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Taylor Hall, the College’s administration and classroom
building, with “eight cut blue stone brackets” on its tower,
was named for the founder of Bryn Mawr College, Joseph
Wright Taylor.

On the steps below Taylor Tower, Bryn Mawr’s first class,
which entered in 1885, was photographed in 1886 with the
first faculty. Seated, upper left, Dean M. Carey Thomas;
center, President James E. Rhoads. Standing, upper left,
mathematician Charlotte Angas Scott; upper right, political
scientist Woodrow Wilson.

TITLE PAGE

Bryn Mawr, “high hill” in Welsh, is seen from the northwest
with fenced farmland where the athletic fields were later
constructed. The photograph was made in the 1890s by
Phillips Photographers of Philadelphia.

INSIDE BACK COVER
Fritz Janschka, Professor of Fine Art at Bryn Mawr, drew this
map of the campus.
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Photographs from the Bryn Mawr College Archives, the
Alumnae Bulletin, and the Office of Public Information

Selection and text: Caroline S. Rittenhouse and Leo M. Dolenski
Photographic reproductions: Karl A. Dimler
Design: Barbara Sosson Design

A publication of the Bryn Mawr College Libraries
Director: James Tanis

Copyright 1985
Bryn Mawr College Library
All rights reserved










ryn Mawr College was founded by Joseph Wright Taylor,

a Quaker physician from Burlington, New Jersey. He
chose the site, a hill on the Main Line eleven miles west of
Philadelphia, and under his supervision two buildings were
begun. Designed by Addison Hutton, one was for classes and
administrative offices and one a residence hall. Taylor died in
1880, endowing the College in his will: “| have been impressed
with the need of such a place for the advanced education of
our young female Friends, and to have all the advantages of

a College education which are so freely offered to young men.”





ames E. Rhoads, first president of Bryn Mawr and a
member of the Society of Friends with wide-ranging
= concerns, was one of the trustees responsible for the
original planning for the College.
Phillips Photographers

he College opened September 23, 1885. After the opening ceremonies, students and
some of their professors were photographed on the side steps of Taylor Hall by George
Vaux, distinguished Quaker lawyer, mineralogist, photographer, and friend of the College.

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any of the marble busts from the corridors of Taylor Hall are now in the Baltimore

Museum of Art, to which M. Carey Thomas, first dean and second president of
the College, bequeathed them. (They had been a personal gift to her from Baltimore
friend Mary Garrett.) A grandfather clock still stands in the front hall.





| Hae contained offices, the assembly room, library, all lecture
rooms and laboratories, and the college bookshop. The library
was located in rooms at the northern end of the first floor. After a new
library was completed in 1907, this part of the building became lecture
rooms D and E.
In 1885 Bryn Mawr was the only women’s college to offer the Ph.D.,
and special libraries were provided for graduate students. The History

and Political Science Library was on the third floor of Taylor over the
President's Office.

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his portrait of Miss Thomas is by

Mathilde Weil 92. Miss Weil had a brief
but important career as one of the first
women photographers in Philadelphia. Miss
Thomas wrote to her in 1930: “I still regard
the pictures you took of me in my study as
the best | have ever had taken.”



Bh M. Carey Thomas became President Thomas, “P.T.” to students, in 1894. Many alumnae
remember her best for her talks at the 8:45 morning services in the two-storied assembly
room, which by 1905 was often called the chapel. On the second floor of Taylor, the doors at the
front opened across the hall from the President's Office. At Bryn Mawr’s Fiftieth Anniversary in
1935, Miss Thomas quoted the letter which pleased her most: “Dear President Thomas: | have
forgotten everything | learned at Bryn Mawr, but | still see you standing in chapel and telling us to
believe in women.”




