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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2000, Bryn Mawr had a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.6 km 2), all land, all in Lower Merion Township in Montgomery County. [16] However, the Bryn Mawr ZIP Code of 19010 covers a larger area. As a result, the geographic term Bryn Mawr is often used in a sense that includes not only the CDP, but also ...
A wetland in Middlebury Township. As of the census [4] of 2000, there were 1,221 people, 477 households, and 352 families residing in the township. The population density was 25.2 people per square mile (9.7/km 2).
Haverford's consortium relationship with Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, and the University of Pennsylvania (the Quaker Consortium) greatly expands its course offerings. Haverford and Bryn Mawr have a particularly close relationship (the Bi-College Consortium), with over 2,000 students cross-registering between the two schools. [ 30 ]
Bryn Mawr College (/ ˌ b r ɪ n ˈ m ɑː r / brin-MAR; Welsh: [ˌbɾɨ̞nˈmau̯ɾ]) [9] is a private women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States.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.
That year Bryn Mawr, Barnard, and Radcliffe were added and the group gained the name “Seven Sisters” after the Pleiades. [4] The Seven Sisters in name and standing were meant to mimic the then male “ Ivy League ”, although Cornell, one of the eight Ivy League school has been open to accepting women since its founding, and admitted ...
Bryn Mawr College, Harcum College, Rosemont College, and St. Charles Borromeo Seminary are located in Lower Merion Township. The campus of Saint Joseph's University straddles the city line between Lower Merion and Philadelphia, [ 38 ] while Haverford College straddles the lines between Lower Merion and Haverford Townships.
The New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) members: Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan and Williams. The colleges of the "Little Three": Amherst, Wesleyan, and Williams. This athletic league was founded as the "Triangular League" in 1899 in New England.
Among these were Gladwyne, formerly "Merion Square" (which was given its new name in 1891, although the name is meaningless in Welsh), Bryn Mawr, formerly "Humphreysville" (which was renamed in 1869), and Llanerch called so as early as 1867 meaning “Open Space” in Welsh.