Bennett College collection, 1948-1966.

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Bennett College collection, 1948-1966.

Correspondence, publications, clippings, and photographs, relate chiefly to exchange program between Bennett College and Mount Holyoke College, 1957-1965.

1 box : ill.

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Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.)

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Founded as a coeducational institution in the basement of Warnersville Methodist Episcopal Church North in 1873; Freedmen's Aid and the Southern Education Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church assumed responsibility of the institution in 1874; by 1901 the collegiate division had 222 enrolled students; named in honor of Lyman Bennett, a New York business man who donated $10,000, Bennett College was reorganized as a college for women in 1926. Willa B. Player was the first female president of B...

Mount Holyoke College.

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The first official publication of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was a catalogue issued in 1837 containing information about trustees, teachers, terms of admission, the course of study, the schedule for the year, Family Accommodations, and the Moral and Religious Influence at the school. Subsequent catalogues (with periodic updates) trace the growth of the institution and provide detailed information about the academic program and residential life for students at the College. These publications h...