The city, chartered in 1837, has three historic educational institutions: the first Finnish teachers' training college (founded 1863; replaced in 1934 by a pedagogical institute that in 1966 became a university); the Lyceum, the first Finnish-language secondary school (opened 1858); and the first Finnish girls' school (started 1864).
Finlandia University, an American college with Finnish roots, named their athletic center after Nurmi.
Even Torvalds, the young Finnish programmer who created Linux in his college dorm room in 1991, now collects a paycheck from a Beaverton, Ore .lab funded by Hewlett-Packard, IBM and others.
For decades, the Finnish government has offered free education all the way through college.
That was the fear of ebookers' office in Finland, which trained some Finnish students and sent them to work in Delhi during their college gap year.
Via Facebook and/or Twitter I hooked up with a French photographer, and Indian college professor, several journalists, a Swedish riding instructor, a Finnish Wagnerian, the director of a Brazilian nature reserve, and a Portuguese philosopher, and I had excellent dinner with a male feminist in Amsterdam.
In recent years this Finnish choreographer's group has graced the stages of the Joyce, Bard College and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The Finnish version made my two-year master's degree in elementary education, through a non-selective college in the Boston area, look quite humble.
The SummerScape festival, set on the bucolic campus of Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, will open with an evening of dances by the innovative Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen.
