Statutes, circa 1841-1994
Scope and Contents note
Statutes (circa 1841-1994) contain copies of and information about Mount Holyoke's rules and regulations. A notebook known as the Book of Duties
(1842-1846) outlines the responsibilities of teachers, procedures for examinations and the system of marking, the daily schedule, the activities to be completed by members of the Mount Holyoke community of particular days, and the regulations concerning the care of health,
study hours, music lessons, fire prevention, vacations, walking and calisthenics exercises for students, and the requirement that all students regularly write compositions. Other regulations (circa 1841-1994) concern student behavior with regard to church attendance, exercise, visitors, off-campus activities, the care and furnishings of dormitory rooms, the use of library materials, smoking, and consumption of alcoholic beverages. There are also articles and letters (circa 1867-1968) relating to parodies of Mount Holyoke's regulations known as the Blue Laws
and Fire Laws.
These burlesques of actual rules were originally written by Mount Holyoke students in the mid-nineteenth century and have often been mistaken for the school's authentic rules.
Dates
- circa 1841-1994
Conditions Governing Access note
Unrestricted.
Extent
1 boxes
Language of Materials
From the Record Group: English
Arrangement note
Arranged by form of material, then chronologically.
- Miss Lyon's Standards for Absences
- Rules at South Hadley Seminary
- Schedule of bells
- Rules: "Items of the First Class", etc.
- Weekly Items
- Anniversary Items, etc.
- Rules
- Rules in use in 1874
- Regulations
- Regulations
- Mt. Holyoke College (rules)
- Regulations of the Students' League
- College Regulations
- Mount Holyoke College-House Regulations
- Important Notice
- Questionaire
- Important Notice
- House Regulations
- Alumnae Guest Regulations
- Dean's Notice Alumnae Guest
- Administrative Regulations
- Administrative Regulations
- Administrative Regulations
- Notice re: Alumnae Guests
- Administrative Regulations
- Administrative Regulations
- Regulations governing swimming, canoeing and sailing; with notes and corespondence
- Administrative Regulations
- Changes and Additions to Administrative Regulations, Student Government Handbook
- Changes and Additions to Administrative Regulations, Student Government Handbook
- Dean's Notice Regulation Revisions
- Administrative Regulations Dormitory Rules
- Why Rules?, etc.
- Dean's Memo to Faculty re: Honor Code
- The Education of Woman Springfield Republican article
- Journal letters
- Student opinion of rules and reporting system
- Daily schedule Mount Holyoke News Bureau letterhead
- President's Report
- No Smokes at Mount Holyoke
- Notice staying overnight at Amherst College
- Correspondence re: rule revisions
- President's letter to alumnae
- Fire laws of Mount Holyoke Seminary (burlesque)
- The Blue and Fire Laws of Mt. Holyoke Seminary
- Seminary Literature
- Blue Laws of Mt. Holoke Seminary (parody)
- From the Harvard Crimson
- Washing potatoes. . . Boston Herald article
- Stern days at Holyoke New York Sun article
- Holyoke rules once onerous Los Angeles Times article
- Some changes since then Pasadena Evening Post article
- Rules of the Eighteen Seventies Mount Holoke Alumnae Quarterly
- Those Fake Blue Laws Accepted as Genuine Boston Herald
- College Entrance Requirements, 100 years ago Democrat & Chronicle (Rochester, NY) article
- "Times have Changed" Readers Digest typescript
- Mt. Holyoke Forever The Amherst Student
- Bennett Cerf column Trade Winds
- When 2 x 2 meant fire. . . Community Press
- Hoary Holyoke Hoax by Walter C. Eells Liberal Education
- Social regulations, or Notes from behind the Tombstones Choragos
- Blue Laws of Mount Holyoke Seminary
- Morris, Augusta A. ALS to Miss Gilchrist
- Cummings, Mary E. TL to the Boston Herald
- Lyman, Eunice A. TL to the Boston Herald
- Note re: New York Sun article
- Library memo re: Harvard Crimson artidle
- Librarian TL to Mrs. George H. Cummings
- Cummings, Mary E. ALS to Miss Blakely
- Librarian TL to Mrs. George H. Cummings
- Librarian TL to Mrs. George H. Cummings
- Currier, T. Franklin TLS to Bertha E. Blakely
- McLean, Sydney R. TLS to The Reader's Digest
- Payne, Kenneth W. TLS to Sydney R. McLean
- Ludington, Flora B. TL to Kenneth W. Payne
- Payne, Kenneth W. TLS to Flora B. Ludington
- Faison, Georgia H. TLS to Flora B. Ludington
- Ludington, Flora B TLS to Georgia H. Faison
- Purington, Florence ALS to Miss Blakely
- Purington, Florence ALS to Miss Blakely
- Green, Elizabeth TL to the Editor of the Mount Holyoke News
- Nixdorf, Elbert B. TLS to Barbara Hubbard
- Hubbard, Barbara TL to Elbert B. Nixdorf
- Nixdorf, Elbert B. TLS to Reference Librarian
- Barbara Hubbard TL to Elbert B. Nixdorf
- Green, Elizabeth A. TL to Kenneth W. Payne
- Lewis, Hobart TL to Elizabeth A. Green
- Pratt, Joanne TL to Elizabeth Green
- Johnston, Mary J. ALS to Miss Blakely
- Green, Elizabeth TL to Walter Crosby Eels
- Eels, Walter Crosby TL to DeWitt Wallace
- Steyn, Mary T. TL to Walter C. Eels
- Green, Elizabeth TL to Walter C. Eels
- Miss Tuttle? TL to Anne C. Edmonds?
- McManaway, James G. (Folger Shakespeare Library) TLS to Anne C. Edmonds
- Edmonds, Anne C. TL to James G. McManaway
- McManaway, James G. TLS to Librarian
Repository Details
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South Hadley MA 01075-6425 USA
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