WB ees Hall, built in 1892-1893, gave considerably more

space to the laboratories, classrooms, and collections of the
science departments, thus advancing one of President Rhoads’s
particular interests. Across Merion Avenue from Dalton, Cartref, then
the President’s house, is visible. The Deanery (the name was kept, as
President Park noted, “throughout President Thomas's reign and
under her heirs, the Alumnae Association”) was on the edge of the
campus (just visible at the right side of the title-page photograph).







ryn Mawr students were noted for their tradition of wearing caps
and gowns.

he growing College soon needed more rooms for students.
Radnor Hall was completed in 1887, the first collegiate Gothic
building designed by architects Cope and Stewardson.


Br was part of the original curriculum, and the skeleton, shown

in a laboratory in Taylor, was a gift from Miss Thomas. When a new
biology building was completed in 1959, Professor Mary Gardiner gave the
skeleton a ride in her car to its new quarters.





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department had the ground floor, biology the second
floor, and chemistry the third. The geology department
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enbigh Hall, continuing the collegiate Gothic style of Radnor,

had been completed in 1891. On March 16, 1902, it was
gutted by fire. The students all escaped safely. The fire was
extinguished with help from Haverford College men.

The Class of 1905 sang:

You can bet your boots

that they were on the spot.

They hustled round to help the gals
that slept where it was hot.

enbigh was rebuilt. Since an overturned oil lamp was

thought to have caused the fire, Miss Thomas finally
persuaded the trustees to have electricity installed on the cam-
pus, replacing gas and the students’ lamps. Electric light, heat,
and hot water were furnished by a central power plant completed
in 1903, funded by a gift from John D. Rockefeller. Part of the
power plant is now the physical plant office, named for James
Ward, Head Groundsman at the College for many years.







ingle rooms and suites with two bedrooms and a shared study
were offered to students. Although the College furnished each
study with a bookcase, study-tables, armchairs, and lamps, students
decorated with Victorian profusion, often adding tea tables.
Emma Bailey Speer and Abby Brayton Durfee, both Class of 1894,
are seen in their Denbigh study. They were known to their friends as
“the Banks and Braes.”





me Tsuda, student from Japan, 1889 to 1892, with Anna Powers,

Class of 1890, in Merion Hall. Miss Tsuda was one of the first of
Bryn Mawr's illustrious foreign students. In 1917 the Chinese Scholar-
ship was established; more recently, additional scholarships have
helped applicants from many other countries come to Bryn Mawr.







n early years tennis was played on Merion Green.
Basketball was played outdoors.

ompleted in 1896, the athletic field, below Faculty

Row, was converted in winter into a large skating-pond. eS

Adola Greely Adams '04 Album

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Gift of Abby Slade Brayton Durfee '94
fter British sportswoman Constance Applebee was
appointed athletic director in 1904, field hockey

became an important part of Bryn Mawr life. She not only
took over the physical education department but was
active in the students’ Christian Association. She also was
faculty advisor for the College News, established in 1914.
“The Apple” was famous for fierce coaching: “Keep your
hands on your stick, you silly ass,” was a typical order;
however, she had a philosophy: “I began teaching an
approach to games. There had to be a physical side which
was also a health side, not to injure yourself. There had to
be a mental side which controlled your actions; you saw
the great power and strategy of games. You had to have
the spiritual side which said love your neighbor even if you
wouldn't let her have the ball.”







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© pinata (right) was the first residence hall to be built under

Carey Thomas's presidency. She worked closely with Cope and
Stewardson to plan the double hall. Beneath a central tower with a
joint kitchen and dining room was the arch which formed the new
entrance to the College. Pembroke East was completed in 1894, and
Pembroke West in 1896. The main entrance to the College through
Pembroke Arch was refurbished in 1984 and named McBride Gateway.

he new library building (below) begun in 1904 was Walter Cope’s

adaptation of Carey Thomas's desire for Oxfordian design. The
exterior was of “gray stone in Jacobean Gothic of the period of 1630”;
the porch was patterned after that of Oriel College Chapel; the Great
Hall of Wadham College became the Reading Room; and the Cloisters
resembled those found in several locations in England. When the
library was completed in 1907, it was described as the “gift of friends,
graduates, and students of the College” and was called the Donors’
Library. In 1935 the building was named in honor of M. Carey Thomas.

