Mount Holyoke College
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The Mount Holyoke College is a highly selective, private liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was founded on November 8, 1837 by Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, is the first of the Seven Sisters and the oldest existing women-only university in the world. Mount Holyoke is also one of the five colleges in the Pioneer Valley, next to Amherst College, Smith College, Hampshire College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The college has approximately 2,100 students and 200 faculty members.
- 3.1 lecturers
- 3.2 graduates
History
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (1837-1888)
Mary Lyon was among the pioneers who demanded education for women. She was involved in 1834 in the founding of Wheaton Female Seminary (now Wheaton College), founded two years later, the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary and was its first president. She was an advocate of a very strict teaching environment and ordered a 16 -hour day for the students, who began by 5 clock in the morning and the evening ended at 21:15 clock. They also believed in the importance of daily physical exercises for women and demanded that their students each after breakfast one mile ( 1.6 km ) to run. Although the seminar had no religious affiliation, demanded of their students but the daily visit of worship, prayer meetings and Bible study groups.
1888 to today
The Mount Holyoke Female Seminary received a college charter in 1888 and became the Mount Holyoke Seminary and College. In 1893 she was renamed Mount Holyoke College.
In the early 1970s there were at college a long debate about the gender- separate training. On November 6, 1971, the Monitoring Committee decided that Mount Holyoke should remain a women's college.
Collection and Museum of Art
The Mount Holyoke Female Seminary has an important collection of over 17,000 pieces of art and antiques.
Famous people
Lecturers
- Sven Birkerts, literary critic
- Joseph Brodsky, a professor of literature, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987
- Thomas E. Wartenberg, Professor of Philosophy
Graduates
- Lucy Stone (1839, without graduating), women's rights activist, abolitionist and journalist
- Louise Taft ( 1845), second wife of Alphonso Taft, and the mother of U.S. President William Howard Taft
- Emily Dickinson ( 1848), poet
- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1871 ), writer
- Minerva Chapman ( 1875), a painter of Impressionism
- Frances Perkins (1902 ), 4th Minister of Labour of the United States
- Elizabeth Holloway Marston (1915), psychologist, co-creator of the comic book heroine Wonder Woman
- Dorothy Hansine Andersen ( 1922), a pediatrician and pathologist
- Helen Hogg (1926 ), Canadian astronomer
- Virginia Apgar (1929 ), surgeon and anesthetist
- Ella T. Grasso (1940 ), politician and Governor of the U.S. state of Connecticut
- Jean E. Sammet (1948 ), computer scientist
- Jean Taylor ( 1966), mathematician
- Wendy Wasserstein ( 1971), playwright
- Elaine Chao (1975 ), 2001-2009 Secretary of Labor of the United States under George W. Bush
- Susan Kare (1975 ), a graphic designer
- Judith Tarr (1976 ), writer
- Nita Lowey, politician ( U.S. House of Representatives )