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

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Eelke Erie Qlnllrgv Lake Erie College is the successor of Willougliby Seminary, founded in Willoughby, Ohio, in response to an expressed desire on the part of the people of the Western Reserve for a school in Ohio with the same general purpose and ideals as Mount Holyoke Sem- inary, which had been founded ten years earlier. After the building burned, in IS56, it was decided to rebuild in Painesville, Ohio, ten miles further east. Wlien the new Lake Erie Seminary was opened in l859, the articles of incorporation provided that the system of instruction and management should be substantially those of Mount Holyoke. and until l878 the principal and many of the teachers were Mount Holyoke women. In l908 the name was legally changed from Lake Erie Female Seminary to Lake Erie College. and at the fiftieth anniversary in l909, the administration was accordingly altered, the Mount Holyoke succession being continued in the appointment of Miss Vivian Small as second president of Lake Erie College. 9

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mrntrrn Glnllvge The Western Seminary for Women was opened in September, 1855, at Oxford. Ohio. Its half-century of growth has been in many ways similar to that of the mother college. Twice the buildings have been burned to the ground. and twice a new home has been provided and dedicated. In IS95 the first college degrees were granted, and from that time on, the Western College, though small in numbers, has held a place of its own in the higher education of women. 8

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v H- ff ---I f- gg' iilllilla Cllnllegr Mills College was established in California to do for the West what Mount Holyoke does for the East. The early foundations were laid at Benicia, under a Board of Trustees. In IS65 the school was purchased by Rev. Cyrus T. Mills, D.D.. and his wife, Susan Lincoln Mills, a Mount Holyoke graduate- They moved the school to its present site near Oakland, in I87l, and called it Mills Seminary. In l885 a college charter was granted by the State, ancl the name changed to Mills College and Seminary. The seminary department, however, has been gradually dropped, and since May, l9l l, the work has been wholly that of a college. Mills shows twenty-eight per cent. increase in enrollment since last year and bids fair to hold its own as the only woman's college west of the Rocky Mountains. I0