he gargoyles in the Cloisters (lower right) were carved in 1909 by
Alec Miller, photographed in action by a student.





















he original entrance to the College

(left) was a “Private Path” between
stone pillars beginning at the corner of
Yarrow Road and Merion Avenue, where
Rockefeller Hall was built in 1903-1904.
The Lantern Man was a watchman and at
night escorted College women from the
train station to the campus.





















ockefeller Hall (lower left), as it looked

when completed in 1904, bare of the
ivy and wisteria which covered it until
removed to protect the mortar. The
buildings of the early campus are now in
the National Register of Historic Places.

[° 1903 there was a great deal of digging
and construction on campus: for the
new library, Rockefeller Hall, and the new
light and power lines. Students sang:
“Curses on your ditches, oh Bryn Mawr.”

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a bs ritual of sophomores giving lanterns to freshmen
began in 1886, when the first class became the first
sophomores. Lanterns were often presented after humorous
skits and not always at night. The Class of 1909 was the first
to present their lanterns in the Cloisters at night. “The arrange-
ment of the cloister walks and the architecturally simple
appearance of the stonework in the cloister make it an
eminently suitable place in which to hold Lantern Night,”
wrote Marianne Moore ’09.

Hicrretins originally occurred in mid-May after Miss
Thomas announced from her office window to those
waiting below that the last senior had passed her orals in
French and German. If the whole class did not pass, the
hoops were to be broken. The Class of 1917 was the last to
take “oral orals,” and the Class of 1921 the first to roll their
hoops on May Day.


liv first Big May Day was held in 1900. After heralds led the procession through Pembroke Arch to
Merion Green for Maypole dancing, masques and plays were presented throughout the day. The
St George mummers’ play reemerged in the 1970s with a feminist heroine to confront a variety of
dragons. Helen MacCoy, Class of 1900, never forgot the first Big May Day: “It was enormous, beautiful.

We gave all Elizabethan things, wore Elizabethan clothes. Only thing wrong was that there weren't any
real men!”



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resident William Howard Taft visited the

College several times while his daughter
Helen was a student. (She later became Dean,
then Acting President, and finally Professor of
History at the College.) In this photograph, her
father, with President Thomas, is on his way to
give the 1910 Commencement Address. Miss Taft
is at the top of the steps on the left. Hilda Smith
10 described the event: “President Taft was our
speaker, and the ceremonies were held in the
cloister under a huge awning. ... As we were lined
up to march in, we had a long wait. Someone
brought the word, ‘The President has lost his
clothes,’ meaning, | suppose, his academic robes.
Soon a reassuring message came down our line,
‘He is coming anyway, without them.’”



















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well-known poets. Seen in this snapshot from
the album of Mildred Pressinger von Kienbusch
‘09 are her classmates Marianne Moore, second
from right, and Hilda Doolittle, third from left, in
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lass plays were often elaborately costumed. Some were original: The /nevitable,

presented by the Class of 1917 as its Junior Show, included suffragettes,
spoofing the serious suffragists. Many students felt woman's suffrage was inevitable:
“Let's get on with it.”

The Faculty Rebellion of 1915 to 1916 took place unphotographed. The faculty
declared its independence from arbitrary decisions of President Thomas and set forth a
plan for the government of the College. The Student Self-Government Association,
established in 1892, made Bryn Mawr the first college to allow students to regulate
their own conduct; however, an honor system for academic matters did not become
a reality until the 1950s.

