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 BY 
 
 PHILIP STAFFORD MOXOM, D.D. 
 
 A Sermon preached in the South Congre- 
 gational Meeting House of Springfield^ 
 Massachusetts^ on the One Hundredth 
 A 7t n iv e rsa ry of Ma ry Lyo ns^ Birth. 
 February 28th, rSgy. 
 
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 The Mary Lyon Centennial 
 
 AND THE 
 
 Higher Education of Women, 
 
 This day, February 28, 1897. is the one 
 hundredth anniversary of the birth of 
 Mary Lyon, the founder of Mount Holyoke 
 College for women. Ail over the land this 
 anniversary is marked by tributes to her 
 memory and by gifts to the institution 
 with which her name is inseparably linked. 
 Why this honor to a Massachusetts spin- 
 ster who lived but fifty-two years, and 
 gave but a dozen of those years to the 
 school which she founded? 
 
 The woman and the deed are both im- 
 mensely significant. 
 
 Today most people believe in the advan- 
 tage and even the necessity of liberal edu- 
 cation — for girls as well as boys. It was 
 but yesterday that the major part of the 
 people believed in broad and advanced cul- 
 ture only for boys and men. 
 
 It is difficult for us to realize that a little 
 more than one hundred years ago, in the 
 Connecticut Valley, that is now starred 
 
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with colleges for both sexes, girls sat upon 
 the door-step of the public school-houne ir 
 order to hear the boys recite, aud thus 
 gather some fragments of the knowledge 
 that was denied them. The first public 
 school iu Boston was opened in 1635, five 
 years after the founding of that city, and 
 one year before thefounding of Springfield, 
 but not one girl was admitted to a public 
 school in the whole State of Massachusett« 
 until 1789. One year before this latter date 
 Northampton deliberately voted that 
 ^'none of the public money should be ex- 
 pended in the education of girls." Girls 
 were first admitted to the public schools 
 of the enlightened State of Rhode Island in 
 1822. As earlj/ as 1780, however, the pub- 
 lic schools of Boston were opened to girls, 
 w^ho were allowed one half-year's tuition in 
 spelling, reading and composition; the 
 dangerous science of mathematics was still 
 forbidden. In 1825 a public high school for 
 girls was opened in Boston. It was contin- 
 ued only a year and a half and then aban- 
 doned. It is said that the reasons for aban- 
 doning this venture were as follows: ^'In 
 the first place, the school had proved too 
 costly; $4,500 had been used in the trial. 
 Secondly, it did not seem probable thatthe 
 pupils would cease craving instruction 
 within the walls except when called to mar- 
 riage,'^ 
 
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A few years before this time (about 1820) 
 Mrs. Emma Willard, an honored name, 
 petitioned the Legislature of New York 
 State for aid in forming ^'a school for the 
 advanced and thorough edacation of 
 women ;" but even she avowed in her peti- 
 tion '^the absurdity of sending ladies to 
 college. "It has been said by Mi^s* Kate 
 Stevens, in an article in the Forum for 
 March 1889, that Georgia Female College 
 was '^the first college devoted exclusively 
 to women ;" but this is an error. There y^'as 
 a movement for such a College in Macon, 
 Ga., as early as 1835, but the College did 
 not open till January 7, 1839, and four 
 years later it was sold under insolvency 
 and became the Wesleyan l^'emale College. 
 Its work, however, was not interrupted and 
 it has had a career of constant and grow- 
 ing usefulness. 
 
 The corner stone of Mt. Holyoke Semi- 
 nary was laid Oct. 3, 1836, and the school 
 was opened with four teachers and eighty 
 scholars on Nov. 8, 1837. During the first 
 year the number of scholars increased to 
 116. At the time of Mary Lyon's death in 
 1849 there were fourteen teachers and 229 
 pupils. 
 
