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Mt. Holyoke College

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Day
5
Month
March
Year
1897
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Public Domain
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The Michigan Alumnae Association of Mt. llolyoke college, met in the Kussell House parlors last Katurday afternoon, to celébrate the lOOth anníversary of the birth of Mary Lyon the founder of the college, üfflcers were elected in the forenoon, and aftera banquet and lunch, at which appropriate toasts were responded to Mrs. J. T. Sunderland of this city read a paper. The Detroit Free Press thus reports Mrs. Sunderland's remarks:- "At the end of the banquet the ladies reassembled in the parlors, and there, with a score or more of interested members of their own sex, listened to a most interesting address by Mrs. J. T. Sunderland, Pb., "ü., principal of the history department of Ann Arbor High School. This address was the pivotal point of the meeting. Mrs. Sunderland, herself a gradúate of the celebrated institution of learning, recited the early condition of women, to begin with. The ideas of the oíd wond had beed brought to this country, and one of these ideas seeined to be that man alone should possess the knowledge that is now the common property of all who choose to work for it. The second term of Washington as president had ended, and Adams was just coming into the presidency, wher the effort at ferainine edueatión was made in Massachusetts. The eft'ort a first was, of course. a crude, indefinite insignificant sort of attempt, and it re ceiyed the condemnatibn of the mea universally. 15ut it was the seed tha took root, for af ter repeated discourage ments and numberless sneers and jeers there came finally to be formed a class in which the daughters of the rich alone should be given the advantages of edu catión. Mary Lyon was the teacher oí this class. Slie had bf en allowed some slight advantages, and these she had added to materially by close attention to books and to the sayings that dropped from the lips of such wise men as she could encounter. In time she gave up this work, advancing the reason that she wished to begin the teaching of a class of women recruited from the middle element, which, she held, was the bone and sinew of this country in all professions and businesses. Ju a smaü way she began, and the college named Mt. Ilolyoke is the outcome of her efïorts." Choiul l nion Series. Prof. Alberto Jonas will give the next number in the Choral Union series at Univcrsity this evening. We give below the program he will present, and we know his many friends will turn out in force to heaïhim. Soiiaüi' Op. 111 Beethoven Maesloso, Allegro con brio ed appassionate adagio niolto semplice e cantabile. Twelve Symphonlc Studies Schumann (a). Nocturne in B minor. 1 (h), Valse in C sharp minor. ) Chopin (c). Scberzo in C sbarp minor, ) Gavotte et Musette D' Albert Menuetto, Scherzaudo B. Stavenba"en Krakowiak In K major Paderewski Vitlse- Caprice A. Eubinsteln l'asse-Pied Delibes Rhapsodle io. 12 Liszt

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat