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spring 2018

Open fan book, shaped like a half circle

Modest Archival Book Beautifully Illustrates Japanese Painted Fans

Japanese Fan Book Bequeathed to Mount Holyoke by Josephine Purtscher Fellows, class of 1924, when she died in 1986, Painted Fans of Japan: 15 Noh Drama Masterpieces is covered in brilliant red and gold fabric and takes the shape of a quarter of a circle.…... » Read more

Diploma from Mount Holyoke Seminary in Bitlis

Archives and Special Collections has in its collection a diploma from the Mount Holyoke Seminary in Bitlis, Turkey. Yellowed from time and dappled with water spots, the certificate shows lines indicating it was once folded in eighths, to the size that might fit in a…... » Read more

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Spring 2018 Books

The following is a list of books published by alumnae and faculty, or about alumnae, and received at the Alumnae Quarterly offices since the publication of the winter 2018 issue. To submit your work, please email quarterly@mtholyoke.edu. The Stendhal Summer Amika Press In the summer of 1992, public…... » Read more

Illustration of mug of chai

How Sharing Cups of Chai Led Sadia Khatri ’15 to Call Herself a Feminist

If walls could talk, the walls of the Eliot House lounge could tell you the stories of our lives. The stories we shared with each other of our childhoods and college years, our loves and losses, and the fervor with which we could spend an…... » Read more