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...Byrn Mawr is nine miles from Philadelphia, on the line of the Pennsylvania railroad, and is one of the prettiest places of summer resort within easy distance of the Quaker City. Its topography is picturesque. But one of the distinguishing features of Bryn Mawr hereafter is to be its college for the higher education of women, situate in the midst of 32 acres of choice land, and connected with which are the cottages already built and others yet to be built for the pleasant accommodation of the faculty and any overflow of students. This Bryn Mawr College "was founded...
Graduates of the Annex are already becoming useful as educations themselves. Progress accounts for several as follows: "Miss Gregory is a professor in the natural history department of Bryn Mawr College; Miss Byrd is professor of mathematics at Carleton College, Minnersville, and had charge of the changes in the time service. She gained all her practical knowledge in the Harvard Observatory under Professor Pickering while she was a student at the Annex. Another graduate was for a time a professor in Washburn College, Topeka, Kan., and is now in charge of the history department at Bradford Academy, Massachusetts...
Several of the buildings of the new Bryn Mawr college for women, started by the Quakers near Philadelphia, are nearly completed, and college work will soon be begun...
...large number of students have already entered their application for admission to Bryn Mawr college. The buildings are nearly completed and it is thought the institution will be opened next year...
...James E. Rhoads, of Philadelphia, was last Saturday elected President of Bryn Mawr College by the trustees, and Martha Carey Thomas, of Baltimore, Dean of the faculty and Professor of English. The institution will be opened to students in the autumn of 1885, and will adopt standards of admission and instruction equal to the highest in existing colleges for women in this country. Dr. Rhoads was named in the will of Dr. Joseph W. Taylor, the founder of Bryn Mawr College, as one of its trustees, and still holds that position. Martha Carey Thomas holds the degree...