Showing posts with label Mount Holyoke College. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mount Holyoke College. Show all posts
Sunday, August 18, 2019
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Baby Houseman's Inner Conflict About Femininity -- Part 4
This article is Part 4 in a series, following Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.
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The Spark Notes summary of Simone de Beauvoir's book The Second Sex includes the following passages:
If Baby indeed did resent being socialized into femininity, then her thinking was misguided. Femininity is not entirely a product of socialization. Rather, it is a product also of evolved instinct and of self-directed learning.
* Some feelings and behaviors are instinctive because of human evolution. For example, females who behave in a feminine manner enjoy greater mating success, and so feminine instincts are passed down to their descendants.
* Children learn some behaviors in order to systemize their understanding of their world. During their very first years, children learn that about half of the population is male and about half is female. Each child recognizes his own sex and enjoys adopting its characteristics. The learning accomplishment itself is enjoyed.
* The socialization that de Beauvoir criticizes is one factor in the development of femininity, but it is only one factor and the last to develop.
During the Dirty Dancing story, Baby at age 17 resumes enjoying her feminine instincts and learning to act in a feminine manner. She will continue to be wary of excessive socialization in her femininity, but that concern will be limited to its proper proportion.
Below I will explain how all three factors --- instinct, learning and socialization -- contribute to femininity.
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Playing with dolls, is a feminine characteristic.
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A second feminine characteristic is to decorate their personal appearance. Females tend to groom their hair, paint their faces, and style their clothing much more decoratively than males do.
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Another feminine characteristic is to specially enjoy male attention and interest.
* Females who engage in courtship and mating behaviors with males enjoy greater reproductive success. Their female descendants tend to inherit a propensity to enjoy the attention and interest of males. They reflexively enjoy a natural pleasure that is distinct and special.
* Female children observe that older women often express such pleasure. A girl observes that her mother provides special affection and favor toward the girl's father, and so the girl learns that women relate to men in such a feminine manner. Therefore the girl herself learns and practices such feminine attitudes and behaviors, beginning toward her own father, in order develop as a female.
* Females also are socialized into striving to attract a man into romance and marriage. Such socialization is a major part of our culture, but it is only one factor that causes women to enjoy male attention and interest.
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Baby has been suppressing her urges to attract male attention, because she is planning on a many-year course of higher education and professional work that might be diverted by a romantic relationship. She plans to attend an all-women college for four years and then to work in the Peace Corp for at least two years.
In order to postpone male attention, she often dresses in loose clothing that hides her female shape, especially in the movie's beginning.
In her family's presence, Baby wears clothing that covers her body's physical shape. She favors long, loose sweaters that hang down past her hips. She wears form-fitting clothing when she practices dancing, but that dancing and clothing are not seen by her family -- especially by her father.
Baby seems to think her father is more pleased if her appearance and clothing are only moderately feminine.
The advantage that Baby perceives she enjoys over her sister Lisa is that their father respects Baby's seriousness more than Lisa's feminine frivolity.
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This is the fourth in a series of articles. Part 5, Part 6, Part 7.
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The Spark Notes summary of Simone de Beauvoir's book The Second Sex includes the following passages:
She [De Beauvoir] traces female development through its formative stages: childhood, youth, and sexual initiation. Her goal is to prove that women are not born “feminine” but shaped by a thousand external processes. She shows how, at each stage of her upbringing, a girl is conditioned into accepting passivity, dependence, repetition, and inwardness. Every force in society conspires to deprive her of subjectivity and flatten her into an object. Denied the possibility of independent work or creative fulfillment, the woman must accept a dissatisfying life of housework, childbearing, and sexual slavishness. ...It is unlikely that Baby Houseman had read The Second Sex, but it is likely that she was influenced indirectly by older women who had read the book. Baby's decision to attend an all-women college, Mount Holyoke College, probably was motivated by a desire to liberate herself, for at least four years, from being conditioned by older, established males to be passive, dependent, inward and mediocre.
