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Liberal arts college in Massachusetts, US

Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College seal.svg

Former names

 Mountain Holyoke Female Seminary
Motto That our daughters may be equally corner stones, polished later the similitude of a palace — Psalms 144:12
Blazon Private women's college
Established Seminary, 1837 (seminary charter, 1836)
Seminary and higher, (collegiate charter) 1888
College, 1893
Accreditation NECHE

Bookish affiliations
  • NAICU[1]
  • AICUM
  • CIC
  • Annapolis Group
  • Oberlin Group
  • CLAC
  • Vii Sisters
  • V College Consortium
  • Space-grant
Endowment $789.0 million (2020)[2]
President Sonya Stephens
Dean Marcella Runell Hall

Bookish staff

 279 (fall 2019)[three]
Students 2,300 (fall 2019)[four]
Undergraduates ii,190 (fall 2019)[4]
Postgraduates 110 (fall 2019)[4]
Location

South Hadley, Massachusetts

,

U.S.


42°xv′20″Northward 72°34′28″W  /  42.2556°N 72.5745°Due west  / 42.2556; -72.5745 Coordinates: 42°xv′20″N 72°34′28″W  /  42.2556°N 72.5745°West  / 42.2556; -72.5745
Campus Rural, 2,000 acres (810 ha), academic campus: ane,000 acres (400 ha)
Colors Blueish and white[5]
Nickname Lyons

Sporting affiliations

 NCAA Division 3
NEWMAC, Liberty League (golf)
Mascot Paws the King of beasts (Official)[six]
Jorge the Goose (Unofficial)[7]
Website www.mtholyoke.edu
Mount Holyoke College logo.svg

Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts historically women's college in Due south Hadley, Massachusetts. It is the oldest member of the celebrated Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite historically women'southward colleges in the Northeastern United states of america.[viii]

The college was founded in 1837 equally the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary past Mary Lyon, a pioneer in education for women. A model upon which many other women'southward colleges were patterned, it is the oldest institution inside the Seven Sisters schools, an alliance of Due east Coast liberal arts colleges that was originally created to provide women with educational activity equivalent to that provided in the then men-only Ivy League.[9] Mount Holyoke is role of the region's Five College Consortium, forth with Amherst Higher, Smith Higher, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst: through this membership, students are allowed to take courses at any other member institution.

Undergraduate admissions are restricted to female, transgender, and nonbinary students.[ten] In 2014, information technology became the commencement fellow member of the Seven Sisters to introduce an admissions policy that was inclusive to transgender students.[11] However, all graduate programs are open to applicants regardless of gender. Unlike the open curriculums of the other liberal arts schools in the V Higher Consortium, Mount Holyoke undergraduates are required to take at least one class each in the humanities, science or mathematics, social sciences, and foreign language, as well as a concrete teaching requirement.

The college's 800-acre (3.two kmtwo) campus includes the Mount Holyoke Higher Art Museum, the John Payson Williston Observatory, and a botanic garden, and awards the Glascock Prize annually. Alumni and affiliates include notable poets, authors, feminists, academics, entertainers, scientists, politicians, and civil rights activists, besides every bit recipients of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Olympic Gold Medal, Rhodes Scholarship, Emmy Laurels, Gold Globe, and University Award.

History [edit]

Mary Lyon ivory miniature

Mountain Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837

Mount Holyoke was founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon every bit Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Lyon is considered to take been an innovator in women'due south education.[12] Mountain Holyoke Female Seminary was one of several Christian institutions of higher instruction for young women established during the first half of the 19th century. Lyon's contemporaries include Sarah Pierce (Litchfield Female Academy, 1792); Catharine Beecher (Hartford Female person Seminary, 1823); Zilpah P. Grant Banister (Ipswich Female Seminary, 1828); and George Washington Doane (St. Mary'southward Hall, 1837 now chosen Doane Academy). Prior to founding Mountain Holyoke, Lyon contributed to the development of both Hartford Female Seminary and Ipswich Female Seminary. She was also involved in the creation of Wheaton Female Seminary (now Wheaton College) in 1834.[12] Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was chartered as a teaching seminary in 1836[13] and opened its doors to students on 8 Nov 1837. Both Vassar College and Wellesley College were patterned after Mountain Holyoke.[xiv]

