Oldest Women’s College in Nation Marks 150th Year
Mount Holyoke College, the nation’s oldest continuing college for women, kicked off its 150th birthday party Sunday, a planned two-year celebration of women’s pioneering achievements.
Mount Holyoke is one of five original “Seven Sisters” colleges to maintain an all-woman admissions policy. The others are Smith, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley and Barnard. The other two were Vassar, which became co-ed, and Radcliffe, which became a part of Harvard University.
Mount Holyoke prepared to begin its sesquicentennial festivities Sunday night with a convocation, musical procession and fireworks on the campus of the western Massachusetts college founded in 1837 by New England educator Mary Lyon.
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