Word: foxcroft
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Stephens Junior College in Columbia, Mo. is a "progressive" finishing school, attended by the daughters of well-to-do doctors, lawyers, diplomats, Army and Navy officers. Less costly ($950 a year) and less swank than such Eastern schools as Miss Porter's (Farmington) or Foxcroft, Stephens nevertheless has luxurious dormitories. a stable of 36 horses, a country club and other necessary equipment for turning out elegant young ladies. But fertile-brained James Madison ("Daddy") Wood, Stephens' president, believes that elegance is not enough. Eighteen years ago he hired an expert to find out what women do besides being...
Most exclusive of the finishing schools are Foxcroft and Farmington. Tuition and board at Farmington cost $1,800 a year. Farmington does not prepare girls for college (but will make exceptions to this rule beginning next fall). Some Farmington rules...
...Ethel Walker, Rosemary Hall, Westover, Miss Hall's, Miss Porter's (Farmington), Chapin, Foxcroft, Brearley and Spence...
Because Aiken is much favored by Eastern socialites, the school attracted many a notable daughter, fell into the familiar pattern of select schools, emulating notably Virginia's Foxcroft. There are hockey and lacrosse; horses may be brought to Fermata or hired there; able girls go drag hunting. But Fermata is not scholastically distinguished. Possibly it did not care to be; between 1923 and 1927 only three girls took College Board examinations...
...Katherine Winthrop of Boston and Foxcroft School: the girls' national indoor tennis tournament in Brookline, Mass., beating Hilda Boehm, top-seeded star, 6-3, 6-3 in the finals...