According to historian Amanda Porterfield, Lyon created Mount Holyoke to be "a religious institution that offered a model of Christian club for all to see."[15] Students "were required to nourish church building services, chapel talks, prayer meetings, and Bible report groups. Twice a day teachers and students spent fourth dimension in private devotions. Every dorm room had two large lighted closets to give roommates privacy during their devotions".[16] Mountain Holyoke Female Seminary was the sister school to Andover Seminary. Some Andover graduates looked to ally students from the Mountain Holyoke Female Seminary before becoming Christian missionaries because the American Lath of Commissioners for Strange Missions (ABCFM) required its missionaries to be married before starting their missions. Past 1859 at that place were more than 60 missionary alumnae; by 1887 the school's alumnae comprised one fifth of all female American missionaries for the ABCFM; and by the end of the century, 248 of its alumnae had entered the mission field.[17]

Collegiate lease [edit]

Mount Holyoke Female Seminary received its collegiate charter in 1888, condign Mountain Holyoke Seminary and Higher. The modify in admission from Seminary to College included fundraising by the trustees, an overhaul of the archway requirements, and form catalogue. Entrance exams were introduced at this fourth dimension, scheduled in June or September at the college. In 1889, students traveling from the midwest could accept these examinations in Freeport, Illinois, and inside a few years, this was expanded to other cities. Many additions were made to the course itemize, and starting in the 1889 academic twelvemonth, students could choose to pursue degrees of Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science.[18] Within 4 years, the seminary enrollment dropped from 269 to eight. In 1893, the seminary course was discontinued, and the new title Mount Holyoke College was authorized.[18]

Cottage-style living [edit]

A movement towards what was referred to every bit cottage-manner living started in 1889 by the New York Clan[xix] after the change to Mount Holyoke Seminary and Higher. $15,000 was raised, and plans were put in identify for Mary Brigham Cottage, with accommodations for the president and thirty students, with priority given to those in the collegiate course. At the time, two Southward Hadley families agreed to host boarders, and some students were permitted to live at the hotel. President Elizabeth Mead deemed both of these options unsatisfactory, and pushed the trustees to build yet another cottage. Mrs. Mead was ready to salvage the students of a big share of the drudgery of domestic work that had made up a expert portion of their studies since Mary Lyon's conception of the seminary. From 1895 to 1996 the trustees allotted funds for the employment of four women to launder the dinner dishes that had formerly constituted the task of eight or ten students.[eighteen]

On February 28, 1987, the United States Postal Service's Corking Americans series issued a postage featuring Mary Lyon, in honor of Mount Holyoke's Sesquicentennial (Mount Holyoke's 150th ceremony).[20] [21]

Phi Beta Beta chapter [edit]

The Mount Holyoke chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was established in 1905. It has been a sis school to Women's Christian College in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Republic of india since 1920.

Debate on condign co-educational [edit]

In the early 1970s Mount Holyoke had a long debate under the presidency of David Truman over the issue of coeducation. On 6 November 1971 the board of trustees voted to remain a women's college.[22]

Admission of transgender students [edit]

At Convocation on September 2, 2014, President Lynn Pasquerella announced a new policy allowing the access of transgender individuals of both sexes to the college,[23] every bit well every bit the admission of students whose gender identities are non-binary.[24] It was the showtime Seven Sister College to implement such policy.[25]

Admissions [edit]

The 2020 almanac ranking past U.Southward. News & World Study categorizes Mount Holyoke as "more selective".[26]

For the Course of 2023 (enrolling fall 2019), Mount Holyoke received 3,908 applications, accepted ane,491 (38.2%) and enrolled 496.[27] The eye fifty% range of Sat scores for enrolled students was 1320–1450 for the blended, 630–720 for evidence-based reading and writing, and 640–770 for math, while the middle 50% range for the Human action composite score was 27–32.[27]

