BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, an educa tional institution for women, at Bryn Mawr, Pa.; founded in 1880 by Joseph Taylor. Bryn Mawr is distinctive among women's colleges in that its course and method of study are based upon the university model. The system of major and minor elections in fixed combina tion* has been adopted; students are grouped in accordance with the work they have actually accomplished instead of by arbitrary classes; original research is in all cases encouraged; and, in pursuance of the same policy, of placing the scholarship of the college upon a basis of pure merit, candidates for admission as under graduates are tint accepted upon certificate, and honorary degrees are not granted. The college offers to graduate degrees of A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. Fifteen resident fellowships, 24 gradu ate scholarships and 4 European fellowships are offered to graduate students, 10 graduate scholarships are offered to English, German and French women, and there are also 50 schol arships and a students' loan fund for under graduates. Bryn Mawr has grown rapidly
since its foundation, and in 1913 had 66 profes sors and instructors and a student body of 467. The library, largely designed for specialized study, contained in the same year over 68,000 bound volumes and 10,000 pamphlets, including the classical library of Professor Saiwe of Giittingen. The college buildings include six halls of residence, accommodating from 60 to 70 students each — Taylor Hall containing the lecture-rooms and office of administration. a large library building, with a book capacity of 187,000 volumes 14 seminar rooms, lecture rooms, laboratories, a model school, etc., a well equipped gymnasium, Dalton Hall, a lighting and heating plant, an infirmary, two apartment hotels for men and women professors and nine houses for professors. The endowment fund is $1,890,000, the value of the buildings and grounds $1,950,000, and the annual income about $302,700.