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The Glascock Poetry Prize is awarded to the winner of the annual Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest at Mount Holyoke College.The "invitation-only competition is sponsored by the English department at Mount Holyoke and counts many well-known poets, including Sylvia Plath and James Merrill, among its past winners" [1] and is thought to be the "oldest intercollegiate poetry ...
Mary McHenry, 1954 - professor of English credited with introducing African American literature to Mount Holyoke; Jane English, 1964 - physicist, translator, photographer; Dolores Hayden, 1966 - professor of architecture, urbanism, and American studies; Carolyn Collette, 1967 - professor of English; Karen E. Rowe, 1967 - English professor at UCLA
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.
Stevens taught English at the Mount Holyoke from 1881 to 1921; she held the rank of professor from 1904 to 1921, and was professor emeritus after she retired. She created the school's rhetoric department and served as chair of the English department. [4] [5]
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 ...
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He began his undergraduate studies at Earlham College, [2] where his father, Otto Theodor Benfey, was a professor in the Chemistry department, [1] and completed his B.A. at Guilford College. [2] Benfey holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. [2]
In later years, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and MAC—later known as Massachusetts State and UMass—increased their collaboration, culminating in the formation of an inter-library loaning program in 1951 and a joint astronomy department in 1959. Finally, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith and UMass incorporated the Four College Consortium, which ...