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Bryn Mawr College

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Bryn Mawr College (Welsh) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. [1]

138 relations: Academic honor code, Agathe Lasch, Agnes E. Wells, Alice Rivlin, Andrea Portes, Annapolis Group, Anne Truitt, Arboretum, Archaeology, Arthur C. Cope, Arthur Ingersoll Meigs, Arthur Lindo Patterson, Atrium (architecture), Auditorium, Bachelor of Arts, Brecon, Bryn Mawr Campus Arboretum, Bryn Mawr College Deanery, Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Calvert Vaux, Caroline Robbins, Centennial Conference, Chicago Tribune, Cloister, Collegiate Gothic, Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges, Cope and Stewardson, County town, Cremation, Dar Williams, Denbigh, Diane Sawyer, Doctorate, Dolgellau, Drew Gilpin Faust, Edith Hamilton, Edmund Beecher Wilson, Ellen Kushner, Emily Dickinson, Emily Greene Balch, Emmy Noether, Foreign language, Frederick Law Olmsted, Frieze, Gable, Gothic Revival architecture, Grace Lee Boggs, Gwynedd, H.D., ..., Hadley Richardson, Hanna Holborn Gray, Harris Wofford, Harvard University, Haverford College, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Heteronormativity, Hillary Clinton, Humanities, Isabel Maddison, James Rhoads, Jane Dammen McAuliffe, John Charles Olmsted, John D. Rockefeller, José Ferrater Mora, Joseph W. Taylor, Karl Kirchwey, Katharine Elizabeth McBride, Katharine Hepburn, Kimberly Wright Cassidy, Latin, Leicester Bodine Holland, Lemnian Athena, Liberal arts colleges in the United States, Library, Lockwood de Forest, Louis Fieser, Louis Kahn, Louise Holland, Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, M. Carey Thomas, Madeleine Albright, Marianne Moore, Marion Edwards Park, Martha Gellhorn, Mary Patterson McPherson, Master's degree, Mellor, Meigs & Howe, Merionethshire, Middle East, Modernism, Mural Arts Program, Nancy J. Vickers, National Collegiate Athletic Association, National Historic Landmark, Natural science, NCAA Division III, Nettie Stevens, New Radnor, Niche (company), Oberlin Group, Parthenon, Patterson function, Pennsylvania, Postgraduate education, Private university, Quaker Consortium, Quakers, Richmond Lattimore, Rowland Ellis, Ruth Gentry, Samuel Yellin, SAT, Seven Sisters (colleges), Social science, Social work, Swarthmore College, Sweet Briar College, Syria, The New York Times, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Transgender, Travel + Leisure, Tri-College Consortium, Undergraduate education, United States, University of Cambridge, University of Chicago, University of Massachusetts Press, University of Pennsylvania, Urban planning, Villanova University, Wales, Welsh language, William Penn, Women's College Coalition, Women's colleges in the United States, Woodrow Wilson. Expand index (88 more) »

Academic honor code

An academic honor code or honor system is a set of rules or ethical principles governing an academic community based on ideals that define what constitutes honorable behaviour within that community.

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Agathe Lasch

Agathe Lasch (born 4 July 1879, in Berlin; died 18 August 1942, in Riga) was a German philologist.

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Agnes E. Wells

Agnes Ermina Wells, Ph.D. (January 4, 1876, Saginaw, Michigan – July 6, 1959) was an American educator and a women's equal rights movement activist.

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Alice Rivlin

Alice Mitchell Rivlin (born March 4, 1931) is an economist and former U.S. Federal Reserve and budget official.

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Andrea Portes

Andrea Portes is an American bestselling novelist.

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Annapolis Group

The Annapolis Group is an American organization of independent liberal arts colleges.

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Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt (March 16, 1921December 23, 2004), born Anne Dean, was a major American artist of the mid-20th century.

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Arboretum

An arboretum (plural: arboreta) in a general sense is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees.

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Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Arthur C. Cope

Arthur C. Cope (June 27, 1909 – June 4, 1966) was a highly successful and influential organic chemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Arthur Ingersoll Meigs

Arthur Ingersoll Meigs (1882–1956) was an American architect.

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Arthur Lindo Patterson

Arthur Lindo Patterson (23 July 1902, Nelson, New Zealand - 6 November 1966, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a pioneering British X-ray crystallographer.

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Atrium (architecture)

In architecture, an atrium (plural: atria or atriums) is a large open air or skylight covered space surrounded by a building.

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Auditorium

An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances at venues such as theatres.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.