De Beauvoir believes that woman’s inferiority in society is a result not of natural differences but of differences in the upbringing of man and woman. Male domination is not inherent or fated but conditioned at every stage of development. De Beauvoir says that “Man learns his power.” By the same token, woman is not born passive, mediocre, or immanent.
Rather, she is socialized to believe that proper women must embody these characteristics and, subtly and not subtly, she is conditioned to believe that denying her true self is the only way to achieve happiness and gain acceptance. To bring about substantial changes in society, young boys and girls must be educated differently from the outset. Since they are born equal, the possibility exists of their being equal in adulthood as well as in childhood — but it is up to society to change its skewed perspectives.
If Baby indeed did resent being socialized into femininity, then her thinking was misguided. Femininity is not entirely a product of socialization. Rather, it is a product also of evolved instinct and of self-directed learning.
* Some feelings and behaviors are instinctive because of human evolution. For example, females who behave in a feminine manner enjoy greater mating success, and so feminine instincts are passed down to their descendants.
* Children learn some behaviors in order to systemize their understanding of their world. During their very first years, children learn that about half of the population is male and about half is female. Each child recognizes his own sex and enjoys adopting its characteristics. The learning accomplishment itself is enjoyed.
* The socialization that de Beauvoir criticizes is one factor in the development of femininity, but it is only one factor and the last to develop.
During the Dirty Dancing story, Baby at age 17 resumes enjoying her feminine instincts and learning to act in a feminine manner. She will continue to be wary of excessive socialization in her femininity, but that concern will be limited to its proper proportion.
Below I will explain how all three factors --- instinct, learning and socialization -- contribute to femininity.
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Playing with dolls, is a feminine characteristic.
* To some extent, this behavior is instinctual. Human evolution causes females -- much more than males -- to enjoy natural pleasure reflexively when they nurture babies.The following photographs are from a family blog called the Grabers.
* To some extent, girls simply copy the examples of older females in order to practice being female. Girls observe that women take care of babies, and so girls practice and learn to become women by taking care of dolls.
* To some extent, this behavior also is socialized into girls. Adults provide special attention, praise and even adoration to girls who play with dolls.
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A second feminine characteristic is to decorate their personal appearance. Females tend to groom their hair, paint their faces, and style their clothing much more decoratively than males do.
* To some extent, this behavior might be instinctual. In many species, one of the sexes seems to have a much more decorative appearance that prompts the opposite sex's courtship and mating behaviors. In the human spieces, the decorative sex is the female sex. Women whose beauty attracts males enjoy greater mating success, and so their descendants inherit instinctive urges to enhance their appearance. Female humans instinctively feel some natural pleasure -- much more than males do -- when they are decorating themselves.
* To some extent, girls simply copy older females. Girls observe that older females decorate their personal appearances, and so girls learn and practice to become women by decorating themselves.
* To some extent, this behavior is taught to girls. Adults provide special attention, praise and even adoration to girls who make their appearance more decorative.
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Another feminine characteristic is to specially enjoy male attention and interest.
* Females who engage in courtship and mating behaviors with males enjoy greater reproductive success. Their female descendants tend to inherit a propensity to enjoy the attention and interest of males. They reflexively enjoy a natural pleasure that is distinct and special.
* Female children observe that older women often express such pleasure. A girl observes that her mother provides special affection and favor toward the girl's father, and so the girl learns that women relate to men in such a feminine manner. Therefore the girl herself learns and practices such feminine attitudes and behaviors, beginning toward her own father, in order develop as a female.
* Females also are socialized into striving to attract a man into romance and marriage. Such socialization is a major part of our culture, but it is only one factor that causes women to enjoy male attention and interest.
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Baby has been suppressing her urges to attract male attention, because she is planning on a many-year course of higher education and professional work that might be diverted by a romantic relationship. She plans to attend an all-women college for four years and then to work in the Peace Corp for at least two years.
