its founding in 1837, Mount Holyoke has made
lasting impressions on its students.
The campus has expanded and evolved over the
years, due, in large part, to societal and
environmental changes. However, though elements
of the campus
seem to change with each passing
day, people are still able to remember their
own personal Mount Holyoke, in the way that
they experienced it.
Traditions have always been an important part of life
at Mount Holyoke
College. Many of these traditions are directly
tied to a specific place on campus. These
are the traditions that solidify personal
of a certain place and time.This personal
experience is the result of
personal interaction and relationships with
the landscape. There are specific places on
the Mount Holyoke campus that are associated
with the preservation of memory.
of these places continue
to be frequented by students today.
The formal and informal traditions associated
with these existing
places still exist in some form,
and are still associated with these memorable
places on campus.
places have since been lost.
sites are important, because they
only exist through memory. The memories associated
with these places are highly valued, because
they are able to preserve places exactly how
they existed in a single time and place.