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Brecon

Brecon (Aberhonddu), archaically known as Brecknock, is a market town and community in Powys, Wales, with a population in 2001 of 7,901, increasing to 8,250 at the 2011 census.

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Bryn Mawr Campus Arboretum

Bryn Mawr Campus Arboretum (135 acres) is an arboretum located across the campus of Bryn Mawr College, 101 North Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

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Bryn Mawr College Deanery

The Bryn Mawr College Deanery was the campus residence of the first Dean and second President of Bryn Mawr College, Martha Carey Thomas, who maintained a home there from 1885 to 1933.

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Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry

The Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry (1921–1938) was a residential summer school program that brought approximately 100 young working women—mostly factory workers with minimal education—to the Bryn Mawr College campus, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, each year for eight weeks of liberal arts study.

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Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Bryn Mawr (pronounced; from Welsh for "Big hill") is a census-designated place (CDP) located across Radnor and Haverford Townships in Delaware County, Pennsylvania and Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, just west of Philadelphia along Lancaster Avenue (US-30) and the border with Delaware County.

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Calvert Vaux

Calvert Vaux (December 20, 1824 – November 19, 1895) was a British-American architect and landscape designer.

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Caroline Robbins

Caroline Robbins or Caroline Herben (18 August 1903 – 8 February 1999) was a British historian who was a professor at Bryn Mawr College.

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Centennial Conference

The Centennial Conference is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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Cloister

A cloister (from Latin claustrum, "enclosure") is a covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth.

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Collegiate Gothic

Collegiate Gothic is an architectural style subgenre of Gothic Revival architecture, popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries for college and high school buildings in the United States and Canada, and to a certain extent Europe.

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Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges

The Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC) is a nonprofit organization of 70 American liberal arts colleges which formed in 1984 under the leadership of Oberlin College's president S. Frederick Starr.

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Cope and Stewardson

Cope and Stewardson (1885–1912) was a Philadelphia architecture firm founded by Walter Cope and John Stewardson, and best known for its Collegiate Gothic building and campus designs.

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County town

A county town in Great Britain or Ireland is usually, but not always, the location of administrative or judicial functions within the county.

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Cremation

Cremation is the combustion, vaporization, and oxidation of cadavers to basic chemical compounds, such as gases, ashes and mineral fragments retaining the appearance of dry bone.

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Dar Williams

Dar Williams (Dorothy Snowden Williams, born April 19, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter specializing in pop folk.

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Denbigh

Denbigh (Dinbych) is a market town and community in Denbighshire, Wales, of which it was formerly the county town.

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Diane Sawyer

Lila Diane Sawyer (born December 22, 1945) is an American television journalist.

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Doctorate

A doctorate (from Latin docere, "to teach") or doctor's degree (from Latin doctor, "teacher") or doctoral degree (from the ancient formalism licentia docendi) is an academic degree awarded by universities that is, in most countries, a research degree that qualifies the holder to teach at the university level in the degree's field, or to work in a specific profession.

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Dolgellau

Dolgellau (formerly Dolgell(e)y; see below) is a market town and Community in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, lying on the River Wnion, a tributary of the River Mawddach.

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Drew Gilpin Faust

Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) is an American historian and the 28th President of Harvard University, the first woman to serve in that role.

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Edith Hamilton

Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 – May 31, 1963) was an American educator and internationally-known author who was one of the most renowned classicists of her era.

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Edmund Beecher Wilson

Edmund Beecher Wilson (19 October 1856 – 3 March 1939) was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist.

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Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner (born October 6, 1955) is an American writer of fantasy novels.

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Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet.

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Emily Greene Balch

Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist.

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Emmy Noether

Amalie Emmy NoetherEmmy is the Rufname, the second of two official given names, intended for daily use.

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Foreign language

A foreign language is a language originally from another country.

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Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator.

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Frieze

In architecture the frieze is the wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs.

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Gable

A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England.

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Grace Lee Boggs

Grace Lee Boggs (June 27, 1915 – October 5, 2015) was an American author, social activist, philosopher and feminist.

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Gwynedd

Gwynedd is a county in Wales, sharing borders with Powys, Conwy, Anglesey over the Menai Strait, and Ceredigion over the River Dyfi.

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H.D.

Hilda "H.D." Doolittle (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961) was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist, associated with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagist group of poets, including Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington.

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Hadley Richardson

Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (November 9, 1891 – January 22, 1979) was the first wife of American author Ernest Hemingway.