In order to postpone male attention, she often dresses in loose clothing that hides her female shape, especially in the movie's beginning.
In her family's presence, Baby wears clothing that covers her body's physical shape. She favors long, loose sweaters that hang down past her hips. She wears form-fitting clothing when she practices dancing, but that dancing and clothing are not seen by her family -- especially by her father.
Baby seems to think her father is more pleased if her appearance and clothing are only moderately feminine.
The advantage that Baby perceives she enjoys over her sister Lisa is that their father respects Baby's seriousness more than Lisa's feminine frivolity.
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This is the fourth in a series of articles. Part 5, Part 6, Part 7.
Sunday, October 1, 2017
Thoughts of an Alumna of Mount Holyoke College
Joanna Arcieri, a graduate of Mount Holyoke College (the college where Baby Houseman was enrolled), writes a "film and media blog" called Cine-Fille. There she has published several articles about the movie Dirty Dancing.
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Arcieri's 2008 article titled The Time of Your Life includes the following passages.
Arcieri's 2009 article titled Dirty Dancing: Cementing Mount Holyoke’s place in pop culture includes the following passages:
Arcieri's 2012 article titled What I Learned From Dirty Dancing includes the following passages.
I have published a blog article titled Mount Holyoke College.
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| Joanna Arcieri |
Arcieri's 2008 article titled The Time of Your Life includes the following passages.
Not only is Dirty Dancing one my all-time favorite movies, but it is also the quintessential Mount Holyoke film. Now that I’ve been a student at MHC for almost two years, Dirty Dancing takes on a whole different meaning.======
Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman, class of 1967, is one of our most celebrated (fictional) alumnae. Dirty Dancing is ranked in the top 10 favorite movies for Mount Holyoke students on Facebook (the go-to guide for all statistical evidence about a college). There is even an on-campus push to have t-shirts made that say, “Nobody puts a Mount Holyoke woman in a corner”.
When watching Dirty Dancing with a group of MoHos you are bound to encounter several eerily familiar moments. They include but are not limited to:
1) The fear that you will end up with that chauvinist who goes to Cornell or Yale because he is the only guy who ever heard about Mount Holyoke and therefore will be able to appreciate your intelligence.
2) The coming into your sexuality. For Baby it involved learning how to dance and changing her clothes. For a Mount Holyoke student, it requires chopping off your hair, wearing flannel and joining the Rugby/Crew/Ice Hockey teams. .... [The list comprises 5 items.]
When my friends and I were watching Dirty Dancing for the umpteenth time, we started discussing whether or not Johnny Castle actually deflowered Baby. I’m not kidding. In true Moho fashion, we analyzed the scene where Baby goes to Johnny’s tent/cabin and they dance, leading to their first time together. We paused and rewound the DVD like true investigators.
Some argued, “Of course he was her first! They were first loves”; other argued, “Look at how she is acting. Girl, clearly knew what she was doing.” We never decided anything.
Arcieri's 2009 article titled Dirty Dancing: Cementing Mount Holyoke’s place in pop culture includes the following passages:
.... Dirty Dancing, in particular, generates a special reaction because of its unique place in Mount Holyoke culture. ....======
Baby is a woman of the 1960s who aspires to change the world. But despite her intelligence and ambition, she is awkward and shy; her first dance with Johnny is horribly uncomfortable to watch as Baby unsuccessfully imitates more skilled dancers. It takes her relationship with Johnny to help her come into her own and vice versa. The final sequence becomes a testament to how these characters have grown from knowing each other. ...
For the most part, we represent a generation that grew up with Dirty Dancing, whether it was shown repeatedly on television (it frequently appears on 24- hour Labor Day marathons) or just from hearing its infamous lines, such as “I carried a watermelon,” constantly recited.
