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Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of historically women's colleges in the United States. The college has an enrollment of about 1,350 undergraduate students and 450 graduate students. It was the first women's college to offer graduate education through a PhD.
History and Legacies Overview. Established in 1885, Bryn Mawr was founded to offer a more rigorous education than any then available to women. Like many projects of late 19th-century Progressive thinkers, this bold vision embodied emancipatory potential and deep contradictions.
Bryn Mawr College was founded in 1880 with an endowment from a Quaker businessman and physician, Dr. Joseph Wright Taylor. Taylor had seen the frustrations of a friend's daughter who was unable to pursue graduate study.
Joseph Wright Taylor (1810 – 1880) is best known for being the financial catalyst for the founding of Bryn Mawr College.
Bryn Mawr College (1885) was founded upon an endowment from Dr. Joseph Wright Taylor, a Quaker businessman and physician. Dr. Taylor had observed the frustration of a daughter of a Baltimore friend who was unable to study at the graduate level.
In 1969 Bryn Mawr and Haverford College (then all-male) developed a system of sharing residential colleges. When Haverford became coeducational in 1980, Bryn Mawr discussed the possibility of coeducation as well but decided against it.
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Joseph Taylor, a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers), founded the college in 1885. Though Quaker beliefs helped to form the college, it has operated as a nondenominational college.