For the nigh recent class of 2025 (enrolling autumn 2021) there were 3,971 applications, Mount Holyoke accepted 2,077 (43.eight%). The middle range of SAT scores for the grade of 2025 in critical reading was 670-750, for math was 640-760. For the Human activity the mean test score was 32. 50% of the accepted form was in the superlative 10% of their loftier school class rank and 72% was in the top 20. Regarding demographics, 30% of accepted students were from New England (the highest percentage) with the everyman per centum being 4% from the Southwest. The class of 2025 represents 39 states in total. Lastly, 21% were of international residence with a total of 41 foreign countries existence represented. <https://world wide web.mtholyoke.edu/access/class_profile>

Rankings [edit]

Academic rankings
Liberal arts colleges
U.Due south. News & Globe Report [28] 34
Washington Monthly [29] 42

U.S. News & Globe Report 's 2021 rankings ranked Mount Holyoke the 34th-all-time liberal arts college in the nation, and tied for 30th for "Best Undergraduate Teaching".[thirty] Kiplinger's Personal Finance places the school 37th in its 2017 ranking of best-value liberal arts colleges in the United States.[31] In 2020, The Princeton Review ranked Mount Holyoke's kinesthesia #one in the nation,[32] and ranked it #one in the list of the Height xx Best Schools for Making an Bear upon.[33]

Mount Holyoke Higher is accredited by the New England Committee of Higher Education.[34]

Academics [edit]

Undergraduate programs [edit]

Mount Holyoke offers l departmental and interdepartmental majors, including the pick to pattern a special major. The primary degree conferred is the Available of Arts (BA) degree, for which students complete 128 semester credits (i standard course equals 4 credits). At least 68 credits must be earned from class work exterior the major department, across the 3 curricular divisions: humanities, science and mathematics, and social sciences. Study of a strange language and completion of a multicultural perspectives course are also required.[35]

Mountain Holyoke's membership in the Five College Consortium allows students to enroll in courses at nearby Amherst College, Smith College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They may likewise complete one of 12 Five Higher Certificates—amidst them African studies, Buddhist studies, coastal and marine sciences, cognitive neuroscience, international relations, and Heart Eastern studies—in lieu of a minor.[36]

Graduate programs [edit]

The scale target for the NASA'south Mars Curiosity rover ChemCam; adult by MHC professor of astronomy Darby Dyar, the instrument is made of heterogenous ceramics similar to those expected on Mars,[37] Dyar and her squad have received multiple grants for analyzing Martian geology with this instrumentation[38]

In addition to the BA, Mount Holyoke offers three principal'due south degrees: a coed Master of Arts in Education,[39] a Principal of Arts in mathematics teaching,[xl] and a master'south in psychology.[41] Other programs include dual-degree programs in engineering with the California Institute of Technology, the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst;[42] the Frances Perkins Program,[43] for women over the historic period of 24 who wish to complete the requirements for a Available of Arts degree; and the Postbaccalaureate Studies Programme,[44] for students who have already earned an undergraduate caste and wish to consummate additional course work in grooming for graduate work in medicine, nursing, veterinarian medicine, dentistry, or physical therapy science.

Bookish centers and programs [edit]

Iii academic centers—the Weissman Center for Leadership,[45] the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives,[46] the Miller Worley Center for the Surround[47]—support the bookish program through public lectures by visiting scholars, conferences on issues of pressing business organization, mentoring and internship opportunities, and hands-on learning experiences. The Weissman Center's Speaking, Arguing, and Writing (SAW) Programme[48] provides opportunities for developing leadership and communication skills, including the power to finer frame, articulate, and advocate positions. The Community-Based Learning Plan[49] links students with community-based organizations in courses that combine analysis and action.