It is not surprising then that the first place I read about [Patrick] Swayze’s death was on a friend’s Twitter page. This was followed by countless friends paying tribute to Swayze via their Facebook status and these tributes overwhelmingly came from my Mount Holyoke friends. For many Mount Holyoke students, Dirty Dancing is a vital part of the Mount Holyoke experience.
While we will never know if Baby actually got her B.A. in Economics and joined the Peace Corps, the mere fact that Dirty Dancing mentions Mount Holyoke gives this college a unique place in American pop culture. Patrick Swayze’s role in that has added a new phrase in the Mount Holyoke lexicon: “Nobody puts a Mount Holyoke woman in a corner.”
Arcieri's 2012 article titled What I Learned From Dirty Dancing includes the following passages.
.... I have seen this movie so many times, it has probably become detrimental to my well-being. For example, I honestly believe it takes exactly three weeks to fall in love and learn to mambo. In real life, this is impossible because no matter what you will end up with spaghetti arms. As I was watching Dirty Dancing this past weekend for the one millionth time, I made some of the same old observations as well as some new discoveries. Here they are.Arcieli lists 11 more "old observations and new discoveries". Without Arcieli's elaborations (which you can read in her article), they are:
1. Never get involved with the entertainment staff.
If you hang out with the entertainment staff, you will find yourself mixed up with a bad crowd. You will disobey your parents, help a complete stranger get an illegal abortion, learn the mambo (going “ugh” is optional) and fraternize with people of different socioeconomic status. You will also have the time of your life. The entertainment staff is clearly terrible at their jobs.
2. Watermelons are awful conversation starters.=======
3. The Catskills in 1963 were a progressive wonderland.
4. Rick and Sam retired to the Catskills
5. Trying on wigs for fun is something only rich people do.
6. Guys who attend the Cornell School of Management are the worst.
7. Older women, snobby waiters, and elderly Jewish couples are also terrible.
8. You should want a sister like Lisa.
9. Jake Houseman is the ideal father.
10. Everybody dances and America wins.
11. All smart, somewhat shy, and sometimes painfully awkward young women should be more like Baby.
12. And the most important lesson of all -- Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
I have published a blog article titled Mount Holyoke College.
Saturday, September 9, 2017
Uncertainty About the Dates of the Housemans' Vacation
In August 2015, I published in this blog an article titled The Housemans Stayed at the Resort Three Weeks. There I explained my calculation that their vacation lasted from August 10 through September 2, 1963. Since I published that article two years ago, I have used that time-frame in many other articles.
This morning, however, I woke up from a nightmare in which I realized that my calculation might be wrong. I was dreaming about Baby Houseman, after her family vacation, showing up at Mount Holyoke College to begin her school year. My nightmare was like a David Lynch movie.
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In this morning's nightmare, Satan himself announced gleefully to me:
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My worst fear was confirmed quickly by an Internet search. According to Mount Holyoke College's current academic calendar, new students are supposed to arrive on campus on the Friday before the Labor Day weekend.
If that was the rule in 1963, then Baby was supposed to arrive at Mount Holyoke on Friday, August 30, 1963. If so, then the Houseman's family three-week vacation must be shifted a week earlier to August 3-25.
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This Satanic revelation was a crisis for me and my blog. I sure did not want to re-write all the articles that mentioned dates within that framework. For example, I have published an article The Beatles' Activities During the Housemans' Vacation that detailed the Beatles' activities from August 10 to September 2, 1963.
I already have written much of a future article about Lee Harvey Oswald's activities during that same period as he prepared to assassinate President Kennedy.
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Then I re-read my 2015 article and found that my calculation might be correct after all. That article includes the following passage:
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There is one other consideration about the vacation's dates. In a blog article titled The Undertones to Dirty Dancing, I wrote about a video in which scriptwriter Eleanor Bergstein herself in an interview remarked that the Houseman parents scheduled their vacation to prevent Baby from attending the March on Washington, which took place on August 28, 1963.
