Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, now known as Mount Holyoke College, stands as a monumental institution in the history of women ...

Psalms 144:12. On February 11, 1836, the Massachusetts legislature granted a charter for the founding of Mount Holyoke Seminary, thus making the present-day college in South Hadley the oldest ...

Why? Mount Holyoke was founded in 1837 as a Congregational seminary, and until World War II, Mount Holyoke girls were generally looked upon, in the words of one sophomore, as being "religious and ...

Western College for Women, a private liberal arts institution began as the Western Female Seminary in Oxford, Ohio in 1853. The Seminary was modeled after Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in ...

Among the options considered were bequests to Amherst College (Reverend Greene's alma mater) and to the nearby Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which—although not a full-fledged college—was already ...

Nature and the sciences fired Emily’s imagination as a student at Amherst College, after which she briefly attended the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Despite the institution’s religious slant ...

In 1837, Mary Lyon did the unthinkable. She founded the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later became Mount Holyoke Collegethe first of the Seven Sisters. Radical moves for a woman wearing a ...

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Jackson, who made history along with the congregation in July when she became the first female licensed and ... for two more years before attending Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley ...

HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – In Holyoke, the city’s fire department was sent to a brush fire at Mount Tom Sunday morning. Red Flag warning issued for Massachusetts after increase in brush fires ...