 Mt. Holyoke then, is the first institution 
 founded in this country, that gave any- 
 thing like a collegiate training exclusively 
 for girls. Its course of study comprised An- 
 
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cient Geooraphy, Ancient and Modern His- 
 tory, Algebra, Physiology y Botany, Natur- 
 al Philosophy, English Gram^nar, Geom- 
 etry, Ecclesiastical History, Chemistry, As- 
 tronomy, Rhetoric, Geology, Evidences of 
 Christianity, Natural Theology, Logic, In- 
 tellectual and Moral Philosophy, and Po- 
 litical Economy. There were also studies in 
 the analysis of Milton's Paradise Lost and 
 other specimens of English Verse. Except 
 for the omission of Greek and Latin this 
 early curriculum compares favorably with 
 the curricula of a good many colleges as 
 late as twenty-five years ago, and even la- 
 ter. 
 
 Mt. Holyoke Seminary at its inception 
 was the true embryo of the high grade 
 woman's college of today. It holds its place 
 securely as the pioneer among colleges for 
 women. Two hundred years after the first 
 American College for men (Ha^rvard) was 
 founded in New England, and w^hen already 
 one hundred and twenty such colleges had 
 been founded in this country, the General 
 Court of Massachusetts gave a charter to 
 Mt. Holyoke Seminary. This was in 1837. 
 In 1888, during the days of the memor- 
 able blizzard in March of that year, the 
 Legislature amended the charter by add- 
 ing to the title ^'Mt. Holyoke Seminary" 
 the words ''and College", and gave the 
 college the power to confer degrees; and 
 
in 1893 the Legislature fui'ther ainend- 
 ed the charter, making the name simply, 
 ^^Mt. Holyoke College." 
 
 Let ns take a rapid survey of the pro- 
 gress of collegiate education for women. It 
 will be seen that only one institution ante- 
 dates Mt. Holyoke in admitting w^omen to 
 advanced studies.* 
 
 In 1833 Ot)erlin College was founded 
 as a co-eiucational college, and opened 
 with 30 women and 63 men. In 1863, thirty 
 years later, theUniversity of Wisconsin en- 
 rolled 75 women. Vassar College for women, 
 founded in 1861, opened in 1865 with 353 
 unclassified students. In 1869 the Univer- 
 sity of Kansas admitted 29 girl^;. In 1870 
 the University of California announced the 
 liberty of women to enter its aourses, but 
 none were received during at least the first 
 year. In the same year the Massachusetts 
 Institute of Technology admitted one 
 woman to students' privileges, and seven 
 years later (1877) opened a seperate lab- 
 oratory for women. Also in 1870 the Uni 
 versity of Michigan admitted two women. 
 In the precedino' year North Western Uni- 
 versity, at Evanston, II!., received one 
 
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 ^Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham was founded in 
 1824 and admitted both sexes, but pupils were re- 
 ceived as young as ten years of age, and the course 
 was not so advanced, even for older i>upils, as the 
 course in Mt. Holyoke. 
 
woman, and in the following year (1871) 
 Wesleyan University received four. In the 
 same year Syracuse UniverBity received 
 twenty-seven women; one year later Cornell 
 University matriculated fifteen; and in 
 1873 Boston University opened as a co-ed- 
 ucational institution. In 1875 Smith Col- 
 lege for women began with twelve fresh- 
 men, and ill the sameyearWellesley College 
 opened with 314 students. Harvard Col- 
 lege somewhat grudgingly o])ened its 
 courses, but not its degrees, to women in 
 1879 and twenty women entered the Har- 
 vard Annex, which has since become Rad- 
 cliffe College. In 1885 Bryn Mawr began 
 with forty-four students, and two years la- 
 ter Evelyn College, a woman's Annex to 
 Princeton, opened with seventeen students. 
 In rpcent years Brown University has also 
 established an Annex for women, and I be- 
 lieve a few women have been admitted as 
 advanced students at Yale. Union Theo- 
 logical Seminary in New York admits 
 women, and a daughter of Dr. Charles A. 
 Br-iggs has distingaished herself by achieve- 
 ments in the study of the Semitic lan- 
 guages. 
 