If the Housemans had returned home on August 25, then Baby should have been able to travel to Washington DC by August 28. Therefore, the Housemans must have been at Kellerman's through the last week of August.
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I decided to stick to my original calculation that the vacation lasted from August 10 through September 2, 1963. I remained puzzled, however, about when Baby was supposed to show up at Mount Holyoke.
Searching in the website Newspapers, I found the following article in the Berkshire Eagle newspaper, published in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on September 5, 1963, reporting that classes would begin no earlier than September 23.
I found also this article in the Berkshire Eagle, in the issue dated September 19, 1963. Although the article does not mention Mount Holyoke College, it does indicate that many colleges in the region began classes in the second half of September.
This morning, however, I woke up from a nightmare in which I realized that my calculation might be wrong. I was dreaming about Baby Houseman, after her family vacation, showing up at Mount Holyoke College to begin her school year. My nightmare was like a David Lynch movie.
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In this morning's nightmare, Satan himself announced gleefully to me:
Baby Houseman was supposed
to arrive at Mount Holyoke College
before the Labor Day weekend !!!
My worst fear was confirmed quickly by an Internet search. According to Mount Holyoke College's current academic calendar, new students are supposed to arrive on campus on the Friday before the Labor Day weekend.
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| In 2017, new students are supposed to arrive at Mount Holyoke College on the Friday before Labor Day Weekend |
If that was the rule in 1963, then Baby was supposed to arrive at Mount Holyoke on Friday, August 30, 1963. If so, then the Houseman's family three-week vacation must be shifted a week earlier to August 3-25.
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| The shift of the three-week vacation that would enable Baby Houseman to arrive at Mount Holyoke on August 30, the Friday before Labor Day of 1963. |
This Satanic revelation was a crisis for me and my blog. I sure did not want to re-write all the articles that mentioned dates within that framework. For example, I have published an article The Beatles' Activities During the Housemans' Vacation that detailed the Beatles' activities from August 10 to September 2, 1963.
I already have written much of a future article about Lee Harvey Oswald's activities during that same period as he prepared to assassinate President Kennedy.
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Then I re-read my 2015 article and found that my calculation might be correct after all. That article includes the following passage:
Right before Johnny almost punches the waiter outside a cabin, someone remarks: "Well, cousin, it's almost over. Labor Day weekend is here."(I don't know who said the remark, because it is missing from my TV recording, which has been cut for TV commercials. I use a dialogue transcript that does not identify the speakers.)
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There is one other consideration about the vacation's dates. In a blog article titled The Undertones to Dirty Dancing, I wrote about a video in which scriptwriter Eleanor Bergstein herself in an interview remarked that the Houseman parents scheduled their vacation to prevent Baby from attending the March on Washington, which took place on August 28, 1963.
If the Housemans had returned home on August 25, then Baby should have been able to travel to Washington DC by August 28. Therefore, the Housemans must have been at Kellerman's through the last week of August.
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I decided to stick to my original calculation that the vacation lasted from August 10 through September 2, 1963. I remained puzzled, however, about when Baby was supposed to show up at Mount Holyoke.
Searching in the website Newspapers, I found the following article in the Berkshire Eagle newspaper, published in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on September 5, 1963, reporting that classes would begin no earlier than September 23.
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| Classes in 1963 began no earlier than September 23. |
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| On September 19, a newspaper article reports that many students are beginning college classes. |
Sunday, June 18, 2017
Mount Holyoke College
When Baby Houseman and Neil Kellerman are introduced, the following dialogue takes place.
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A Pinterest page provides many more pictures of the college and students.
The Wikipedia article about Mount Holyoke College includes the following passages:
The following video is not dated, but it looks like it was made at the end of the 1950s or beginning of the 1960s.
The following video shows Mount Holyoke College's dance facilities.
The following video, made in 2014, shows some students dancing in the cafeteria.
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The movie Animal House was released in the same year 1978 as Dirty Dancing. Animal House takes place in 1962, and Dirty Dancing takes place in 1963.
