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  2. Mount Holyoke College - Wikipedia

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    Mount Holyoke College is a private women's liberal arts college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States. [10] It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of historically female colleges in the Northeastern United States. [ 11 ]

  3. Timeline of women's colleges in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1851: Christian College (later Columbia College) was the first women's college west of the Mississippi River to be chartered by a state legislature. [14] 1851: Cherokee Female Seminary is the first institute of higher learning exclusively for women west of the Mississippi River. Along with the Cherokee Male Seminary, this was the first college ...

  4. Seven Sisters (colleges) - Wikipedia

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    In 1837, Lyon founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (Mount Holyoke College). [16] Mount Holyoke received its collegiate charter in 1888 and became Mount Holyoke Seminary and College. It became Mount Holyoke College in 1893. Vassar, however, was the first of the Seven Sisters to be chartered as a college in 1861.

  5. From homeschooling to Mount Holyoke, Emma Cate Duggar goes to ...

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    Emma Cate was accepted to Mount Holyoke, which is the first women’s college in the country founded in 1837. Emma Cate Duggar, 18, is passionate about love. In an essay, she said, "you're defined ...

  6. Mary Lyon - Wikipedia

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    Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s (1984) Porterfield, Amanda. Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries (1997) Sklar, Kathryn Kish. "The Founding of Mount Holyoke College," in Carol Ruth Berkin and Mary Beth Norton, eds. Women of America: A History (1979) pp 177–201

  7. Mary Emma Woolley - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Hamilton College, Lexington was founded in 1869 as Hocker Female College. a private women's college affiliated with the Disciples of Christ. Its name changed in 1878. In 1889, Kentucky University (later Transylvania University), bought a stake in the school, taking total control in 1903. Closed in 1932. John Lyle's Female Seminary (founded in ...

  9. List of Mount Holyoke College people - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Topham Kennan, 1960 - former president, Mount Holyoke College; Carol Geary Schneider, 1967 - president, Association of American Colleges and Universities; Nancy J. Vickers, 1967 - president, Bryn Mawr College; Elaine Tuttle Hansen, 1969 - president, Bates College; Lynn Pasquerella, 1980 - president, Mount Holyoke College