Highlights 2017-18
Highlights 2017-18 Significant birthdays can evoke mixed feelings – an identity crisis at worst or at best many rueful backward glances as we survey the scene of our successes and failures, our hopes set against the realities that unfolded. For the High School’s big birthday – marking its 140th anniversary – there is no such ambivalence, even though its history has seen its share of highs and lows, successes and failures, triumphs and disasters. Highlights 2017-18 1 Pioneering Above all, the fact of the And, if we think that a double The political, economic and anniversary is a cause for standard in education to the social vicissitudes of those celebration. The School’s detriment of girls ended with fourteen decades have meant founders showed unusual the passing of the Victorian that there have been reverses foresight to establish an age, we need only to turn to along the way. For example, ambitious place of learning the pages of The Northampton the School, according to for girls in 1878. This was, Independent of 1958. Here, a the official history, was only remember, 40 years before mere 60 years ago (well within just keeping its head above women gained the vote in living memory), the report on water financially in 1919 and 1918 (and, staggeringly, a full the speech by the Guest of a Chronicle and Echo article 70 years before women were Honour, Harley Street surgeon from 1970 brandished the given the right to graduate Mr Vivian Green-Armytage, headline ‘School’s future in from Cambridge University). at the High School’s Awards doubt’ as the end of Direct And it is a remarkable Evening, records that he Grant threatened its very achievement for a girls’ school told his audience (of prize- existence.
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