In one part of Animal House, four members of the slovenly Delta Tau Chi fraternity attempt to seduce four prim and proper but gullible students at "Emily Dickinson College" (i.e. Mount Holyoke College).
Max KellermanNeil assumed that Baby would major in English because Mount Holyoke College was famous especially for the female writers who had studied there. Those who graduated before 1963 included the following:
Doc, I want you to meet someone. My grandson Neil -- goes to the Cornell School of Hotel Management.
Jake Houseman
Baby's starting Mount Holyoke in the fall.
Neil Kellerman
Oh, great. .... Are you going to major in English?
Baby Houseman
No -- economics of underdeveloped countries. I'm going into the Peace Corps.
Emily Dickinson, (attended 1847-1848) - poet
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, (attended 1870-1871) - novelist and short story writer
Anne W. Armstrong, (attended 1890–1892) - novelist
Caroline Henderson, 1901 - Dust Bowl author
Alice Geer Kelsey, 1918 - writer, children's literature
Charlotte Wilder, 1919 - poet
Kathryn Irene Glascock, 1922 - poet
Constance McLaughlin Green, 1925 (Master's degree) - historian who won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for History for Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878
Roberta Teale Swartz, 1925 - poet
Virginia Hamilton Adair, 1933 - poet
Janet Huntington Brewster, 1933 - writer and radio broadcaster
Martha Whitmore Hickman, 1947 - non-fiction author
Jean Rikhoff, 1948 - author
Nancy McKenzie, 1948 - Arthurian legend author
Martha Henissart, 1950 - mystery author writing under the pen-name of Emma Lathen with Mary Jane Latsis
Nancy Bauer (Nancy Luke), 1956 - non-fiction author
Elizabeth Topham Kennan, 1960 - author writing under the pen-name of Clare Munnings with Jill Ker Conway
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| A view of the campus of Mount Holyoke College |
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| Another view of the campus of Mount Holyoke College |
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| Some students of Mount Holyoke College in 1963 |
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| Graduation Day in 1963 |
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| Martin Luther King visiting the college in October 1963 |
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| The cast of a play, "Once Upon a Park", performed in 1963. (Click on the image to enlarge it.) |
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| Students eating milk and crackers in 1963 |
The Wikipedia article about Mount Holyoke College includes the following passages:
Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the first member of the Seven Sisters colleges, and it served as a model for some of the others. Mount Holyoke is part of the Pioneer Valley's Five College Consortium, along with Amherst College, Smith College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.======
The school was founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Mary Lyon had previously founded Wheaton Female Seminary (now Wheaton College) in Norton, Massachusetts, in 1834. Mount Holyoke received its collegiate charter in 1888 as Mount Holyoke Seminary and College and became Mount Holyoke College in 1893. ...
Mount Holyoke's buildings were designed between 1896 and 1960. It has a Donald Ross-designed 18-hole golf course, The Orchards, which served as host to the U.S. Women's Open in 2004. U.S. News and World Report lists Mount Holyoke as the 35th best liberal arts college in the United States in its 2016 rankings. In 2011–2012, Mount Holyoke was one of the nation's top producers of Fulbright Scholars, ranking fourth among bachelor's institutions ...
Mount Holyoke's founder, Mary Lyon, is considered by many scholars to have been an innovator in the area of women's education. Her establishment of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was part of a larger movement to create institutions of higher education for young women during the first half of the 19th century. ... Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was originally chartered as a teaching seminary in 1836 and opened its doors to students on 8 November 1837. Both Vassar College and Wellesley College were patterned after Mount Holyoke.
From its founding in 1837, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary "had no religious affiliation". However, "students were required to attend church services, chapel talks, prayer meetings, and Bible study groups. Twice a day teachers and students spent time in private devotions. Every dorm room had two large lighted closets to give roommates privacy during their devotions".