 To summarize: In 1888 there were 237 
 co-educational colleges and universities in 
 the United States. In 1884 there were 230 
 colleges or schools of higher learning es- 
 pecially for women. There are today not 
 
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less than 500 institutions in which women 
 may receive collegiate training, with an 
 ago'regate attendance of not far from 100,- 
 000 girls. 
 
 Such in sixty years, has been the vast re- 
 sult of the aspiration and endeavor which 
 were incarnated in Ma^y Lyon. 
 
 It would be an exaggeration to say that 
 Mary Lyon produced all this advance. The 
 higher education of women would have 
 come if Mary Lyon had not lived and done 
 the work which she did. Doubtless; and the 
 United States would have attained inde- 
 pendence eventually had not George Wash- 
 ington been born. The cause of human pro- 
 gress is divine, and does not absolutely de- 
 pend on any one individual soul. But this 
 in no way lessens the honor due to pioneers 
 and founders of benificent institutions. The 
 prophetic mind that, sees the need of pro- 
 gress and has the heroism to dare and at- 
 tempt, deserves our grateful recognition 
 and praise. 
 
 Mary Lyon's title to honor is not doubt- 
 ful and it is very great. She saw the need 
 of enlarged intellectual opportunity for 
 women. She felt the obligation upon her to 
 meet in some measure the need. She had the 
 prophetic mind, the indomitable will, the 
 utter consecration and the immense capa- 
 city for toil and self-sacrifice which quali- 
 fied her to accomplish a work that makes 
 
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ber one of the very greatest benefactors of 
 our Nation. 
 
 The Htory of her early life reveals her ar- 
 dent (Ipsirefor pei'Honal self-enlture and the 
 prodigious aiid successful efforts which she 
 made to ot)tain it. She had the large love 
 of her kind which made her passionately de- 
 sire the same privileges for others of her 
 sex who' were environed by poverty and in- 
 differencH. She had the executive ability, 
 the persistent purpose and the physical 
 and intellectual resourcefulness which 
 made her equal to her task. And she had 
 the sincere piety and faith in God which 
 saved her at once from selfish ambition 
 and from paralyzing donbt and fear. 
 
 There are three main characteristics of 
 this remarkable woman which I may sin- 
 gle out as worthy of consideration now, 
 for their union in her character explains, 
 m part at l^ast, her success, and these also 
 distinguish her as an eminent example 
 for the young women of today. 
 
 The first characteristic was her high aim. 
 She had all the instincts, passions, sus- 
 ceptibilities and desires of the true, well- 
 developed woman. To a high degree she 
 was susceptible to the attractions of a 
 domestic life. But more clearly than per- 
 haps any New England contemporary she 
 saw the deficiency in the common training 
 of girls for the spheres of home and society, 
 
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and the importance of raiyin^ the level 
 and bfoadeiiing the scope of woman's life. 
 She had no fantnstieal thoughts or sen- 
 timents, but she had a very substantial 
 conception of feminine capabilities and a 
 profound insight into the dependence of 
 the entire social life, intellectual and moral, 
 on the character and attainments of wo- 
 men as mothers and teachers. Her pas- 
 sion was to create for h^r young sisters 
 the opportunity and the means for culture 
 that should develop them into strong, 
 sagacious, upright, intelligent and religious 
 women. 
 
 Her aim was singularly unselfish. Never 
 was a woman more free from personal 
 ambition in any form of self seeking. She 
 loved her kind and to the service of her 
 lovesubjected with unconquerable patience 
 andenthnsiasm all of her vigorous powers. 
 To her aim she sacrificed all merely per- 
 sonal aids. Declining marriage, a sacrifice 
 much greater for her than for one less af- 
 fectionate and domestic, she gave her life 
 in as pure and lofty a devotion as ever 
 characterized a Saint Theresa, while it was 
 much more intelligent and practically 
 useful. 
 
 How powerfully her example appeals to 
 susceptible and highminded young woman- 
 hood. How surely a noble aim exalts a 
 lite. She who has a high aim is lifted a- 
 
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bove the belittleino; frivolities in which the 
 mere child of fashion submerges herself, 
 and above the petty worries and sordid 
 cares which infest the soul that has no 
 great thoughts and aspirations. 
 
