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xi, [1], 372 p. front., illus., plates, port, index. 24 cm. 

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PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

First School in Boston-Why Colleges Were Founded-Harvard - Other Colleges before 1802-Law Requiring Universal Education - Penalty - Grammar and Primary Schools Required - Why Public Schools Were not for Girls-Decline in Education in the 18th Century - Effect of Revolutionary War - Admission of Girls to Public Schools - Law of 1789 - Woman as Teacher - Wages - Proofs of Progress - Branches Taught - Academies - Girls' Schools - William Woodbridge - Mrs. Willard - Catharine Fiske - Catharine Beecher- Rev. Joseph Emerson - Miss Z. P. Grant - Expenses in Girls' Schools - Why More than in Colleges - Demand for Teachers - One Hundred Catholic Schools for Girls - One Hundred and Twenty Colleges - Mount Holyoke Seminary Incorporated, . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mr. Emerson - Byfield Seminary - Miss Grant - Adams Academy - Buckland School - Ipswich Seminary - Efforts for Endowment - Effect of Failure - The New Plan - Its One Principle - Its Features . . . . . . . .

General Committee Appointed - First Thousand Dollars - Obstacles - Objections-Answers - Location - Name - Deacon Safford - Dr. Packard - Reliance upon Benevolence - Mr. Hawks - Circulars - Deacon Avery - Misses Maynard - Subscription Records . . . . . .

Charter - Deacon Porter - Site - Corner-stone - Miss Grant - Effort in Boston - Wheaton Seminary - Prospectus - Progress in Building - Furnishing and Finishing . . . . . . . . . 

Contrast in Travel - Connecticut Valley - Hampshire County - South Hadley - Seminary Grounds - Seminary Building - Glance at Harvard - School Opens - Inconveniences - First Breakfast - Kindness of Villagers - Dedication, . . . . . . 

The Theory - Difficulties - Bread-making - Domestic Department - Plan of Organization - Modifications - Students of the First Year - Financial Success - First Anniversary - Diploma, . . . . . 

Self-Help - Care for Health - Plan of Instruction - Use of Bible  - Prayer - Specific Labor - Personal Influence - Teachers - Government - Cultivation of Conscience - Sense of Honor - Benevolence - Personal Responsibility - System Progressive - Caution, . . . . . . . . . . 

Miss Lyon's Personality - Pupils Free with Her - Her Hold on Them - Influence Abiding - Interest in Individuals - Watch  over Mutual Influences - Enthusiasm and Thoroughness in Teaching - Notes of Criticism - Care for Health - Afternoon  Exercises - Cure of Disorderly Habits - Dress - Sabbath Letterwriting -  Counsels on Teaching - Motives - After a Death - Morning Addresses - Miss Lyon's Bible - Letter in Recapitulation - Told  for a Memorial . .

  Overflowing Numbers-Dr. Anderson's Address-Woman's Higher Education an Experiment - Plans for Enlarging the Building - Opposition -Success - Course of Study - Progress - Additional Advantages - French - Latin - Greek and Hebrew Desired . . . . .

Fast-days - First Revival - Blessings and Trials of 1840 - Recess Meetings - Five Fruitful Years - Miss Lyon's Larger Desires - Praying for the World - Counsels upon Giving - Meeting at Norwich - Miss Fiske - Revival of 1843 - "Missionary Offering" - New Interest in Missions - Other Teachers Leave - Revival of 1846 - Mr. Condit's Death - Miss Rice Joins Miss Fiske - Miss Lyon's Last Vacation - Instructions - Illness - Death . . . . . . . . . .

Miss Whitman and Miss Hazen - Miss Chapin and Miss Spofford - Tribute of Dr. Fisher - Miss Jessup -Miss Tolman - Stewards - Improvements - North Wing - Observatory - Library Room - Death of Deacon Safford - Gymnasium - Extension of South Wing - Water Tower - Course of Study - Seminary in Wartime - Twenty-fifth Anniversary, . . . . . . . . .

Appointments Made - A Critical Period - Instruction in Modern Languages - Scientific Building Proposed - The School at Penikese - Obstacles - The New Colleges for Women - Continued Progress Indispensable - Tokens for Good - Dr. Kirk's Death - Mrs. Safford, Mrs. Eddy, and Mrs. Banister - Lectures on Art - Burning of the Church - Corner-stone of the New Building Laid - Anniversary in a Tent - Botanical Meeting - The Historical Sketch - Seminary Students at a Fire - Lectures ofJoseph Cook, . . . . . . . . . 

Events of the Year 1882-3 - Miss Blanchard Elected Principal - Growth - Library Building Enlarged - Microscopical Outfit - Seminary Life at the Present Time - Religious History - Teachers who have Gone to Foreign Work - Women Trustees - Change of Stewards - Financial Statements - Endowments Needed - Synopsis of the Present Course of Study, . . . . 

Table of Attendance by Classes - Averages - Numbers from Different Places . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

Christian Culture and Common Sense - One thing Holyoke does not do - It does Train for Usefulness - Influence of the Domestic Feature - Training Appreciated Gradually - Helps in the Work of Life - In Sorrow - Fortifies against Skepticism - Out lives Miss Lyon - Leads to Christ - Strengthens Christians - Cultivates Self-denial - Leaves its Stamp - Endears Private Prayer - Stimulates Interest in Missions - Alumnae Send Daughters to Alma Mater - Gratitude of Loyal Hearts, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Memorandum Records - List of Foreign Missionaries - Alumnae Associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

In Persia - Tahlequah - Ohio - California - Michigan - Turkey -
South Africa - Spain - Japan - Minnesota, . . . . . . . . 

Catalogue of Trustees - Teachers - Superintendents - Stewards  - Anniversary Speakers - Pastors . . . . . . . . . . . .

Seminary and Library, 1 
Seminary Grounds, from Goodnow Park, 82 
Portrait of Mary Lyon, 118 
Lyman Williston Hall, 246 

                        HELIOTYPES.

Bird's-eye View of Seminary and Grounds, Frontispiece.
Birth-place of Mary Lyon, 20
The Parlors, 61
Art Gallery, interior, 103 
Seminary Hall, interior, 132 
Mineralogical Alcove, 147 
Library, interior, 221 
The Observatory, 235 
Equatorial Telescope,259 
Botanical Room, 273 
Zoological Laboratory, 300
Lecture room, Williston Hall, 315 
Ornithological Alcove, 324 

Birth-place Tablet, 12
Grave of Mary Lyon, 183