Founded in 1899, Miss Fine's School in Princeton prepared girls for college with a curriculum including English, French, Latin, history, and mathematics, at a time when women were not expected to attend college, and when only one out of eight children in America went to school at all. For years, the institution was, quite literally, "Miss Fine's" School; in addition to serving as Headmistress, taught all the subjects but French, maintained an individual interest in her students, and even "tended the furnace...often leaving in the middle of Latin class to do it."