Alice Beardwood ‘17 Album






M Carey Thomas established three innovative educational projects:

in 1913 the Phebe Anna Thorne Model School was opened, with
progressive teaching in the open air in pagodas erected between the

College Inn and Cartref; in 1915 the Carola Woerishoffer Graduate Depart-
ment of Social Economy and Social Research was established, the first
graduate department in the country to offer professional training in social
work, with Susan Kingsbury (above) as its director; in 1921 the Bryn Mawr
Summer School for Women Workers in Industry began its sessions on campus.


hotographs of students in the years after World War | tend to

show non-academic scenes: students at Rockefeller, 1919; in
a snowball fight between freshmen and sophomores in front of

Merion, 1920; and enjoying a mysterious treat, probably in
Pembroke, in 1923.

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n October 27, 1919, Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians visited
Bryn Mawr, in gratitude for support from the College
“during World War I. Her visit was “the most spectacular publicity
of the autumn” for the Campaign for Two Million. Students and
visitors took many photographs of her, but she also had a
camera. The photograph was contributed by Jane Burges
Perrenot '22 to the album of Emily Anderson Farr '22. They in
turn were photographed in Rosemary with their classmate
Cornelia Otis Skinner at left.



Emily Anderson Farr '22 Album

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nother well-known Bryn Mawr actress in an early role: Katharine Hepburn ‘28, second from right, as Oliver in A. A. Milne’s
The Truth about Blayds, presented in 1927 by the College Varsity Dramatics group.

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ieaarspaseiize 1920: commencements were moved in 1909 from the chapel to the “new” gymnasium, where guests and
potted plants shared the running track.

The 1920s and 1930s were decades when the undergraduate and graduate curricula were revised: the double major was

abolished, honors introduced, and comprehensive examinations adopted for seniors; new requirements were also instituted for
the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees.

President Park, who gave an illustrated talk on College history during the Fiftieth Anniversary celebration, noted that the
academic changes were “spiritually, if not photographically, more important” than could be shown with slides.

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he Marjorie Walter Goodhart Hall was com-

pleted in 1928, providing an auditorium for
audiences at commencements, concerts, and
special lectures by notable visitors, such as the
Mary Flexner lecturers in the humanities and
the Anna Howard Shaw speakers on social
sciences.










resident Marion Edwards Park was inaugurated in 1922. Miss

Park is remembered for her speeches on international affairs
in the dark years of the late 1930s. Many also recall her love of
music and encouragement of concerts on campus. Commence-
ments at which she presided, starting in 1923, began with
chamber music, sometimes by members of the Philadelphia
Orchestra. She is shown here during the College's Fiftieth
Anniversary celebration in 1935 with Dr Florence Sabin of the
Rockefeller Institute and Dr Simon Flexner, retired director of the
Institute. Dr Sabin received the M. Carey Thomas Award during
ceremonies in Goodhart Hall.

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B’ May Days became community events, with special trains bring-
ing alumnae and friends to Bryn Mawr. Every four years the

; productions required immense amounts of time from the entire College.
, Masses of paper flowers were needed to decorate the big Maypole

and bedeck the procession. Students made the flowers, seven a day
some Say, and they were stored in the gym.

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became part of the Science Center.

he 1930s and 1940s brought refugee scholars

to the campus from Europe, including the
eminent mathematician Emmy Noether,
philologist Eva Fiesel, philosopher Erich Franck,
and art historian Richard Bernheimer. Ernst
Berliner came from Germany, first to Harvard for
graduate study and then to Bryn Mawr’s chemistry
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hoads Hall, built 1937-1939, made possible an increase in the undergraduate enrollment. Rhoads
featured furniture by Bauhaus designer Marcel Breuer, who had moved from Germany to the United

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i hi atharine Elizabeth McBride, President of the College from 1942 to 1970,

Boca tent © was recognized for “her versatile and inclusive concern for the welfare
of the College from all angles.” Here she talks with Flexner Lecturer Arnold

’ Toynbee in 1947.

ne of Miss McBride's special interests was the education of children.

Under her direction the Child Study Institute was established, operated
by the Department of Education and Child Development. Her joy in children
is evident in this photograph taken at a New Haven book sale, part of the
Alumnae Association’s fund-raising for scholarships.