Study abroad [edit]

Mount Holyoke has study abroad programs and exchanges for full-year or semester study in France, Senegal, Republic of costa rica, Chile, Hong Kong, Nippon, South korea, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom, besides as a summer program in Prc and January term programs in Georgia and Due south Africa. The college is also affiliated with more than than 150 study abroad programs in more than 50 colleges and students have the opportunity to petition any programs with which the college is not already affiliated. The college too encourages international internships and research for semester, yr, summer or January terms. Each year more than than 200 Mount Holyoke students, representing approximately 40 percent of the inferior class, study for a semester or academic year at universities and programs abroad.[50]

Twelve college exchange plan [edit]

Through the school's membership in the Twelve Higher Commutation Plan, Mount Holyoke students can written report at one of the following 12 other schools for 1 semester or a total yr:[51]

  • Amherst College
  • Bowdoin College
  • Connecticut Higher
  • Dartmouth Higher
  • O'Neill National Theatre Found
  • Smith Higher
  • Trinity College
  • Vassar College
  • Wellesley Higher
  • Wesleyan Academy
  • Wheaton College
  • Williams/Mystic Seaport Program in Maritime Studies

Library [edit]

Williston Library, Mountain Holyoke College, South Hadley MA

Mount Holyoke's library includes more than 740,000 impress volumes, 1,600 periodicals, and more than than 140,000 electronic resources. Its first librarian was alumna Mary Nutting. Through the Five College Consortium, students have access to more than than 9 million volumes.[52] Computer support is provided.[53] The MEWS (Mediated Educational Piece of work Infinite) supports collaborative multimedia learning with group project rooms, wall-mounted plasma displays, a digitization centre, and a faculty development surface area.[54] In 2013, "Clear and Gilt Tower," a glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly, was installed in the Williston Library'southward atrium.[55]

Faculty [edit]

A number of faculty are nationally and internationally recognized for their enquiry and writing achievements, including Christopher Benfey (literary scholar), Joseph Ellis (historian), Susan Barry (neurobiologist), Mark McMenamin (geologist and paleontologist) and Becky Wai-Ling Packard (psychologist).

Attempted murder of kinesthesia member [edit]

Mount Holyoke administrator and art professor Rie Hachiyanagi made international headlines when she was charged with the attempted murder of a regular fellow member of the faculty on 23 December 2019.[56] [57] Hachiyanagi allegedly used a fire poker, large rock, and a gardening shears to endeavour to beat and kill her victim.[58] [59] Hachiyanagi's alleged victim survived the attack.[threescore] Hachiyanagi pled guilty to the charges and on October 20, 2021, was sentenced to a term of x to 12 years in prison house.[61]

Campus [edit]

The main campus gate on College St

John Payson Williston Observatory, Mount Holyoke College, ca. 1945–1955

Seminary Building, Mount Holyoke Female person Seminary, viewed from the southwest, South Hadley, Massachusetts, 1886

The 800-acre (3.2 kmtwo) campus was designed and landscaped betwixt 1896 and 1922 by the mural architecture firm of Olmsted and Sons. The campus includes a botanic garden, ii lakes, several waterfalls, tennis courts, stables and woodland riding trails. Information technology is also home to the Mountain Holyoke Higher Art Museum which is function of the Five College Museums/Historic Deerfield and the Museums10. An contained bookstore, The Odyssey Bookshop, is located directly across from the campus in the college-owned Hamlet Commons.[62] Mountain Holyoke has instituted "The Large Turn Off" energy conservation entrada.[63] It also focuses on "light-green" building with v LEED certified buildings on campus.[64] Information technology has reduced its environmental impact past recycling twoscore% of waste product and composting as well as using produce grown in the student-run organic garden in dining halls.[65]

The Seminary Building (1837) independent classrooms, parlors and rooms for students and kinesthesia, the original library, and a journal reading room. A s fly was added in 1841, a north wing in 1853, a gymnasium and laundry in 1865. All were destroyed by fire in 1896.[66] Upon the burning of the college building in September 1896, Treasurer Williston announced the pressing need for a new chapel building, a new gymnasium, and a serial of cottage dormitories in the modern manner.[18] This style of separated buildings immune for a flexibility of fundraising that was attractive to the trustees, while still providing the students with the resources and accommodations they needed. In 1897, Mary Lyon Hall and Mary Lyon Chapel were built, every bit well as dormitories Brigham, Safford, Porter, and Pearsons. Blanchard Gymnasium was completed in 1899.[67]

John Payson Williston Observatory (1881) was given in memory of the Willistons' eldest son and congenital to be set for the rare transit of Venus in 1882. It is the oldest academic building on campus.[68]

The school's iconic entrance, the Fidelia Nash Field gate, was dedicated in 1912. It was a gift of its namesake's children Helen Field James and Joseph Nash Field. Their brother Marshall Field had died in 1906.