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Hanna Holborn Gray

Hanna Holborn Gray (born October 25, 1930) is an American historian of Renaissance and Reformation political thought and Professor of History Emerita at the University of Chicago.

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Harris Wofford

Harris Llewellyn Wofford Jr. (born April 9, 1926) is an American attorney and Democratic Party politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1991 to 1995.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Haverford College

Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in Haverford, Pennsylvania.

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Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (born 1942) is the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of American Studies and History, emerita, at Smith College.

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Heteronormativity

Heteronormativity is the belief that people fall into distinct and complementary genders (male and female) with natural roles in life.

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.

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Humanities

Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture.

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Isabel Maddison

Ada Isabel Maddison (1869 – 1950) was a British mathematician best known for her work on differential equations.

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James Rhoads

James Evans Rhoads (1828–1895) was an American educator and administrator, first president of Bryn Mawr College.

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Jane Dammen McAuliffe

Jane Dammen McAuliffe (born 1944) is a prominent American educator, internationally known scholar of Islam and the inaugural Director of National and International Outreach at the Library of Congress.

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John Charles Olmsted

John Charles Olmsted (1852–1920), the nephew and adopted son of Frederick Law Olmsted, was an American landscape architect.

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John D. Rockefeller

John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American oil industry business magnate, industrialist, and philanthropist.

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José Ferrater Mora

José Ferrater Mora or Josep Ferrater i Mora (in Catalan) (30 October 1912 – 30 January 1991) was a Spanish philosopher.

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Joseph W. Taylor

Joseph Wright Taylor (1810-1880) is best known for being the financial catalyst for the founding of Bryn Mawr College.

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Karl Kirchwey

Karl Kirchwey (born February 25, 1956) is an award–winning American poet who has lived in both Europe and the United States and whose work is strongly influenced by the Greek and Roman past.

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Katharine Elizabeth McBride

Katharine Elizabeth McBride (1904 - 1976) was an American academic who served as the fourth president of Bryn Mawr College from 1942 until 1970.

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Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress.

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Kimberly Wright Cassidy

Kimberly Wright Cassidy (born c. 1963 in Pennsylvania) was named the ninth president of Bryn Mawr College on February 12, 2014 and was formally inaugurated on September 20, 2014.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Leicester Bodine Holland

Leicester Bodine Holland (23 May 1882 – 2 July 1952) was an American architect, art historian and archaeologist and holder of the Carnegie Chair at the Library of Congress.

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Lemnian Athena

The Lemnian Athena, or Athena Lemnia, was a classical Greek statue of the goddess Athena.

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Liberal arts colleges in the United States

Liberal arts colleges in the United States are certain undergraduate institutions of higher education in the United States.

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Library

A library is a collection of sources of information and similar resources, made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing.

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Lockwood de Forest

Lockwood de Forest (June 8, 1850 – April 3, 1932) was an American painter, interior designer and furniture designer.

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Louis Fieser

Louis Frederick Fieser (April 7, 1899 – July 25, 1977) was an American organic chemist, professor, and in 1968, professor emeritus at Harvard University.

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Louis Kahn

Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky) (– March 17, 1974) was an American architect, based in Philadelphia.

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Louise Holland

Louise Adams Holland (3 July 1893–21 June 1990) was a philologist, university teacher, academic and archaeologist.

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Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania

Lower Merion Township is a township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and part of the Philadelphia Main Line.

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M. Carey Thomas

Martha Carey Thomas (January 2, 1857 – December 2, 1935) was an American educator, suffragist, linguist.

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Madeleine Albright

Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born May 15, 1937) is an American politician and diplomat.

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Marianne Moore

Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American Modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor.

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Marion Edwards Park

Marion Edwards Park (1875-1960) was the American alumna and the third president of Bryn Mawr College, following alumna M. Carey Thomas.

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Martha Gellhorn

Martha Ellis Gellhorn (November 8, 1908 – February 15, 1998) was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century.

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Mary Patterson McPherson

Mary Patterson McPherson (born c. 1935) has served as the President of Bryn Mawr College (1978-1997), the Vice President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (1997–2007), and the Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society (2007-2012).

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Master's degree

A master's degree (from Latin magister) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

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Mellor, Meigs & Howe

Mellor, Meigs & Howe (1916–28) was a Philadelphia architectural firm best remembered for its Neo-Norman residential designs.

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Merionethshire

Merionethshire or Merioneth (Meirionnydd or Sir Feirionnydd) is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales, a vice county and a former administrative county.

