Word: miss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Ogden pours her heaviest scorn on finishing schools. She studied nine of the most exclusive.* They go in, she reports, for uniforms, sports, compulsory chapel, languages (particularly French), literature, music, art, and keeping the girls away from boys...
Result of such mid-Victorian restrictions and the finishing schools' training, says Miss Ogden, is that their graduates: 1) become too much interested in men, 2) overemphasize their own importance, 3) become class-conscious, 4) know very little about the world. Farmington's most famed alumna is Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow...
...Miss Ogden concludes: "Today the chances are that better education [than Society Girls get in finishing schools] is available to their poor relations...
...Ethel Walker, Rosemary Hall, Westover, Miss Hall's, Miss Porter's (Farmington), Chapin, Foxcroft, Brearley and Spence...
...they were sitting on the porch, complained that Negroes were lazy. He heard of a white man who had killed 14 Negroes and never been arrested, met one white man who bragged of his cruelty towards them. He also decided that there was justice in the boast of Tupelo, Miss.: "the only place in the South where we have the same beautiful moons we had before...