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ily Ross Taylor, Professor of Latin and Dean of the Graduate School
from 1942 to 1952, is shown here in a seminar. From 1944 to 1945
she was on leave of absence, one of several faculty members away from
the College on government service during World War Il.








homas Reading Room had 136 desks, “each screened to a height
of two feet, as in the British Museum Reading Room, to secure
privacy to the reader.”



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atharine McBride urged students to stay in classes, in laboratories,
K and in the library rather than leaving for war work: “When the war is
over, educated, disciplined, civilized women will be needed to help in the
reconstruction of the world—abroad and at home.”

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to a bonfire behind Rhoads (earlier it was on the hockey
field). They formed two circles around the fire. Sophomores
were on the inside, while the freshmen, trying to break
through, sang a song they had written. The To) 9) ate) a ate) cor
attempted to learn the song and parody it.












2 i Mawr's distinguished faculty is not only wise but witty. The first Faculty Show
was produced in 1922; others followed irregularly. The student handbook advises,
“Whenever one next occurs—don't miss it.” Here are scenes from Profs. in the Pudding,
1955; Top Secret, 1947;
The Night of the Lacuna,
1962; and Curriculi
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| Das Deanery faced the main campus. It had been enlarged and reno-
vated for Miss Thomas several times with Lockwood de Forest as
consultant, particularly for furniture and fittings. As the Alumnae House
from 1933 to 1968, it also offered a dining room for faculty and guests, and
guest bedrooms, with the Alumnae Association Offices on the second floor.
After careful, concerned consideration the Deanery was torn down in 1968
and a new library built on the site. Wyndham became the Alumnae House
with a new wing providing a dining room and offices for the Alumnae
Association.

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with students and faculty in the Dorothy Vernon Room of the Deanery.

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yndham was originally an eighteenth-century farmhouse on Merion

Avenue across from Pembroke Arch. In 1926 it was purchased by the
College from the Ely family to be used as a residence hall. It became
French House in the 1930s. The photograph shows Wyndham in the 1950s
before the new wing was added.

Co Ely 99 moved into the renovated Wyndham barn where she
offered the College community friendship and support of many kinds.
Here students enjoy wassail with her. The Ely House is now Bryn Mawr’s
Admissions Center. (The Career Planning Office, which expanded steadily
through the 1970s, moved from the basement of Taylor into the Admissions
Office quarters on the first floor.)
















rom the 1930s through the 1950s the maids and porters presented
musical comedies almost every spring. One of the last of these was
Oklahoma! presented in 1956.

From the beginning, the maids and porters helped make living gra-
cious. In 1971 linen tablecloths and meals served in each hall vanished
as dining was consolidated into five halls and maid service was reduced
as part of the College’s program of economies.

The Maids Bureau in Taylor offered skillful tailoring and produced
custom-made curtains and window-seat covers for students.




he Mrs Otis Skinner Theatre Workshop on the Baldwin

campus provided a small stage and a studio for painting for
many years. Arnecliffe, at the end of Merion Avenue, later
became the College’s center for fine art, and the Goodhart stage
was remodeled for undergraduate theater and dance
productions.













he combined choruses of Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarth-
more sang at the Academy of Music in 1957 with the Phila-
delphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting.

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hree-college cooperation began during President Marion Park’s
administration in the 1930s, when library facilities, laboratories, and
professors were first shared. Cross-registration in undergraduate courses
began in 1964, made feasible by regular bus service.
“The Blue Bus,” christened in the late 1960s, and “The Other Blue
Bus” shuttle between Bryn Mawr and Haverford. A tri-college van makes
runs to Swarthmore.



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Sea Hour in Thomas, described by the student guide as “the calm oasis of
each weekday morning,” began in the early 1970s when the Reading Room was
remodeled into the Great Hall. Lectures and concerts also take place there.

| eneeny auctions are movable attractions, but this one took place in the Great Hall
with Mary Patterson McPherson, then Dean of the College, as auctioneer.









