Bryn Mawr

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Louise Brownell's room in Merion Hall, 1891

  • 1885: First admitted students
  • 1885: College chartered

"At Bryn Mawr, a Friends' College, the visitor is at once impressed by the scholarly atmosphere of the place. Girl students are discussing plans for further study, either at Alma Mater or abroad. The first college degree does not satisfy the Bryn Mawr girl's ambition... She loves knowledge for its own sake and not as a means to an end." (Hemment 4)

"To express her sense of the dignity of the academic tradition, [M. Carey] Thomas rejected the cottage system that the male founder had ordained, to create the first women's college that boldly proclaimed descent from the male collegiate tradition." (Horowitz 6)

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