Bryn Mawr College - Bryn Mawr Yearbook (Bryn Mawr, PA)

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THE LIBRARY CLOISTER BEFORE BUILDING OF THE WEST WING Bryn Mawr history goes back long before the founding of the college. George Washington marched his arniy down Old Gulph Road to Valley Forge, when the road was no more than a cart path and there was no temptation for the troops to disregard the 10:30 rule. The neighboring town, once Possum Town, and later Humphreysville, had been renamed Bryn Mawr (Welsh for high hill ) because it was the highest point within a ten-mile radius of Philadelphia. Here Taylor picked the high and healthy tract of land because it was sure to be malaria-free, and founded his Quaker College for women. A VICTORIAN ROOM IN PEM EAST GIBSON GIRLS UNDER PEM ARCH Page eleven

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' ;»»;; THE fflGH HILL IN 1885. A POST-WORLD WAR I FACULTY SALARY DRIVE Time called us history-haunted Bryn Mawr girls , but since few of us are so lucky as to have lived in pre-turn-of-the-century houses before coming to college, we are quite content to chalk up Merion ' s lack of closets and rationing of light wattage to atmosphere , remembering that be- fore 1903 every girl had only one alcohol lamp with which she studied, which lighted her to bed, and over which she roasted marshmallows. It isn ' t every girl who can take music classes in an old Saxon hall within the flying-buttressed walls of Goodhart, and study in a replica of the dining-hall at Wadham College, Oxford, where in the evening M. Carey Thomas is likely to yield to her yen to step out of her portrait and amble down the aisles between the desks. How- ever, although the library porch is a copy of that of the Oriel College Chapel, we are sure that the chapel ' s saints couldn ' t hold a candle to the papier-mache nudes which have appeared in our niches ! And when we realize that antique landmarks on the continent were measured and copied, Gothic arches and ruined cloisters visited and revisited before Bryn Mawr took shape, what does it matter if the hot water sometimes runs cold?

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TOYNBEE MRS. F. D. R. and ANNA LORD STRAUSS ALFRED BARR, JR. Page twelve