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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]
Hortense Parker, 1883 - daughter of African American abolitionist, John Parker and the first African American student to graduate from Mount Holyoke College; Alice Bradford Wiles, 1873 - Chicago clubwoman; Elizabeth Holloway Marston, 1915 - the inspiration for Wonder Woman [3] Ruth Muskrat Bronson, 1925 - poet, educator, Indian rights activist
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 ...
During her high school career, she met an admissions officer from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, [2] which she ultimately decided to attend. There, she got her degree in Economics and African Studies. [3] She later attended the London School of Economics for graduate studies and received her master's degree at Columbia University. [4]
Walter Anthony graduated magna cum laude from Mount Holyoke College (1998). [1] She has an M.Sc. in ecology from the University of California, Davis (2000) and a Ph.D. from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (2006).
Peterson was born and raised in Mumbai, India.She came to the United States as an AFS (American Field Service) exchange high school student in the late 1960s.She returned to Mumbai and received her B.A. in English literature from the University of Mumbai and her Ph.D. in Sanskrit from Harvard University in 1976.
She organized events at the observatory for Mount Holyoke students and in 1925 arranged for the student body to take the train to central Connecticut to observe the total solar eclipse. [4] In 1929, Young identified the comet 31P/Schwassmann–Wachmann with an object that had been misidentified as the minor planet "Adelaide" ( A904 EB ) in 1904 ...
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.