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was the sister school to Andover Seminary. Some Andover graduates looked to marry students from the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before becoming missionaries because the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) required its missionaries to be married before starting their missions. By 1859 there were more than 60 missionary alumnae; by 1887 the school's alumnae comprised one-fifth of all female American missionaries for the ABCFM; and by the end of the century, 248 of its alumnae had entered the mission field. ....
The following video is not dated, but it looks like it was made at the end of the 1950s or beginning of the 1960s.
The following video shows Mount Holyoke College's dance facilities.
The following video, made in 2014, shows some students dancing in the cafeteria.
The movie Animal House was released in the same year 1978 as Dirty Dancing. Animal House takes place in 1962, and Dirty Dancing takes place in 1963.
In one part of Animal House, four members of the slovenly Delta Tau Chi fraternity attempt to seduce four prim and proper but gullible students at "Emily Dickinson College" (i.e. Mount Holyoke College).
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Bit 05 - Ballroom Dance
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| Neil Kellerman and Baby Houseman |
Date of Scene
Saturday, August 10, 1963
Evening
Scene Description
Dialogue
Neil Kellerman
Are you going to major in English?
Baby Houseman
No. Economics of underdeveloped countries. I'm going into the Peace Corps.
Neil Kellerman
After the final show, I'm going to Mississippi with a couple of busboys, freedom ride.
Max Kellerman
(Addressing the dancing guests from the stage)
This is our own Tito Suarez.
Neil Kellerman
Mambo! Yeah! Come on!
(Johnny Castle and Penny Johnson come onto the dance floor and begin dancing)
Baby Houseman
Who's that?
Neil Kellerman
Oh, them. They're the dance people. They're here to keep the guests happy. They shouldn't show off with each other. That's not gonna sell lessons.
Jake Houseman
(Dancing with Marjorie, addresses Baby and Neil)
Hi, kids. Having fun?
Neil Kellerman
(Addressing Jake)
Yeah. Actually, I've gotta excuse myself. I'm in charge of the games tonight.
(Addressing Baby)
Say, would you like to help me get things started?
Jake Houseman
Sure she would.
Song Lyrics
None
While Johnny and Penny dance, the band plays the song "Johnny's Mambo".
Remarks
Bit 04 - First Evening Dinner
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| Max Kellerman seats the Houseman family to their table |
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| Neil and Max Kellerman |
Date of Scene
Saturday, August 10, 1963
In the evening
Scene Description
Dialogue
Max Kellerman
Sit down and I'll get you some wine.
Jake Houseman
Thank you, Max.
Max Kellerman
(Addressing the waiter Robbie Gould)
This is Dr. and Mrs. Houseman.
(Addressing Baby and Lisa Houseman)
Baby, Lisa, this is your waiter, Robbie Gould.
Robbie Gould
Yale medical school.
Max Kellerman
(Addressing Robbie)
Robbie, these people are my special guests. Give them anything they want.
(Addressing the Housemans)
Enjoy.
Jake Houseman
Thanks, Max.
Marjorie Houseman
Look at all this leftover food. Are there still starving children in Europe?
Baby Houseman
Try Southeast Asia, Ma.
Marjorie Houseman
Right.
Jake Houseman
(Addressing Robbie)
Robbie, Baby wants to send her leftover pot roast to Southeast Asia, so anything we don't finish, wrap it up.
(Addressing Max)
Max, our Baby's gonna change the world.
Max Kellerman
(Addressing Lisa)
And what are you gonna do, Missy?
Baby Houseman
Lisa's gonna decorate it.
Robbie Gould
(Smiling toward Lisa)
She already does.
Max Kellerman
(Addressing Jake)
Doc, I want you to meet someone. My grandson Neil. Goes to the Cornell School of Hotel Management.
Jake Houseaman
Baby's starting Mount Holyoke in the fall.
Neil Kellerman
Oh, great.
Song Lyrics
None
Remarks
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