In eighteen ninety-three, under a state law, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary became a college.

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She helped to organize another private school for women, Wheaton Female Seminary in Norton,Massachusetts.

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Mary Lyon opened Mount Holyoke Seminary for Women in eighteen thirty-seven.

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She called it the Buckland Female Seminary.

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