in Chicago, after having spent a year in Europe with her mother and sister. Patterson's half-brother, James J. Patterson (1922–1992), was the son of Joseph Patterson and Mary King (1885–1975), who married in 1938, the same year Joseph and Alice's divorce was finalized.

The school was a fashionable and exclusive pension for upper class daughters, and focused on language (French, German and English) and accomplishments. It was in that aspect typical of the many finishing schools common in Copenhagen during the 18th-century, but it was the leading school of its kind during its foundation and the last of its kind. It was protected by the Danish royal court, who financed the localities of the school in exchange for fifteen free pupils from the families of officers. As such, the school received state funding of a kind and was the first school for girls in Denmark who did.

Flags in University Hall of students' countries represented at Ohio Wesleyan University. Ohio Wesleyan has upheld academic internationalism since its early years; since the 19th century, the college has established links with several international schools. In 1879, OWU alumna Elizabeth Russell founded Kwassui Women's College in Nagasaki, Japan, when predominant Japanese culture considered women's education unimportant. Today, Kwassui College is one of the top finishing schools for young women in Japan. In 1899, William Ehnis (from the class of 1898) traveled to Africa and opened a school in Mutare, Zimbabwe, that eventually became the Africa University. Ada M. Coe was an early woman Spanish Professor here in 1917.

Creole woman dressed in Fante attire on her wedding day In the city of Freetown, before World War One a woman's position was decided on either class or ethnicity. The Creole people were the dominant ethnic group, with some having access to a better education, the wealthier families had their daughters sent to British finishing schools. The majority of Creole women however fell into the lower classes and their education usually did not go beyond elementary school level in a similar vein to their male counterparts of the same class. In 1915, Adelaide Casely-Hayford played an important part regarding women's rights in Freetown giving a lecture on "The rights of Women and Christian Marriage".

In 1997 Roper was a vocal opponent of the government's plans to increase student tuition fees, arguing that such a move would significantly reduce university enrolment by low-income students... He also spoke against the use of A-levels as the sole screening test in university admissions, arguing that the students' background and social circumstances must also be taken into account.. During his service as the London Metropolitan's Vice-Chancellor, Roper was involved in a series of contentious battles with the union representing the university's lecturers.... In 2008, Roper attacked the government funding of Oxford University and Cambridge University, calling them "finishing schools" that had not delivered on government priorities for social mobility....

Edith Louise Rosenbaum was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, into a wealthy Jewish family in 1879.Cincinnati Enquirer, June 16, 1890 and June 13, 1895 Her father was Harry Rosenbaum, who rose to prominence in the dry goods field as a director of Louis Stix & Co. in Cincinnati. He was later influential as a cloak and suit manufacturer in his own right and an investor in garment industry real estate in New York, where he moved with his wife, the former Sophia Hollstein, and daughter Edith in 1902.New York Times, August 20, 1927 Edith was educated in Cincinnati public schools and a succession of finishing schools, including the Mt. Auburn Young Ladies Institute (later called the H. Thane Miller School) in Cincinnati and Miss Annabel's in Philadelphia.

Littleton was admitted to Balliol College, Oxford in 1594, aged 17Joseph Foster (1891): Alumni oxonienses – the members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714; their parentage, birthplace, and year of birth, with a record of their degrees. Page 919. – evidence for his birth date. He left after a year for a year of legal training – a common practice in the period, when the Inns of Court were often used as finishing schools for the landed gentryThe Inner Temple: Legal education to 1920 – at the Inner Temple, his father's Inn of Court. He was admitted on 23 November 1595, free of charge, on the orders of the parliament of that year, at the instance of Thomas Coventree, Autumn Reader for 1594.

Defago - an alumni herself - and Corley Smith took the lid off girls' finishing schools in Switzerland in a comic novel that takes on increasing overtones of pathos as it moves along. A review of the book summarised, "The common “dumping” of wealthy teenage girls from throughout the world into the deep freeze of a Swiss finishing school such as the fictional Pensionnat de Jeunes Filles Villa Joyeuse by what the author regards as “thoughtless, selfish parents” has prompted her to write the book. It's entertaining, if somewhat sensational, and the story is balanced and told with the sometimes amusing idiom of youth." Defago was said to have run a hotel in the Swiss Alps and was an alumnus of such schools.

Its large free black community aided fugitive slaves and founded the first independent black denomination in the nation, the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Philadelphia became one of the first U.S. industrial centers with a variety of industries, the largest being textiles. It had many economic and family ties to the South, with southern planters maintaining second homes in the city and having business connections with banks, sending their daughters to French finishing schools run by refugees from Saint-Domingue (Haiti), selling their cotton to textile manufacturers, which in turn sold some products to the South, for instance, clothing for slaves. At the beginning of the American Civil War, there were many southern sympathizers, although most city residents became firmly Union as the war went on.

Finch founded the Finch school in 1900 to provide career training for young women, saying that her own education at Barnard College had not given her or her classmates the skills needed to earn a living. Ironically, Finch became not a career-oriented college, but rather "one of the most famed of U.S. girls' finishing schools." Finch founded the Finch School, later Finch Junior College, and, after 1952, Finch College, to enact her conviction that women ought to be prepared for careers. She envisioned a world in which women would work until they wed, at about age 25, bear and rear children for about fifteen years, before resuming paid employment at about age 40 and working for another three decades.

During the Second World War, the Beaulieu, Hampshire Estate of Lord Montagu in the New Forest was the site of several group B finishing schools for agents operated by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) between 1941 and 1945. (One of the trainers was Kim Philby who was later found to be part of a spy ring passing information to the Soviets.) In 2005, a special exhibition was established at the Estate, with a video showing photographs from that era as well as voice recordings of former SOE trainers and agents. Although the Isle of Wight has at times been part of Hampshire, it has been administratively independent for over a century, obtaining a county council of its own in 1890. The Isle of Wight became a full ceremonial county in 1974.

The school has been referred to as the first girls' school in Sweden. Technically, this is not correct, as the first girls' school was Rudbeckii flickskola in 1632, and there were numerous schools for girls in 18th-century Sweden. However, the title is given because it was the first girls' school in Sweden to provide serious secondary education to girls in a manner more equal to that given to boys than in the other girls' schools in Sweden, which were essentially finishing schools. At the time of the introduction of compulsory elementary school in Sweden in 1842, it was one of five schools in Sweden to provide academic secondary education to female students; the others being Fruntimmersföreningens flickskola (1815) and Kjellbergska flickskolan (1833) in Gothenburg, Askersunds flickskola (1812) in Askersund and Wallinska skolan (1831) in Stockholm.

The Value of Single Sex Education: Twenty Five Years of High Quality Research, Third International Congress of the European Association for Single Sex Education, Warsaw, Poland. In the Western world, single sex education is primarily associated with the private sector, with the public (state) sector being overwhelmingly mixed sex; while in the Muslim world the situation is the opposite: public schools are usually single sex, while many private schools are mixed sex. Motivations for single sex education range from religious ideas of sex segregation to beliefs that the sexes learn and behave differently, and, as such, they thrive in a single sex environment. In the 19th century, in Western countries, single sex girls' finishing schools, and women's colleges offered women a chance of education at a time when they were denied access to mainstream educational institutions.