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Bryn Mawr
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Gettysburg
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Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr College was founded in 1885 to extend to women the
opportunity for rigorous academic
training, including the study of Greek,
mathematics, and philosophy, that was
then available only to men. Bryn Mawr
thus modeled its curriculum and its
standards on those of Oxford, Yale, and
Princeton. But in another sense it was
founded to be quite unlike those older
institutions. Being small, it could offer a
kind of attention to the needs and
concerns of its students that large
universities could not. Being new and
somewhat arrogant, it could challenge
educational convention whenever that
seemed important. Those traditions
continue, and Bryn Mawr remains today
a demanding and caring place where
both ideas and individuals matter very
much.
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