↑ Arenson, Karen W. (26 tháng 1 năm 1997). “Rodney O. Felder Dies at 69; Finch College's Last President”. New York Times. Truy cập ngày 1 tháng 3 năm 2014. Finch was founded in 1900 as a two-year finishing school for women. Dr. Felder and others at the school maintained, however, that it had become as academically demanding as Barnard, Bryn Mawr and other colleges.
“Editorial”. Forgotten Books. The Sweet Briar Magazine. 1915. Bản gốc lưu trữ ngày 2 tháng 4 năm 2015. Truy cập ngày 15 tháng 3 năm 2015. Do we not rather resent it when we hear the college where we have all worked just as hard as possible called 'only a finishing school ?' Of course, finishing schools are all right in themselves, but are we not something more ?
Burlington Howard Ball (12 tháng 8 năm 1996). Hugo L. Black : Cold Steel Warrior. Oxford University Press, USA. tr. 20–. ISBN978-0-19-536018-9. "[Hugo Black was] a traditional southern sexist male who believed...that women should not go out of their way to read the classics. Instead they should go to finishing school and prepare themselves for the rewarding, nurturing role of wife and mother...[H]e wanted [his daughter Jo Jo] to go to Sweet Briar College because, according to him, scholarship should never play too big a role in a woman's life".
Peter Galuszka (4 tháng 3 năm 2015). “Why Sweet Briar Is Closing”. Styleweekly. Truy cập ngày 6 tháng 3 năm 2015. Sweet Briar has offered strong academics, including engineering for its students, many of whom went on to top global jobs. It also had a reputation, admittedly dated, of being an Old South finishing school for affluent young women who enjoyed riding horses and the social whirl.
Jane Stancill (5 tháng 3 năm 2015). “Sweet Briar Memories”. Inside Higher Education. Truy cập ngày 7 tháng 3 năm 2015. Sweet Briar was, in a sense, a classic finishing school that had adapted to modern times. But even in the 1980s there were traditions that seemed quaint, odd or, frankly, rooted in a sexist society.
Daniel Luzer (5 tháng 3 năm 2015). “Another Girl Down: Sweet Briar College Closes”. Washington Monthly. Bản gốc lưu trữ ngày 7 tháng 3 năm 2015. Truy cập ngày 10 tháng 3 năm 2015. Sweet Briar discovered what most other women's colleges have figured out: the finishing school model doesn't work in the 21st century.
Penelope Green (23 tháng 4 năm 2015). “The Independent Women of Sweet Briar”. The New York Times. Truy cập ngày 23 tháng 4 năm 2015. [The 20th Century was] an era marked by conflicting cultures: one that was still defined by hostess houses, white gloves and the 'ring before spring' doctrine that cast women's colleges as mere finishing schools, and one with a commitment to educating women for roles far from the home.
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