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BRYN MAWR COLLEGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 700 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COLLEGE , an institution of advanced learning for See also:women, at Bryn Mawr, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 5 m. W. of See also:Philadelphia. The site occupies 52 acres and overlooks a broad expanse of See also:rolling See also:country. The buildings are of See also:grey See also:stone in the Jacobean See also:Gothic See also:style, and consist of an See also:administration and lecture See also:hall, a See also:science hall, a library containing in 1998 about 55,00o volumes mostly for See also:special study, a gymnasium, a See also:hospital and six halls of See also:residence. The requirements for matriculation are high; students are required to choose their studies according to the " See also:group See also:system," which permits them to specialize in two or more subjects; and instruction is given largely by means of lectures. The college is open to " hearers " who are not required to matriculate, to undergraduate matriculated students who are not studying for a degree, to undergraduate matriculated students who are candidates for the degree of B.A., and to See also:graduate students who are candidates for the degree of M.A. or Ph.D. The See also:government rests in a See also:board of thirteen trustees and sixteen See also:directors, all the trustees being members of the board of directors. The See also:president of the college is a trustee and director. The institution was founded by Dr See also:Joseph W. See also:Taylor (1810-188o), a member of the Society of Orthodox See also:Friends, and he provided that the trustees also should be members, but otherwise Bryn Mawr College is non-sectarian. It was incorporated in r88o, and was opened for instruction in 1885. In 19o8 it had 419 students.

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