Mount Holyoke College is a private women's liberal arts college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, established in 1837 by Mary Lyon as the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, receiving its collegiate charter in 1888 and becoming fully a college in 1893. It is the oldest member of the Seven Sisters, and both Vassar and Wellesley were modeled after it; in 2014 it became the first remaining Seven Sisters college to adopt a transgender-inclusive undergraduate admissions policy. The college enrolls about 2,275 students and participates in the Five College Consortium alongside Amherst, Smith, Hampshire and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Historic member of the Seven Sisters consortium of women's colleges in the northeastern United States, alongside Mount Holyoke College.
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Historic member of the Seven Sisters consortium of women's colleges in the northeastern United States, alongside Mount Holyoke College.
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Historic member of the Seven Sisters consortium of women's colleges in the northeastern United States, alongside Smith College; the two are also, together with Amherst College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (neither yet live in this atlas), members of the Five College Consortium.
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Historic member of the Seven Sisters consortium of women's colleges in the northeastern United States, alongside Vassar College.
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Historic member of the Seven Sisters consortium of women's colleges in the northeastern United States, alongside Mount Holyoke College.
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The college was founded in 1837 as the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary by Mary Lyon, a pioneer in education for women.
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Mount Holyoke College is a private women's liberal arts college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, established in 1837 by Mary Lyon as the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, receiving its collegiate charter in 1888 and becoming fully a college in 1893.
- Associated With: Smith College
- Associated With: Vassar College
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View the SourceWellesley College (Wikipedia)
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Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is one of the Seven Sisters Colleges.
Bryn Mawr College (Wikipedia)
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Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges.
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