Defining Women's Scientific Enterprise

Miriam R. Levin's account of science at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, follows the curriculum from 1837 when the original seminary was founded by Mary Lyon to the appointment of the college's first male president in 1937. During this century science was a core element of Mount Holy-oke's academic program and was deeply embedded in its institutional identity. Attentive to Mount Holyoke's religious origins and its ongoing sense of education as a calling, Levin analyzes how this outlook was transformed from its founders' natural theology outlook into its purposeful education of women that included science. One central theme describes the division of responsibility and the interconnectedness for teaching science that was negotiated among normal schools, liberal arts colleges, research universities, and a number of intermediary organizations such as the Marine Biological Laboratory at the turn of the century. Mount Holyoke's innovative faculty worked out, very successfully, a curriculum that was sufficiently versatile to provide a basic education including science alongside an advanced program that prepared B.S. degree graduates for medical and graduate education

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