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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 ]
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 ...
Built in 1818, it is one of the region's finest examples of residential Federal period architecture. It is further notable for its association with pioneering women's educator Mary Lyon, who operated a school here before establishing Mount Holyoke College. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. [1]
The town is the home of the nation's first successful navigable canal [5] as well as the oldest continuing institution of higher education for women (Mount Holyoke College). The Civil War Monument (believed to be by Jerome Connor) [6] in the center of the Commons was given to South Hadley by William H. Gaylord in the 1900s. The Gaylords also ...
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 ...
Elizabeth Storrs Mead (née Billings; May 21, 1832 – March 25, 1917) was an American educator who was the 9th President of Mount Holyoke College from 1890 - 1900. She taught at Andover Seminary and Oberlin College, before becoming the first non-alumna president of Mount Holyoke.