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Mount Holyoke was founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. [15] Lyon developed her ideas on how to educate women when she was assistant principal at Ipswich Female Seminary in Massachusetts. By 1837 she had convinced multiple sponsors to support her ideals and the nation's first real college for women.
Mount Holyoke, a traprock mountain, elevation 935 feet (285 m), is the westernmost peak of the Holyoke Range and part of the 100-mile (160 km) Metacomet Ridge. The mountain is located in the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts , and is the namesake of nearby Mount Holyoke College .
By 1901, Mount Holyoke was the only women's college with the system still in place and Woolley thought the system was old fashioned and an obstacle in her goal of making Mount Holyoke intellectually equal to male colleges. She also created a position for Jeanette Marks, who taught English and Theater at Mount Holyoke until her retirement in 1941.
Her inspirational words in the essay, has earned her a $277,720 scholarship over four years to Mount Holyoke College, in South Hadley, Massachusetts. According to the school's website , the ...
The consortium was founded in 1915 when Vassar President Henry Noble MacCracken called Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, and Mount Holyoke together “to deliver women opportunities for higher education that would improve the quality of life for the human family and that would put them on an equal footing with men in a democracy that was about to offer them the vote.” [3] The success of this Four ...
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Abby Howe Turner, 1896 - founded Mount Holyoke's department of physiology; Caroline Ransom Williams, 1896 - first female Egyptologist in North America; Margaret Morse Nice, 1905 - ornithologist; Alzada Comstock, 1910 - economics professor; Mildred Sanderson, 1910 - mathematician; Louise Freeland Jenkins, 1911 - astronomer
Moodle (/ ˈ m uː d əl / MOO-dəl) is a free and open-source learning management system written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. [3] [4] Moodle is used for blended learning, distance education, flipped classroom and other online learning projects in schools, universities, workplaces and other sectors. [5] [6] [7]