Mount Holyoke College - Llamarada Yearbook (South Hadley, MA)

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'i zne aanmnnnnn is Mary Lyon O US of the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Twelve has come the desire, because we are the seventy-fifth graduating class, that, in our small way, we, too, may express some of our appreciation of all the noble women who have made our college what it is today. The alumnae have just placed a bronze tablet in memory of the ten consecrated women who served as principals or presidents, in the President's room in the Library. It is an inspiring list. We love and esteem them all, but above them all we revere Mary Lyon, her who seemed to have been on the Mount with God. We all know at least some part of her life: how she gained her own education in spite of the prejudice of the times and the meagerness of facilities: how, educated herself, she dedicated her life to founding a permanent institution which should have every advantage which the state of education in this country will allow . Against discouragement, lack of money, prejudice, opposi- tion, she worked, but in the end because of her beautiful courageous spirit, because of her magnetic personality, she triumphed. In l837, she saw laid the corner stone of Mount Holyoke Seminary, the first institution in the United States devoted exclusively to the higher education of women. For twelve years she held the position of Principal in the Seminary. It is impossible for us to do justice to the influence she had over those first students, but through them we can grasp in some little way why it is that her spirit has lived on and on, widening and deepening the usefulness of the institution which she founded, until now our college enlarged and ennobled beyond the highest thought of its founder, can yet find for its glorious expanding life no loftier and truer ideal than that which allured and inspired her, and can build its great unfolding future upon no surer basis than the fixed principles to which she was faithful. 8 'From Dr. Hopkins' address on Founder's Day, Nov. 7, l902. 6

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MARY LYON