Dana Hall School was founded in 1881 by Henry Durant in the town of Wellesley, Massachusetts. It was originally meant as the preparatory school for Wellesley College, a women's college founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant. When Wellesley and Dana Hall were founded it was fairly rare for women of a certain economic class and above, and like now, neither school was for the poor or true middle classes, to work or have careers. I'm sure, that when wealthy parents sent their daughters off to Dana Hall and Wellesley, they were thinking about molding the perfect companion for the wealthy young men at nearby Harvard.
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