 The second characteristic was persistence. 
 Seldom does one exhibit or develop so 
 great a power of determmation in the face 
 of obstinate difficulties as Mary Lyon il- 
 lustrated in the pursuit of the end which 
 she had set before her. She was without 
 wealth or wealthy friends. The $27,000 
 which she collected for her school buildiug 
 w^ere secured ''in sums ranging from six 
 cents, in three instances, to 1 1,000 in but 
 two, and there were eighteen hundred sub- 
 scribers.'^ She had to overcome the con- 
 servatism of long established mental habit 
 which held most of the people, and which 
 prevented any progress in the education of 
 w^omen beyond the most elementry grades 
 save by constant and prolonged efiort. 
 As if this were not obstacle enough, she 
 w^as confronted by positive prejudice, and, 
 in some cases, by half scornful opposition. 
 Yet she never fainted, never wavered, never 
 lost faith or courage, and, better still, never 
 lost her radiant cheerfulness. Sometimes 
 she w^as severely criticised. Iler incessant 
 traveling to secure aid for her enterprise 
 troubled her friends. The indifferent and 
 prejudiced were not slow to find fault. 
 Still she persevered. 
 
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"Feeling that the cause for which slie toih^d was the 
 Lord's," wrot*^ Mrs. Cowles, *'she was willing to 
 make herself of no reputation for its advancement. 
 Certain that her feet were on a rock, she stood firm 
 and fearless of sinking. Along with unbounded trust 
 in God, she had a reasonable and intelligent trust in 
 herself; and both coinbinpd to help her cling tena- 
 ciously to her darling object. So long as what she did 
 was not sinful, she left the consequences entirely to 
 that Providence whose agent she felt herself to be. 
 *What do I that is wrong?', she would say to her 
 friends who expostulated with her on the subject. *1 
 ride in the stage coach or cars without an escort. 
 Other ladies do the same. I visit a family where I 
 have been previously inyited, and the minister's wife, 
 or some leading woman, calls the ladies together to 
 see me, and I lay our object before them. Is that 
 wrong? I go with Mr. Hawks, and call on a gentle- 
 man of known liberality at his home and converse 
 with him about our enterprise. What harm is ther® 
 in that? If there is no harm in doing these things 
 once, what harm is there in doing them twice, thrice, 
 or a dozen times? My heart is sick, my soul is pained 
 with this empty gentility, this genteel nothingness. 
 I am doing a great work. I cannot come down.* 
 Thus she justified her multiplied toils, travels, and* 
 sacrifices. Though naturally desirous of human 
 approbation, yet, if she was sure she was right, she 
 could go forward, though her dearest friends thought 
 she was wrong." 
 
 When the difficultie.s that beset her were 
 f^reatest her mother wrote of her: 
 
 *'Mary will not give it up ; she just walks the floor 
 when all is so dark, and says : 'Commit thy way un- 
 to the Lord, trust also in him, and he shall bring it 
 to pass. Women must be educated I They must be.' " 
 
 This magnificent spirit bore her 
 
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through and over all obstacles. She 
 would not be defeated, and she was 
 not. Her career illustrates the power of 
 the human will to achieve the apparently 
 impossible. Irdeed, it is said that men 
 g-rew afraid to oppose her, for it seemed 
 to them that what she undertook was 
 purposed by the Lord. 
 
 It is no cause for wouder that somewhat 
 of this indomitableness entered into the 
 training and dicipliue which she applied 
 to her pupils. It was needed then ; it is 
 even more needed now. The soft nurture 
 of daughters in many modern homes en- 
 nervates the character. Maternal coddling 
 spoils far more fine girls than stern disci- 
 pline ever injured. 
 
 The feminine nature, quite as much as 
 the masculine, needs the heroic element in 
 early training in order to attain to its best 
 estate. Such training would have saved 
 many a woman from the fickle and pas- 
 sionate wilfulness which now mars her 
 character, and put in the place of it a fine, 
 resilient firmness of will that supplies the 
 strength which makes beauty and gentle- 
 ness doubly charming and effective. 
 
