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This year sees still another accession to the ranks of the colleges for women. Bryn Mawr College which was founded in 1879 by Dr. Joseph Taylor was completed and formally opened to students at the beginning of the present college year. This institution is situated on the Pennsylvania Railroad about ten miles from Philadelphia. It has at present three buildings, a lecture hall, a dormitory and a gymnasium, while still another dormitory is still to be erected. The site of the college is a high hill in the midst of that picturesque and undulating country near Bryn Mawr which...
...settled in its present courses and methods, so that less and less change from year to year will be necessary. It has ended the conflict between prescribed and elective courses in the collegiate department by the substitution of the "group system," which has been adopted at Bryn Mawr College. Almost every young man will find that one of these seven avenues to a Bachelor's degree will prevent him from wasting time, and he has more than sufficient choice of studies to make it certain that he is not asked to devote himself to an uncongenial task to a greater...
...Woodrow Wilson, the author of "Congressional Government" which has excited so much attention, is a graduate of Princeton, Class '79, and has just accepted the position of Professor of History in Bryn Mawr College for women...
...increased, until now there are over 50, with prospects of a still larger number next year. The first class was graduated in 1883, and the graduates found little difficulty in securing excellent positions as teachers in various schools and colleges. Miss Gregory is a professor of History in Bryn Mawr College, near Philadelphia; Miss Byrd is a professor of Mathematics at Carleton College, Minnesota, and had charge of the Time Service at the observatory, when changes were made in the standard time last year...
...examination room. The laundry occupies a fourth building. The trustees of this college. under the will of the founder, are to be members of the Society of Friends. Some of the managers of the old Haverford school, now converted into a college, are also trustees of the Bryn Mawr institution. A part of its faculty has already been selected. Miss M. Carey Thomas, a daughter of Dr. James Carey Thomas of University of Zurich, Switzerland, has been appointed dean of the faculty and professor of English. and Edmund B. Wilson of Johns Hopkins University associate professor of biology...