The home of Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, known as "The Sycamores", served equally a dormitory for the higher from 1915 to 1970.[69] [70] The mansion, built in 1788 by Colonel Woodbridge, is on the National Annals of Historic Places.

Mount Holyoke is as well close to the cities of Amherst and Northampton every bit well equally to two malls: Hampshire Mall and Holyoke Mall. The Mount Holyoke Range Land Park is besides close to the campus. The higher is named after the westernmost mountain of the range Mount Holyoke which was named by colonial surveyors in the 1600s.

Mount Holyoke is consistently named on "Well-nigh Cute College Campuses" lists, including The Huffington Post,[71] The Princeton Review,[72] and Architectural Assimilate. [73] Its buildings were designed between 1896 and 1960. Information technology has a Donald Ross-designed 18-hole golf course, The Orchards, which hosted the U.S. Women's Open up in 2004.[74]

Dormitories [edit]

The college has 21 residence halls as well as apartments and "annex" spaces in which to house students, and an overwhelming bulk of students live on campus (98%). Each residence hall reserves a quarter of its rooms for housing outset-year students[75] with the exception of Pearsons Annex, which is reserved for living learning communities,[76] and Dickinson Business firm, which is reserved for Frances Perkins Scholars.[77] Most residence halls house students from all four class years at any given time. In Jan 2018, Mount Holyoke opened a new centralized dining commons within the previously existing Blanchard Customs Center. Previously, vi dormitories on campus had dining areas inside of them, merely the plan to consolidate these into one dining hall was made then that the college could shift to accept an unlimited meal plan and offer extended hours.[78] Residence halls have a variety of architectural styles and ages.

Organization [edit]

Mount Holyoke is a member of the Pioneer Valley's Five College Consortium,[79] the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges,[fourscore] the Annapolis Group,[81] the Oberlin Grouping,[82] and the Consortium on Financing Higher Educational activity.[83]

WMHC (91.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Southward Hadley, Massachusetts. The station is owned by Mount Holyoke Higher and is one of the oldest stations run by women.[84]

Students [edit]

In 2019, Mountain Holyoke's ii,190 undergraduates included 1,021 White students, 587 international students, 183 Asian American students, 162 Latina students, 102 African American students, 2 Native American students, and 96 multiracial students.[85]

Students may enroll in classes at Amherst, Hampshire, and Smith Colleges too equally the Academy of Massachusetts, Amherst through the V College Consortium.

Student groups [edit]

Mountain Holyoke offers a number of educatee groups and organizations. Themes include Art, Academics, Club Sports, Entertainment & the Performing Arts, Politics & Activism, Governing Organizations and Religious organizations.[86]

Traditions [edit]

It is a tradition to requite incoming Freshmen a plant from the Talcott Greenhouse.[ commendation needed ]

Mount Holyoke Class Colors [edit]

Mount Holyoke classes have been voting on class colors and mascots since the late 1800s, simply the colors currently in use were not adopted until 1901.[87] The form of 1901 chose hunter dark-green, and the classes of 1902, '03, '04 voted for cerise, golden yellow, and royal blue, respectively. In 1909, the students voted for panthera leo, griffin, sphinx, and pegasus as their class symbols.[87] They also decided that even-year classes would use pegasus and lion and their colors would be cherry and blue, and odd years would use griffin and sphinx, with greenish and yellow every bit their colors.[87] This system has persisted to this day. Each class proudly displays their class color at class-related activities such as Convocation.[87]

Events [edit]