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rdman Hall (left), opened in 1965, was named in honor of Eleanor

Donnelley Erdman ’21. Louis Kahn was the architect. By 1974 lf,
Erdman, Rhoads, and Radnor were coeducational dormitories ;
for the Bryn Mawr—Haverford residence exchange. There was ‘
a Russian corridor in Erdman in 1978. Batten House,
across Roberts Road on the northwest edge of campus,
is now Russian House. Meals are served cafeteria-
style in Erdman, Rhoads, Haffner, and Brecon.

The former graduate residence on Roberts

Road (below) was refurbished and trans-
formed into Brecon, an undergraduate
residence, reviving the tradition of
naming dormitories for Welsh
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sr early 1970 Perry House has been the Black Cultural Center for
the Sisterhood, a voluntary support group for black women at Bryn
Mawr. A small group of students may choose to live at Perry.




he Clarissa Donnelley Haffner Hall was opened in 1970 as Bryn
Mawr's “European Village” with French, German, Italian, and Spanish
wings.

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Merion Hall, was acquired by the College in 1958 to
house the growing Graduate Department of Social
Work and Social Research. Vaux House is now English
House with the Russian Center in the remodeled garage.
Social Work and Social Research is now located at
300 Airdale Road, just off campus to the northwest. In
1970 the department became a school under a new
academic plan of government which divided the
College into three schools: the Undergraduate College,
the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the
Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research.
Glenmede (below), the former Pew estate near the
College on Morris Avenue, was renovated in 1980 to
serve as a residential center for graduate students.


















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he Mariam Coffin Canaday Library opened in 1970. Its rich and diverse

library resources range from the incunabula in the Class of 1912 Rare
Book Room to the more-than-ten Apple computers available on stack
level B.

Mrs Canaday '06 shared a love of archaeology and the classics. In front
of the library named for her, three generations of Bryn Mawr faculty, photo-
graphed in 1977, represent the College’s continuing academic excellence in
these fields: Rhys Carpenter, first professor of classical archaeology at the
College; Mabel Lang, Paul Shorey Professor of Greek; and Richard Hamilton,
Associate Professor of Greek.

Walter Holt

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1978, came to Bryn Mawr during a decade of concern
over individual rights and the Vietnam War. Civil Rights and
international connections were concerns of his administra-
tion, as well as long-range academic and financial plan-
ning. He also found time to make clear that Bryn Mawr is
“a very good place to learn first-hand the strength of
women.” Here he listens to Katharine Hepburn '28 on
campus in 1973.

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the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in
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N“ interest in the history of Bryn Mawr has encouraged a look at the

past. One much-photographed academic adventure is the geology

field trip: in the early years, when Florence Bascom was teaching geology
at the College; in the 1940s; and in recent years.

Marie Leyendecker Cashel '44 Album



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he Bern Schwartz Gymnasium, opened in 1983, was constructed

on the old hockey field near the power house. It has an eight-lane
swimming pool, basketball courts, locker and shower space, training
and weight room, and a gymnastics area which fencers and dancers
also use. Photographer Bern Schwartz, husband of Rosalyn Ravitch
Schwartz '44, made portraits of some of Bryn Mawr’s professors
emeriti and also photographed Constance Applebee when she was
over 100 years old (below).











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really have superior views and would be
much more help to the nation than men. But
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interested her in having physical education
on a health basis: because it was important
to have women strong enough to cope in a
man’s world.”

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Campus Center with space for the college bookstore, the mailroom, snack bar, and student
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@ Sacer gained renewed popularity in the late 1970s and are now organized by
a student traditions-mistress. Lantern Night in October, however, remains much
the same; this photograph could be 1935 or 1955—or 1985. :

Step Singing (right) still takes place on Taylor Steps but also, after Parade Night,
on the steps of the old Deanery Garden, now the Taft Garden, behind Canaday
Library. The garden was originally planned by the landscape architéct Frederick Law
Olmsted, who made the first comprehensive plan of the campus: ”



Grand May Days, the first such cele-
brations since 1936, were held in 1978
and 1982, reviving many earlier tra-
ditions. President Mary Patterson
McPherson rides sidesaddle to Merion
Green, the first Bryn Mawr president to
lead the procession on horseback.

