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Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States. [11] It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of historically female colleges in the Northeastern United States. [ 12 ]
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.
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
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 ...
1837: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in South Hadley, Massachusetts, is the oldest (and first) of the Seven Sisters 1837: Sharon Female College was a church college in Sharon, Mississippi .
Mary Phylinda Dole (August 31, 1862 – February 23, 1947) [1] was an American physician who practiced medicine in New England and was the first to earn a bachelor's degree at Mount Holyoke College. [2] She is thought to be the first female physician to have practiced at Franklin County Public Hospital, now known as Baystate Franklin Medical ...
Finally, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith and UMass incorporated the Four College Consortium, which became the Five College Consortium when Hampshire College was founded in 1965, and admitted its first entering class in 1970. [3] The five colleges operate both as independent entities as well as mutually dependent institutions.
Eunice Caldwell Cowles. Eunice Caldwell Cowles (February 4, 1811 – September 10, 1903) was an American educator who influenced hundreds of women in the U.S. and abroad. She was the first associate of Mary Lyon in the opening of Mount Holyoke Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College).