  • The Kathryn Irene Glascock Awards grants The Glascock Prize to the winner of this almanac event (which has been held at Mount Holyoke since 1924).[88]
  • The Faculty Testify takes place once every four years, around one April; faculty members create a show which parodies themselves and their students.[89]
  • The Junior Prove (likewise known as J-Show) refers to a show created by Juniors (and a few professors) who parody life at Mount Holyoke. A common characteristic is a sketch mocking the president and dean of the college, along with well-known professors.[ninety]
  • Mountain Day begins with the sound of ringing bells from Abbey Chapel on a cute fall morning secretly called by the president of the college and all classes are canceled for the day and many students hike to the summit of nearby Mount Holyoke.[91] [92]
  • Holiday Vespers is an annual Christmas concert that has been held each twelvemonth since 1899.[93] In addition to the free performance held on campus in Abbey Chapel, each year the students perform in either Boston or New York City.
  • Yard&Cs, originally chosen Milk & Crackers, is now referred to equally Milk & Cookies.[94] M&Cs are a nightly snack provided by dormitory dining halls, but besides refer to a student a cappella grouping, M&Cs (Milk and Cookies). [95]
  • Big/Little Sibling is a reference to the pairing of juniors and "firsties" (or first-years) who are paired upwardly to accept part in organized events together. Coordinated by the junior course board.[96]
  • Pangy Solar day, originally chosen Pangynaskeia, has been a springtime tradition at Mountain Holyoke for decades, but its origin is not totally clear.[97] Information technology's about jubilant spring after a long winter, and festivities including music, games, face-painting, ice cream, and more have identify.[98]
  • Elfing is a tradition shared between sophomores and first-years. Hole-and-corner sophomore "elves" get out presents and treats for their first-years throughout the calendar week-long event. On the final day, the get-go-years get to meet their elves in person at a special K&Cs.
  • Founder'southward Day is held on the Sunday closest to 8 Nov (the date of the opening of Mount Holyoke in 1837). It was begun past Elizabeth Storrs Mead in 1891. The current version of the tradition includes ice foam being served early in the morning about Mary Lyon'due south grave. The current president of the college and select faculty are invited to scoop ice cream for the senior class who dons their gowns.[99] [100]
  • Convocation is a spirited celebration of community marking the beginning of the academic year. All students attend wearing their class colors, and seniors wearable their graduation gowns to celebrate the start of their final yr.[101]
  • Canoe Sing is an event which takes identify prior to starting time in which canoes are decorated with lanterns and paddled by seniors singing Mount Holyoke songs. They are joined by fellow graduating seniors on shore.
  • Baccalaureate is held in Abbey Chapel; the medieval High german ode to Academe, "Gaudeamus Igitur" is sung by berobed Seniors and Faculty during the procession. Post-obit convocation, Kinesthesia line the path to Mary Lyon's grave. Seniors walk through this throng, to the grave (to place a wreath). The Baccalaureate Ceremony is a celebration that honors members of the graduating class. This traditional ceremony is for seniors only and holds a deep pregnant: students are given a terminal charge and hear from their selected faculty and fellow classmates. Academic regalia including cap is worn.
  • The Laurel Parade takes place the day before kickoff. Graduating seniors wear white and carry laurel garlands, in a parade to Mary Lyon'south grave. They are escorted past approximately 3,000 alumnae, besides in white, who thereby welcome them into the Alumnae Association. Once at Mary Lyon'due south grave, the garland is wound around the bandage-iron fence, and the Mimi Fariña song "Breadstuff and Roses" is sung by all in attendance. White is a tribute to those who fought for women's suffrage.[102] In 1970 students voted to supersede the laurel with signs protesting the Vietnam State of war.[103]

Athletics [edit]

Mountain Holyoke offers thirteen varsity sports programs and six competitive club sports teams. The college is a fellow member of the National Collegiate Athletic Clan (NCAA) Division III and the New England Women'south and Men's Able-bodied Conference (NEWMAC) also every bit the New England Rowing Briefing (NERC).[104] Facilities include a lighted synthetic multipurpose turf field surrounded by an 8-lane runway with a 9-lane straightaway; Kendall Sports and Trip the light fantastic Complex housing a swimming puddle and separate diving well; gymnasium with basketball game, volleyball, and badminton courts; weight room; cardiovascular area; one-acre (4,000 yard2) field business firm with indoor track and tennis courts; squash courts; racquetball courts; and three studios for trip the light fantastic toe, aerobics, yoga, and other activities; The Orchards, an eighteen-hole golf course (home to the 2004 U.S. Women'southward Open) designed by Donald Ross; and a 60-stall equestrian center with two indoor arenas (100' × 256' and 70' × 130'), an outdoor show ring, permanent fibar dressage loonshit, outdoor cantankerous-state courses, and a boathouse finished for Leap 2010.[105]

