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Events on Wednesday 8 November 1837 1
1837Mount Holyoke Female Seminary foundedMary Lyon opens one of the first institutions of higher education for women in the U.S.Mary Lyon founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Massachusetts to provide rigorous academic education to women at a time when few such opportunities existed. It is considered the first of the Seven Sisters colleges.