{"id":128,"date":"2025-08-12T12:15:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/?page_id=128"},"modified":"2025-09-25T17:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:36:32","slug":"sisters-from-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/sisters-from-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisters from Around The World : International Students at Mount Holyoke from 1843 to 1930"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cosmopolitan Club, Lamarada<\/em> 1928<\/sub><\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mount Holyoke Seminary\u2019s first international students sought an education that was often unavailable to them in their home country. These remarkable women waded through the difficulties of international travel, culture shock, discrimination, and education in a second or third language, often hoping to bring the knowledge they gained to women in their home countries, or to American girls. Grace Paul, class of 1924, Mount Holyoke\u2019s first Sri Lankan international student, stated in an article written about her titled \u201cGrace Paul Trains Tamil Maidens to be Intelligent Wives and Mothers\u201d, published in 1931, \u201cI like your country (the United States), but my work is in my own land of Ceylon. There I am principal of the Anglo-vernacular Boarding School at Uduvil, an institution for girls which is over a century old. The fruit of these long years of work is a remarkably high position for women.\u201d After leaving Mount Holyoke, many students maintained a deep love and respect for the College. Toshi Miyagawa, class of 1893, Mount Holyoke\u2019s first Asian international student, wrote in her class letter in December of 1893, \u201cI am so glad the girls have a beautiful reading room, but don\u2019t you wish \u2018the glorious \u201993\u2019 could gather once more in that old lecture room and fight our old battles o\u2019er again?\u201d These women spread the legacy of Mount Holyoke\u2019s effect on women\u2019s education, bringing the benefits of women\u2019s college education to global frontiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click on the images below to learn about Mount Holyoke’s international students<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Susanna Major, class of 1843<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Toshi Miyagawa, class of 1893<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dora Mohinie Maya Das, class of 1909<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yau Tsit Law, class of 1916,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grace Paul, class of 1924<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rosa Yerenian, class of 1925<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sungsil Kim, class of 1929<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mount Holyoke Seminary\u2019s first international students sought an education that was often unavailable to them in their home country. These remarkable women waded through the difficulties of international travel, culture shock, discrimination, and education in a second or third language, often hoping to bring the knowledge they gained to women in their home countries, or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-nosidebar.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-128","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/internationalstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}