In 1916, two girls of wealthy families, best friends from Auburn, N. Y.—Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood—traveled to a settlement in the Rocky Mountains to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. The girls had gone to Smith College. They wore expensive clothes. So for them to move to Elkhead, Colo. to instruct the children whose shoes were held together with string was a surprise. Their stay in Elkhead is the subject of Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden, who is a magazine editor and Dorothy Woodruff’s granddaughter.

参考译文：在1916 年，两个来自纽约州奥本市的最好的朋友——多萝西·伍德拉夫和罗莎蒙德·安德伍德——两个来自富裕家庭的女孩前往落基山脉的一个定居点，在一所只有一间教室的学校里教书。女孩们上的是史密斯学院毕业生。他们穿着昂贵的衣服。因此，让她们搬到科罗拉多州的埃尔克黑德去指导那些用绳子把鞋子绑在一起的孩子们是一个惊喜。她们在埃尔克黑德的停留是无所畏惧的:《两个西方社会女孩的意外教育》的主题，多萝西·威肯登 是杂志编辑，也是多萝西·伍德拉夫的孙女。

The girls had gone to Smith College. 女孩上的是史密斯学院毕业生。

相当于“The girls had been educated in Smith College” 或者“The girls were educated in Smith College”

备注：以上“had gone to Smith”用过去完成时态表示“主语曾在史密斯学院接受完教育”

had gone to + 学校 = had attended + 学校