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The name Seven Sisters is a reference to the Greek myth of the Pleiades, goddesses immortalized as stars in the sky: [1] Maia, Electra, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope, and Merope. [2] These colleges were created in the 19th century to provide women with the educational equivalent to the historically all-male Ivy League colleges.
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Seven Sisters may refer to: Pleiades, ... Seven Sisters (colleges), the name given to seven US liberal arts colleges that are historically women's colleges;
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]
Bryn Mawr College (/ ˌ b r ɪ n ˈ m ɑː r / brin-MAR; Welsh: [ˌbɾɨ̞nˈmau̯ɾ]) [9] is a private women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States.Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of historically women's colleges in the United States.
None of the coordinate colleges were investor-owned. [1] [2] Some, but not all, of the Seven Sisters can be classified as coordinate colleges with a specific originally male-only partner school. However, as a group, they have maintained an equivalent association with the Ivy League schools, conference-to-conference. [3]
Vassar was the second of the Seven Sisters colleges, higher education schools that were strictly for women, and historically sister institutions to the all-male Ivy League colleges. It was chartered by its namesake, brewer Matthew Vassar, in 1861 in the Hudson Valley, about 70 miles (110 km) north of New York City.
Seven Sisters (colleges) — historically women's colleges founded as an answer to the (at the time) all male Ivy League: Wellesley College, Radcliffe College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, Barnard College, Vassar College, and Bryn Mawr College.