Talk:Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School

66.143.139.204's edits

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• You removed the mention of MICDS' academic tradition and where its graduates go. Why?
• You removed the description of Ladue as an affluent place; why? The wealth of MICDS and many of its students and alumni is central to the school's identity.Bbpen 17:43, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

"*You removed the description of Ladue as an affluent place; why? The wealth of MICDS and many of its students and alumni is central to the school's identity.Bbpen 17:43, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)"

I would challenge that. Yes, we do have people who are wealthy, but that doesn't define us. According to the phone book, only 42% of the population lives in Ladue. Seeing as MICDS doesn't receive local funding, taxes and income from taxes are irrelevent. Rich means nothing to the character of the school.Besides rich is an term with a changing definition, rich could be having twenty dollars, to some people and to others it would be 20 million dollars. The students are people, with brains, opinions, not a figure on a piece of paper. They won't stand to be characterized by the average income of the suburb their school is located in. The outside world seems to think that MICDS is only full of rich kids, but it's not true. They seem to think we all own yatchs and mansions, when only 1 person in the entire school actually does. Get your facts straight. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.230.186.200 (talk) 01:41, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

70.246.194.255's edits

Hi, 70.246.194.255. Your user contribs page seems to indicate you're new to Wikipedia, so let me welcome you to editorship by noting that reversions are customarily accompanied by a bit of explanation. Let's talk about things before you revert my edits again.

• You've removed the sentence about the school rivalry; why?
• You've removed the description of Ladue as an affluent place; why? The wealth of MICDS and many of its students and alumni is central to the school's identity.
• You've changed:

"It was the only prep school west of the Mississippi to be listed in 1980's The Official Preppy Handbook."

to

"However, in the 1980s it may have been most famous for its listing in the The Official Preppy Handbook."

This replaces a simple declaration of facts with fewer facts and more speculation. Why? Bbpen 22:24, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Source?

Could someone supply citations for:

• "St. Louis Country Day was the only high school ever to have three alumni serving simultaneously in the United States Senate."
  • Semi-done...their dates of office are on their respective pages, so its fairly trivial to find a specific citation, but I don't know about the only part. Clarkefreak ∞ 02:16, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
  • This is actually false. Senators Schumer of New York, Coleman of Minnesota, and Sanders of Vermont all attended and graduated from James Madison High School in Brooklyn, New York http://www.nysun.com/new-york/school-for-senators-turns-up-in-brooklyn/43324/. Based on this evidence, I am removing this falsity from the page. Jmole (talk) 02:16, 3 June 2008 (UTC) (After further review, it seems that this has already been removed.)
    • • You are wrong. At the time they were the only high school. Look at congressional records: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2009-10-29/html/CREC-2009-10-29-pt1-PgS10912-3.htm. I think you should put it back. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.164.143.178 (talk) 03:40, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

• "It was also known for its excellent athletic teams." Bbpen 19:47, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
  • You cannot possibly supply sources for opinionated words like excellent. Jmole (talk) 03:49, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

William Greenleaf Elliot not Wilhelm Greenford Eliot

It was William Greenleaf Eliot that co-founded Washington University, not Wilhelm Greenford Eliot. William GreenleAf Eliot not Greenleef as is currently shown. Probably student mischief. Needs to be corrected.

Girls' School

I'm removing the part that says Mary I was the first girls' school west of the Appalachians. Sacred Heart in St Charles (there's no page; it's coed now, but that's a recent [1970s] development) was founded in 1818. Visitation Academy of St. Louis was founded in 1833, and moved to St Louis in 1844. And that's just St Louis-area. I don't even know about Chicago. Joliefille 09:50, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

I believe, generally, that the claim is that Mary Institute was the first girls' school west of the Mississippi. Although that would discredit places like Chicago, I have never seen this claim being sourced. It seems like mythology to me. Jmole (talk) 18:47, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

William McChesney Martin, Jr.

Just noticed he's listed as an alumnus of MICDS -- there's a source on the Soldan High School page that says he graduated from there. So, did he go to MICDS or Soldan? poroubalous (talk) 00:58, 1 January 2012 (UTC) Robert Bremner's biography of Martin says (on page 15) that "Martin graduated public high school at the age of 16. Martin Sr. considered him too young for college and signed him up for an additional two years at Country Day School, a local private school."

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