. Some successful Americans . ighty-five students, more MARY LYON 51 than three hundred appHed for admission, and one hundredand sixteen were present at the opening. Three years laterthe buildings were sufficiently enlarged to accommodate twohundred and fifty students. Students came not from Massachusetts alone but fromnearly every state in the Union and from several foreigncountries. WhileMiss Lyon hadin mind theyoung womenwho were unableto attend expen-sive schools, andfor that reasonthe expense waslimited to onedollar and aquarter a week,from the outsetthere were manygirls fromwealthy famil
. Some successful Americans . ighty-five students, more MARY LYON 51 than three hundred appHed for admission, and one hundredand sixteen were present at the opening. Three years laterthe buildings were sufficiently enlarged to accommodate twohundred and fifty students. Students came not from Massachusetts alone but fromnearly every state in the Union and from several foreigncountries. WhileMiss Lyon hadin mind theyoung womenwho were unableto attend expen-sive schools, andfor that reasonthe expense waslimited to onedollar and aquarter a week,from the outsetthere were manygirls fromwealthy families,and pupils left other popular and fashionable schools toattend Mount Holyoke. The intellectual tone and moralstanding of the school were unexcelled. Miss Lyon died March 5, 1849, having contracted a con-tagious disease which broke out in the school a monthbefore. The mourning caused by her death was wide-spread. All her pupils were her friends, and they were tobe found in every state in the Union and in many Mary Lyon Hall 52 SOME SUCCESSFUL AMERICANS Few have done so much for others as did Mary Lyon,and still fewer have started movements that continue togrow and increase in usefulness. Her work has gonesteadily on. The school has grown from year to half a million dollars is now invested in the institu-tion. More than seven thousand students have been edu-cated there, and nearly three fourths of them have becometeachers or missionaries. Mary Lyon is dead, but who can say when her influencewill cease ? Every American girl who has received or isreceiving a higher education owes her a debt of gratitudewhich can never be paid but which may be recognized by<* lending a hand in forwarding the work which she began. The work of Mary Lyon will be very inadequatelymeasured if one considers merely her life work and theinfluence of Mount Holyoke, great as both of these record of her life will ever stand as an inspiration forevery ambitious American
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