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Peter Dechert

66 Taking a fleeting look at the past is a very ancient Greek thing to
do, since from their eminently logical point of view one starts in
the present facing the past, which is known and laid out for all to
see; the future unknown and unseen, lies at one’s back and will
come after or behind. We apparently abhor the thought of standing
still and must always be on the move, so that, since one cannot
march forward into the past, we have turned around and face the
future with only an occasional glance back into the past. 99

Mabel Lang, Acting Dean, February 4, 1961


INDEX

Admissions 33

Alumnae Association 32
Applebee, Constance 11, 44, 45, 48
Athletics 10, 11, 44, 45
Bascom, Florence 43

Batten House 38

Blue Bus 36

Brecon Hall 38

Breuer, Marcel 27

Canaday Library 41

Canaday, Mariam Coffin 41
Caps and gowns tradition 6
Carpenter, Rhys 41

Cartref 6

Centennial Campus Center 45
Child Study Institute 28
Chorus 35

Class plays 17

Cloisters 12, 14
Coeducational dormitories 38
Coffee Hour 37

College News 11
Commencement 22, 47
Cooperation with Haverford and Swarthmore 36
Cope and Stewardson 6, 12
Dalton Hall 6, 7

Deanery 6, 32

de Forest, Lockwood 32
Denbigh Hall 8, 9

Doolittle, Hilda 16

Elisabeth, Queen of the Belgians 20
Ely, Gertrude 33

Ely House 33

Erdman Hall 38

Faculty Show 31

Fiftieth Anniversary 22, 23
Fine and performing arts 35
Flexner Lectures 23

Flexner, Simon 23

Foreign students 9

Frost, Robert 32

Geology field trip 43

48

Glenmede 40

Goodhart Hall 23

Graduate studies 4, 18, 40
Gymnasium (1909) 22, 45
Haffner Hall 39

Haverford College 8, 36
Hepburn, Katharine 21, 42
Hooprolling 14

Hutton, Addison 3

Kahn, Louis 38

Kingsbury, Susan 18

Lang, Mabel 47

Lantern Man 13

Lantern Night 14, 46

Maids and porters 34
Manning, Helen Taft 16
May Day 15, 24, 25, 46
McBride Gateway 12
McBride, Katharine E. 28, 29
McPherson, Mary Patterson 37, 46
Merion Hall 19

Moore, Marianne 14, 16
Olmsted, Frederick Law 46
Orals 14

Parade Night 30

Park Hall 26

Park, Marion E. 6, 22, 23
Pembroke Hall 12

Perry House 39

Phebe Anna Thorne Model School 18
Radnor Hall 6

Refugee scholars 26
Rhoads Hall 27

Rhoads, James E. 3, 6
Rockefeller Hall 13, 19
Rockefeller, John D. 8
Sabin, Florence 23
Schwartz, Bern 44
Schwartz Gymnasium 44
Science Center 26
Self-Government Association 17
Shaw Lectures 23




Skinner, Cornelia Otis 20
Smith, Hilda 16, 42

Social Work and Social Research 18, 40

Step Singing 46

Summer School for Women Workers in Industry 18, 42

Swarthmore College 36
Taft, William Howard 16
Taylor Hall 3, 4,5

Taylor, Joseph Wright 3

Taylor, Lily Ross 29

Thomas Library 12, 29, 37

Thomas, M. Carey 5, 7, 12, 14, 16, 18, 32
Toynbee, Arnold 28

Tsuda, Ume 9

Vaux, George 3

Vaux House 40

Ward Building 8

Weil, Mathilde 5

Wofford, Harris 42

Wyndham 32, 33

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