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Middle East

The Middle Easttranslit-std; translit; Orta Şərq; Central Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی ناوین, Rojhelatî Nawîn; Moyen-Orient; translit; translit; translit; Rojhilata Navîn; translit; Bariga Dhexe; Orta Doğu; translit is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa).

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Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Mural Arts Program

The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program is an anti-graffiti mural program in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the United States.

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Nancy J. Vickers

Nancy J. Vickers is an American educator and college administrator.

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National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit organization which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions and conferences.

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National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance.

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Natural science

Natural science is a branch of science concerned with the description, prediction, and understanding of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation.

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NCAA Division III

Division III (D-III) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States.

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Nettie Stevens

Nettie Maria Stevens (July 7, 1861 – May 4, 1912) was an early American geneticist.

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New Radnor

New Radnor (Maesyfed) is a village in Powys, mid Wales.

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Niche (company)

Niche.com, Inc., formerly known as College Prowler, is an American company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that runs a ranking and review site.

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Oberlin Group

The Oberlin Group is an "informal consortium of the libraries of approximately 80 selective liberal arts colleges in the United States." The group developed as a result of conferences held in 1984-85 at Oberlin College when the presidents of 50 colleges met to discuss the role of science education.

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Parthenon

The Parthenon (Παρθενών; Παρθενώνας, Parthenónas) is a former temple, on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their patron.

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Patterson function

The Patterson function is used to solve the phase problem in X-ray crystallography.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Postgraduate education

Postgraduate education, or graduate education in North America, involves learning and studying for academic or professional degrees, academic or professional certificates, academic or professional diplomas, or other qualifications for which a first or bachelor's degree generally is required, and it is normally considered to be part of higher education.

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Private university

Private universities are typically not operated by governments, although many receive tax breaks, public student loans, and grants.

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Quaker Consortium

The Quaker Consortium is an arrangement among three liberal arts colleges, Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, Swarthmore College, and one research university, the University of Pennsylvania, in the greater Philadelphia area.

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Quakers

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.

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Richmond Lattimore

Richmond Alexander Lattimore (May 6, 1906 – February 26, 1984) was an American poet and classicist known for his translations of the Greek classics, especially his versions of the Iliad and Odyssey, which are generally considered as among the best English translations available.

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Rowland Ellis

Rowland Ellis (1650 – September 1731) was a Welsh Quaker leader.

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Ruth Gentry

Ruth Gentry (February 22, 1862 – October 18, 1917) was a pioneering American woman mathematician during the late 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.

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Samuel Yellin

Samuel Yellin (1884–1940), was an American master blacksmith, and metal designer.

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SAT

The SAT is a standardized test widely used for college admissions in the United States.

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Seven Sisters (colleges)

The Seven Sisters was a name given to seven liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges.

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Social science

Social science is a major category of academic disciplines, concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society.

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Social work

Social work is an academic discipline and profession that concerns itself with individuals, families, groups and communities in an effort to enhance social functioning and overall well-being.

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Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college located in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, southwest of Philadelphia.

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Sweet Briar College

Sweet Briar College is a women's liberal arts college in Sweet Briar, Virginia, United States, about north of Lynchburg.

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Syria

Syria (سوريا), officially known as the Syrian Arab Republic (الجمهورية العربية السورية), is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Thomas Hunt Morgan

Thomas Hunt Morgan (September 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945) was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity.

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Transgender

Transgender people have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex.

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Travel + Leisure

Travel + Leisure is a travel magazine based in New York City, New York.

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Tri-College Consortium

The Tri-College Consortium (also known as the Tri-Co) is a collaboration among three private liberal arts colleges in the Philadelphia suburbs: Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, and Swarthmore College.

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Undergraduate education

Undergraduate education is the post-secondary education previous to the postgraduate education.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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University of Massachusetts Press

The University of Massachusetts Press is a university press that is part of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.

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Urban planning

Urban planning is a technical and political process concerned with the development and design of land use in an urban environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks.

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Villanova University

Villanova University is a private research university located in Radnor Township, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in the United States.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Welsh language

Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a member of the Brittonic branch of the Celtic languages.

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William Penn

William Penn (14 October 1644 – 30 July 1718) was the son of Sir William Penn, and was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker, and founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania.

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Women's College Coalition

The Women's College Coalition (WCC) was founded in 1972 and describes itself as an "association of women’s colleges and universities that are two- and four-year, public and private, religiously affiliated and secular.".

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Women's colleges in the United States

Women's colleges in the United States are single-sex U.S. institutions of higher education that only admit female students.

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Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was an American statesman and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921.

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References

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