Word: mountingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friday is a day of transition at all women's colleges, and Mount Holyoke is no exception. For on this particular day of the week, the great change takes place: the motley assortment of blue jeans, Bermuda shorts, and sloppy shirts gives way to the plaid skirts, high heels, and camel's hair coats...
...atmosphere is very congenial. As one Harvard undergraduate remarked, "When you walk into a Smith dorm, you feel as though the walls are made of icebergs; when you walk into a Holyoke dorm, everyone is warm and friendly." The girls at Mount Holyoke admit very freely that, by the end of a male-less week of study, they are indeed happy to lay eyes on the great American college...
...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 institution in the United States for the higher education of women. The leader in the fight to found such an institution was Mary Lyon, who chose the above quotation from the Bible as the motto for the school...
...Mount Holyoke's president, Richard Glenn Gettell, noted, higher education for women has come a long way from "the earlier day of militant feminism. College has no gender today: both sexes can be awfully good students...
...last April. In fact, no one from Harvard was at this regional meeting. This conference was part of a program financed by a $24,500 grant from the Ford Foundation. Although Ivy League and Seven College Conference institutions have problems which are "different" from those at other colleges, Trinity, Mount Holyoke, and Cornell are "pilot campuses" in this program...