Notable people [edit]

  • Lucy Stone, prominent abolitionist and suffragist, founder of the Women's Journal, showtime woman from Massachusetts to earn a higher degree

  • Emily Dickinson, poet considered to be ane of the near important figures in American literature

In pop culture [edit]

Literature [edit]

  • Wendy Wasserstein's 1977 play, Uncommon Women and Others, is based upon Wasserstein's experiences at Mount Holyoke of the early 1970s. The play explores the lives of the fictional characters Carter, Holly, Kate, Leilah, Rita, Muffet, Samantha, and Susie as they gather for tiffin five years after graduation and reminisce about their collegiate days. The play was adjusted into a tv set movie starring a and then-unknown Meryl Streep.[106]
  • In Tayari Jones's 2011 novel, Silverish Sparrow, the 2 protagonists, Dana and Chaurisse, apply to Mount Holyoke College.

Film [edit]

Several feature films reference Mount Holyoke. Prominent among them are:

  • Dirty Dancing (1987), which is set at a summer resort in the Catskills in the summer of 1963. The protagonist, Frances "Baby" Houseman (named afterward Mount Holyoke graduate Frances Perkins), plans to attend Mount Holyoke in the autumn to study economic science of underdeveloped countries and then after to enter the Peace Corps. The film is screened annually for prospective first-year students.[107]
  • National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), which is set in 1962. Information technology satirizes a common practice up until the mid-1970s, when women attention Seven Sister colleges were connected with, or to, students at Ivy League schools. In the film, fraternity brothers from Delta house of the fictional Faber College (based on Dartmouth College[108]) take a road trip to the fictional Emily Dickinson College (Mount Holyoke Higher).[109] [110]

Television [edit]

An urban fable says that the characters of the striking 1960'due south cartoon Scooby Doo Where Are You lot! are said to be modeled after the Five Higher Consortium. Scooby Doo is meant to be University of Massachusetts Amherst, Shaggy is Hampshire, Fred is Amherst, Daphne is Mount Holyoke and Velma is Smith. These characterizations are made under the assumptions of stereotypes of the students from the Five Colleges.[111]

Humor [edit]

  • A 1968 article in the Columbia University student newspaper Columbia Daily Spectator repeated a line from the 1964 movie Sex and the College Girl: "Smith to bed, Mount Holyoke to wednesday". This referred to the reputation of students from the two Seven Sisters Colleges.[112] In the 1980s, Mount Holyoke students launched a entrada against a dating volume and article written by two Princeton graduates that tell men how to choice upward female students at women'due south colleges. Under the "Pickup Strategy" category, the article states: '"Depression Primal. Call back the Smith maxim, 'Holyoke to bed; Smith to midweek.''[113]
  • The Mount Holyoke vocal, "We're Saving Ourselves For Yale", alludes to the Ivy League-Seven Sisters human relationship, which amusingly relates tales of women who hold onto their virginity long enough to catch a Yale graduate to marry. The song features prominently in Wendy Wasserstein'south "Uncommon Women and Others."[114] [115] [116]

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Further reading [edit]

  • Harwarth, Irene B. "A Closer Expect at Women's Colleges." National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Learning, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Didactics, 1999.
  • Harwarth, Irene B., Mindi Maline and Elizabeth DeBra. "Women'southward Colleges in the United states of america: History, Issues, and Challenges: Executive Summary." U.S. Section of Instruction National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Learning.
  • Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s, Amherst: Academy of Massachusetts Press, 1993 (2nd edition).
  • Turpin, Andrea Fifty (2010). "The Ideological Origins of the Women's Higher: Organized religion, Class, and Curriculum in the Educational Visions of Catharine Beecher and Mary Lyon". History of Education Quarterly. l (ii): 133–58. doi:10.1111/j.1748-5959.2010.00257.ten.

External links [edit]

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