{"id":49,"date":"2016-11-15T19:33:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T19:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/originsofcollections\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2016-11-30T23:02:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T23:02:10","slug":"career","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/originsofcollections\/","title":{"rendered":"A distinctive Founding Sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decades before Mignon was born changes were underway that would have a profound effect on her life. The eminent 19th century scientist, educator, and minister Edward Hitchcock of Amherst College was a major force in the development the natural sciences. Making clear connections between religious belief systems, scientific methods, and natural phenomena he became a noted figure on the national scale and in academic circles. <sup class='footnote'><a href='#marker-49-1' id='markerref-49-1' onclick='return footnotation_show(49)'>1<\/a><\/sup> Friends of Mount Holyoke\u2019s founder Mary Lyon, Reverend Hitchcock and his wife Orra no doubt influenced Lyon\u2019s plans for the Mount Holyoke Seminary to incorporate natural science into the curriculum.<\/p>\n<div class='footnotes' id='footnotes-49'>\n<div class='footnotedivider'><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li id='marker-49-1'> Miriam Levin, Defining Women\u2019s Scientific Enterprise: MHC Faculty and the Rise of American Science. (Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 2004), p 22. <span class='returnkey'><a href='#markerref-49-1'>&#8629;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decades before Mignon was born changes were underway that would have a profound effect on her life. The eminent 19th century scientist, educator, and minister Edward Hitchcock of Amherst College was a major force in the development the natural sciences. Making clear connections between religious belief systems, scientific methods, and natural phenomena he became a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":526,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/originsofcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/originsofcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/originsofcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/originsofcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/originsofcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/originsofcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/originsofcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/originsofcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}