 The third characteristic was her unflinch- 
 ing loyalty to duty. One of her last 
 sayings to her school was: ^^ There is no- 
 thing in the universe that I fear but that 
 I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail 
 
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to do it." These words fitly garin'sli the 
 modest stone that marks her grave. 
 More than any others they disck^se the ■ 
 deepest secret of hfr hfe. Mnry Lyon was 
 a woman of quick sensibihtj^ and great 
 affectionateness of nature, but the regnant 
 forces in h^r soul were a profound sense of 
 personal responsibility and a sublime 
 tiust in God. Th^se made her great. Her 
 devotion to duty was an armature against 
 temptation and a girdle of strength in her 
 struggle with difficulties. 
 
 In this, too, she is worthy of imita^tion. 
 We cannot easily live and labor without 
 sentiment a nd affection. We need the gra ce 
 of tenderness, the uplift of aspiration and 
 the quickening glow of enthusiasm. But 
 we need even more a compelling sense of 
 duty. This will hold us steady under the 
 assaults of trial; this will give us patience 
 in the face of exa^^perating opposition; 
 this will arm us effectually against the 
 seductions of temptation to self-indulgence 
 that beset us all. 
 
 These characteristics I commend to the 
 girls and young women of today: a lofty 
 aim, an indomitable will, and an unhesi- 
 tating loyalty to duty. Fear nothing- 
 save that you shall not knov/ and do 
 your whole duty. Take to your hearts 
 and fix in your memory that noble poem 
 of Wordsworth's: — 
 
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*'Stern Daughter of the Voice of GodI 
 O Duty! if that name thou love 
 Who art a light to guide, a rod 
 To check the erring, and reprove; 
 Thou, who art victory and law 
 When empty terrors overawe; 
 From vain temptations dost set free, 
 And calm'st the weary Rtrife of frail hu- 
 manity." 
 
 Mount Holyoke College today, with its 
 magniflcent if still inadequate equipment, 
 its corps of teachers unsurpassed in learn- 
 ing, intelligence, high principle and unselfish 
 devotion to their work, and its hundreds 
 of enthusiastic and loyal students, is the 
 fulfilment and reward of Mary Lyon's 
 aspiration, endeavor and self-sacrifice. 
 She literally gave her life for it and to it ; 
 for, although she was physically a strong 
 woman, she died at the early age of fifty- 
 two years, after serving twelve years as 
 head of the school. Had she lived but to 
 lay the cornerstone of the building that 
 represents so much labor and devotion 
 and hope, she would be worthy of all hon- 
 or. The tw^elve years of teaching ar\d 
 administration which she was permitted 
 to give put the stamp of her own lofty and 
 invincible spirit on the school, and that 
 has remained. 
 
 There have been connected with the 
 school since its foundation 8000 students. 
 Over 2000 have graduated. Since 1888, 
 
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when first it received and exercised the 
 power to confer degrees, it has honor- 
 ed with Acadenii? decrees 290 students* 
 who have fulfilled its high requirements. 
 Among its past students are women 
 who attained eminence in teaching and 
 administration, medicine and surgery, 
 and missionary service at home and 
 in foreign lands. Others have done 
 o'ood service and won distinction by con 
 tributions to the literature of History, 
 Ethics, Art, Fiction and Poetry. 
 
 The College today stands in the front 
 rank of educational institutions both in 
 curriculum and, especially, m methods r)f 
 teaching and study. It has well-manned, 
 perhaps I should say well-womaned, de- 
 partments in Languages including thf 
 Sf^mitic as well as the Classical and Mo 
 dern, in Literature and Criticism, in 
 Philosophy, the Sciences, History, Eco- 
 nomics and Politics. Its discipline is firm 
 and wholesome. 
 
