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Graduates of the Annex are already becoming useful as educations themselves. Progress accounts for several as follows: "Miss Gregory is a professor in the natural history department of Bryn Mawr College; Miss Byrd is professor of mathematics at Carleton College, Minnersville, and had charge of the changes in the time service. She gained all her practical knowledge in the Harvard Observatory under Professor Pickering while she was a student at the Annex. Another graduate was for a time a professor in Washburn College, Topeka, Kan., and is now in charge of the history department at Bradford Academy, Massachusetts...
Several of the buildings of the new Bryn Mawr college for women, started by the Quakers near Philadelphia, are nearly completed, and college work will soon be begun...
...large number of students have already entered their application for admission to Bryn Mawr college. The buildings are nearly completed and it is thought the institution will be opened next year...
...James E. Rhoads, of Philadelphia, was last Saturday elected President of Bryn Mawr College by the trustees, and Martha Carey Thomas, of Baltimore, Dean of the faculty and Professor of English. The institution will be opened to students in the autumn of 1885, and will adopt standards of admission and instruction equal to the highest in existing colleges for women in this country. Dr. Rhoads was named in the will of Dr. Joseph W. Taylor, the founder of Bryn Mawr College, as one of its trustees, and still holds that position. Martha Carey Thomas holds the degree...
...Bryn Mawr College, the legacy of Dr. J. Taylor of Burlington, N. J. will be opened to students in the autumn of 1885. It will offer to women good college education...