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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 ]
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
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.
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 ...
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
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).
Henrietta Edgecomb Hooker (December 12, 1851 – May 13, 1929) was an American botanist and professor at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College).She was the second female doctoral graduate in botany at Syracuse University, [1] which made her one of the first women to earn a Ph.D. in botany from any U.S. university.
[1] [5] Her efforts established connections between scientists at Mount Holyoke College and the broader scientific community, as she was able to secure "various distinguished visiting professors" for the school. [2] Shattuck and founder Mary Lyon are considered "the two guiding forces in science" during the first fifty years of the school's ...