 Miss Lyon introduced into her system of 
 training the idea of practical self-help by giv- 
 ing to each student a share in the household 
 work of +h^ co'lege home. This feature of 
 Mount Holyoke College lias been frequently 
 and often sev< rely criticised. For the most 
 part the criticism has been unintelligent 
 and unjust. When the Seminary was 
 
 *This number includes thn present graduating class. 
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founded it was difficult to secure and 
 retain hired domestics. The work was so 
 distributed that it bore heavily on none of 
 the students. This method made possible 
 th^ economy that enabled many poor girls 
 to get an education who otherwise could 
 not have done so. The exercise was val- 
 uable as a means to the physical health 
 of the student. It also pi:ave to al! a val- 
 uable, and in most casen a necessary, 
 practical training. Only a foolish senti- 
 mentality will object to a trainino: that 
 qualifies girls to ''keep house" with skill 
 and neatness. It w^ould be well if every 
 young woman, whether rich or poor, 
 were enabled adequately to care for her 
 own home, whether the circumstances of 
 her later life render this necessary or not. 
 I can not do better than to quote at length 
 from Miss Hooker's recent valuable paper 
 on ''Mount Holyoke College", in The Ne^^ 
 Enfyland Magazine for January 1897. 
 She says: — 
 
 " Miss Lyon retained the system [of domestic self- 
 help] because of what it accomplished in the abolition 
 of caste, in the dignifying of labor, in giving ex- 
 ecutive ability, habits of promptness and efficienc3^, 
 and as a factor in the power of adapting one's self 
 to circumstances, for which Mount Holyoke women 
 at home and abroad have always been noted. So 
 great has been the misconception of this idea that 
 even today and in towns within a radius of twenty 
 miles of the College there are occasionally found those 
 who suppose the studentsarelargely occupied in lea rn- 
 
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ing domestic accomplishments. All that Miss Lyon 
 ever required of her pupils was seventy minutes a day 
 which has been gradually reduced by the use of 
 modern appliances and by help hired for the harder 
 and less agreeable duties till an average of thirty 
 minutes daily from each accomplishes all that is 
 desired/^ 
 
 The practical administration of the Col- 
 lege is liberal and wise, illustrated by a 
 degree of self-sacrificing devotion on the 
 part of the teachers that is scarcely equalled 
 elsewhere, many of the teachers remaining 
 at their posts though receiving material 
 compensation smaller than most if not all 
 of them could get elsewhere. This spirit is 
 shared by the students. It is a noteworthy 
 fact that though the disastrgus fire of last 
 September came at the beginning of winter 
 and destroyed the usual comforts of hving 
 and lodgingfor most of them, scarcely any 
 left the college, though in some cases they 
 were invited to do so by their parents or 
 riends. Right loyally they stood by the 
 College, and made such shift as they could 
 in the narrow, though hospitable, homes 
 of South Hadley. 
 
 The religious character of the College 
 has been one of its chief and most valuable 
 distinctions. No dreamy pietism has been 
 inculcated, nor hollow conformity, but a 
 vigorous and bracing religion, nourished 
 by strenuous thinking and wisely guided 
 activity. 
 
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The claim of Mount Holyoke College 
 upon usis large. It is in the Cohuecticut 
 Valley and is the pioneer woman's College 
 in our country. Though for many years 
 bearing the modest name of Seminary, it 
 has done true collegiate work from the be- 
 ginning. It has not only kept abreast of 
 other colleges for women, but has even been 
 a leader in advanced methods of education. 
 
 It has trained, and soundly trained, 
 more poor girls than any other woman's 
 College. Its graduates have carried the 
 high culture of mind and heart and ^n- 
 science and will which it has imparted into 
 hundreds of homes and widely leavened the 
 domestic and social life of our country 
 with the transforming energies of Christian 
 grace and truth. This great work it 
 has done and is doing in increased 
 measure every year. But its needs are 
 great. It needs additional endowments 
 and buildings and apparatus. It needs 
 scholarships and fellowships. Its needs 
 are especially urgent now because of the 
 loss by fire. 
 
 How shall we best celebrate the cen- 
 tennial of Mary Lyon's birth? How shall 
 we most fitly honor her memory and 
 acknowledge the debt we owe her for her 
 noble work? By prompt and generous 
 gifts to the College which she founded and 
 into which she builded her faith, her 
 intelligence and her life. 
 
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