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Academic buildings and halls of residence, plans and descriptions, Book

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Academic buildings and halls of residence, plans and descriptions

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GYMNASIUM.

The gymnasium, which is open to the students at all times, contains a large hall for gymnastic exercises, a running or walking track for use in rainy weather, and a room for the director, with an adjoining room for the examination and record of the physical development of the students. In the basement are bathrooms for use after exercise and a swimming-tank, seventy-four feet long, twenty feet wide, and from four to seven and a half feet deep, given in 1891 by the alumna students, and friends of the college, and well supplied with spring boards, life preservers, and other apparatus for the teaching of swimming. The gymnasium was built in accordance with the plans of Dr. Sargent, is furnished with his complete apparatus, and is under the charge of a director and two assistants.

THE LIBRARY.

A library, the gift of the friends, graduates, and students of the college, begun in April, 1903, was completed in February, 1907. It is built of gray stone in the Jacobean Gothic style of architecture of the period of 1630, and forms three sides of a closed quadrangle. The main building, devoted to the library proper, faces east and is opposite and parallel to Taylor Hall at a distance of about fifty yards; the principal entrances of the two buildings face each other and are connected by a broad cement path. The east front is one hundred and seventy-four feet long and contains a three-story stack with accommodation for eighty-eight thousand volumes, and above this a large reading-room with desks for one hundred and thirty-six readers, each screened to a height of two feet, as in the British Museum reading-room, to secure privacy to the reader. No books of reference are kept in the main reading-room. Beyond the reading-room on the south side is the newspaper and magazine room, and reached through this a study room. On the north side is the Art Seminary, containing collections of photographs, vases, and coins. The main building contains offices for the librarians and cataloguers, a study room for the non-resident students, and four cloakrooms. The wings of the building, running symmetrically about two hundred feet in length from the north and south ends of the main building, contain twelve seminary rooms and twenty-five professors’ offices. There is accommodation in each seminary room for ten or twelve graduate students, and graduate lectures are held in the seminary rooms, where the books needed principally for graduate and research work are kept. The total book capacity of the library, including the books for general study which are kept in the stack, is 168,449 volumes. The building is absolutely fire-proof. The seminaries are arranged as follows: Greek, Latin, English, German, French, Italian and Spanish, and Philosophy in the north wing; Mathematics, History, Economics, Psychology, and Semitic Languages in the south wing. Professors’ offices for the senior professors in each department adjoin the seminary rooms. There are also two seminary lecture-rooms accommodating about fifteen students, one general lecture-room accommodating forty-two students, four interview rooms, and a library for the use of the Christian Union of the students.

On the first floor of the south wing the department of experimental psychology has two large laboratories, one for general work and one for research. The basement of the north wing contains rooms for the Monograph Committee of the Faculty, the Alumna? Association, the Students’ Association for Self-Government, and fire-proof safe rooms for the records and archives of the college. The quadrangular court enclosed by the building is surrounded by cloisters and in the centre of the grass enclosure is a fountain, the gift of the class of 1901.

DALTON HALL.
In January, 1893, the scientific departments of the college were transferred to Dalton Hall, a stone building erected by the trustees out of funds in large part contributed by the generosity of friends of the college. Dalton Hall is entirely occupied by the scientific departments, the special scientific libraries, and the consultation-rooms of the professors of science. The first floor and the basement are reserved for physics, the second floor is reserved for biology, the third floor for chemistry, and the fourth and fifth floors for geology and biology. In December, 1893, a greenhouse designed for the use of the botanical department was added to Dalton Hall as the gift of the alumna? and students.

GYMNASIUM.
The gymnasium, which is open to the students at all times, contains a large hall for gymnastic exercises, a running or walking track for use in rainy weather, and a room for the director, with an adjoining room for the examination and record of the physical development of the students. In the basement are bathrooms for use after exercise and a swimming-tank, seventy-four feet long, twenty feet wide, and from four to seven and a half feet deep, given in 1891 by the alumna students, and friends of the college, and well supplied with spring boards, life preservers, and other apparatus for the teaching of swimming. The gymnasium was built in accordance with the plans of Dr. Sargent, is furnished with his complete apparatus, and is under the charge of a director and two assistants.

HALLS OF RESIDENCE.
Merion Hall, Radnor Hall, Denbigh Hall, Pembroke Hall Bast, Pembroke Hall West, Rockefeller Hall.

The six halls of residence provide accommodation for 393 students and each is under the charge of a resident warden who is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College. In every respect the management of each hall is the same. The buildings are built of stone and contain single rooms, suites of three rooms to be occupied by two students, and suites of two rooms to be occupied by one student. Every student has a separate bedroom.

Students are expected to provide their own rugs and towels, but in every other respect the rooms are completely furnished; there is provided for each student, in addition to the usual bedroom furniture, a bookcase, a study-table, an arm-chair, and an electric reading lamp. In Eockefeller Hall there are stationary washstands with hot and cold water in every bedroom. There are open fire-places in most of the studies and in many single rooms, but the rooms are sufficiently heated by currents of air passing over steam-heated pipes; the air is changed every ten minutes and the temperature is regulated by a thermostat in each room. Electric light is introduced into every room.

The charge for board for all students is $200 a year. The charge for rooms is $75 a year for graduate students and $100 a year and upwards for undergraduate students.

These charges for board and residence do not include the fee for tuition, which is $200 a year for undergraduate and $125 a year for graduate students. (See Program, pages 65 to 70.)

The entire cost of tuition, board, and residence in any hall, is therefore $500 a year and upwards for undergraduate students, according to the room occupied, and $400 a year for graduate students. This payment includes all expenses of furnishing, service, light, and heating, except open fires. No part whatever need be taken by the students in the care of their own rooms. The students’ personal washing may be done by any laundry employed by the college, for fifty cents a dozen or about $8.00 a half-year for one dozen pieces weekly. Accommodation is provided for students that wish to remain in residence during the Christmas and Easter vacations at a rate proportional to that paid by them for board and residence during the college year.

The room-rent and the fee for tuition must be paid in advance at the beginning of each academic year. Half the charge for board must be paid in advance at the beginning of each semester. The charges for tuition and room-rent are not subject to return or deduction under any circumstances; in case of prolonged illness and absence from the college extending over six weeks or more, there is a proportionate reduction in the charge for board.

The health of the students is under the care of Dr. Thomas P. Branson, of Rosemont, Attending Physician of the College, and Dr. Ella B. Everitt, a physician practising in Philadelphia, who visits the college twice every week, and may then be consulted by the students free of charge. In case of infectious diseases and all minor illnesses, a student is not nursed in her own room, but is removed to the infirmary, and cared for by a trained nurse; for all students in residence there is a fixed charge of $5.00 a year, payable in advance, for the support of the college infirmary and the payment of trained nurses.

As the demand for rooms is very great, application should be made as long as possible in advance.

*In about one-sixth of the college rooms the rent is $100, making the cost of board, residence and tuition for undergraduate students $500; but students desiring to apply for rooms at $100 must file a statement at the president’s office that they are unable to afford rooms at a higher price.

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Bryn Mawr. 1925. Academic buildings and halls of residence, plans and descriptions. Pennsylvania: Bryn Mawr. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012103700

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Bryn Mawr College. 1925. "Academic buildings and halls of residence, plans and descriptions, Book." History of Higher Education. https://higheredhistory.gmu.edu/primary-sources/academic-buildings-and-halls-of-residence-plans-and-descriptions-book/