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51-594: In 2023–2024, Bryn Mawr School had 147 faculty members and 712 students. Boys are admitted into the pre-school division, known as the Little School. Students from Bryn Mawr's brother school are allowed to take classes in the Upper School. Each student in the Middle and Upper School is assigned an Advisor in their division who serves as their representative to the school. Advisory groups meet together throughout

102-416: A 5% interest rate to the school until all the needed money was received by the school. Garrett set forth six extremely stringent conditions for acceptance of her gift: Garrett set the admission standards according to the highly praised European standards of medical education. Gilman was very concerned about the more rigorous academic standards. In the late nineteenth century, most of the medical schools in

153-558: A boy!" purportedly because he felt that Mary's potential was being suppressed by social barriers against women at the time. Mary Garrett was raised in a wealthy household. After her father was elected president of B&O Railroad, the Garrets moved into a mansion in Mount Vernon Place. Although living in a luxurious house in the most prosperous part of Baltimore, Garrett had a lonely and unhappy childhood. Her youngest brother

204-490: A brother and sister school. Bryn Mawr's brother school is Gilman, located across the street. Bryn Mawr's sister school (as well as rival school) is the Roland Park Country School (RPCS). The three schools coordinate Upper School classes so that students may attend a wider variety of classes and so that they may interact with their peers at other schools. Twice an academic year, once in the fall and once in

255-490: A convocation speech. On November 25, 1901, Bryn Mawr and St. Timothy's School began what is thought to be the longest continuous girls' high school basketball rivalry in the country, with a silver cup dedicated to the game passed between the schools. The game was played nine on nine on a court divided into three sections, with groups of three in each section. The uniforms were high-collared white blouses over long corduroy skirts, black stockings and white athletic shoes. The game

306-532: A gymnasium with a suspended track, and the Sargent School of Boston, as well as a full-time physician to oversee athletic and posture programs. Upstairs were scientific laboratories, an art room, and a library. The study hall bore a copy of the Parthenon Frieze and copies of European and American statuary and artwork throughout the building for the girls to study and draw. A model of the building

357-420: A new financial dilemma. He tried to convince Garrett to lower her standards but failed. Through negotiations, Garrett finally agreed to modify two paragraphs of her terms, emphasizing that her terms of gift "would not interfere with the operation of the university". She also added that the university could modify the admission requirement, but the standard should remain the same. On February 20, 1893, she approved

408-547: A private college-preparatory school for girls in Baltimore, and generously donated to Bryn Mawr College of Pennsylvania with the requirement that her intimate friend Martha Carey Thomas be the president. Like many other suffragists of the nineteenth century, Garrett chose not to marry; instead, she kept a lifelong working and emotional relationship with Thomas. In her later years, she collaborated with her longtime friends Susan B. Anthony and Anna Howard Shaw to try to secure

459-434: A very good relationship with Mary, believed "in cultivation, not in college." Also, the school restricted girls from studying science. In response to the restrictive school policy, the three girls formed their own study group to learn biological science, and dissected a rat to everyone's horror. Disappointed with the lackluster experiences of school education, Mary quit school at age seventeen and never returned to school in

510-508: A waste, since women would eventually stay at home and do household chores. For instance, "The Kitchen Magazine asked, 'Why does not Miss Garrett or some other philanthropist invest a quarter of a million dollars in a model school of domestic economy, in which we prepare girls for housekeeping and homemaking,' adding that 'without thoroughly trained, competent housekeepers it is a folly to hope for well-trained, pleasant homes.'" Garrett enriched Bryn Mawr College, donating $ 10,000 per year to help

561-687: A weekly allowance of five to ten dollars per week, she kept record of all expenses in her notebook. Besides, she kept all the letters from her relatives and friends, including Julia and Elizabeth. Garrett also kept a diary, which was given to her by the philanthropist and longtime friend of the Garret family, George Peabody , the respectable founder of the Peabody Institute and George Peabody Library in Baltimore . After leaving school, she continued to learn from her father about commerce and

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612-489: A wide range of offerings for competitive play including cross country, track, volleyball, basketball, softball, crew, squash, ice hockey, swimming, and dance. In 2010, the Bryn Mawr Ice Hockey team won their first championship, defeating Holton Arms . The varsity soccer team won three back-to-back IAAM championships in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Like many of the other private schools in Baltimore, Bryn Mawr has

663-525: A woman. However, her opportunity to establish justice came soon after. When the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine was under construction in the late nineteenth century, the school board quickly ran out of the original endowment from Johns Hopkins. Garrett and her friends founded the Women's Medical School Fund Committee and promised to make up for the deficit provided that women were accepted "on

714-630: Is a member of the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland (IAAM). Facilities include a fitness center, 90-foot regulation basketball court, athletic training room, and team locker rooms. The Grass Family Outdoor Athletic Complex includes six surface tennis courts, a turf field, a new softball field, and grass field. The school supports several sports programs including lacrosse, tennis, dance, softball, field hockey, indoor soccer, volleyball, horse riding, ice hockey, soccer, squash, and badminton. The school competes in

765-856: Is known for its annual intramural basketball game, a tradition that began in the 1890s when co-headmistresses Polly and Sally Carter divided the students into two teams named "Brownie" and "Spider". The game has been played each year according to the original three-court rules, with players wearing 19th-century tunics. St. Timothy's competes in the Interscholastic Equestrian Association (IEA) and attends several United States Equestrian Foundation (USEF) shows each semester. Equestrian facilities include: an indoor arena with 28 stalls and new premium footing, two tack rooms, and wash stalls; an outdoor riding ring with sand and fiber footing; and indoor ring; four private paddocks; and seven large fields - three with run-in sheds. St. Timothy's

816-504: The Civil War. She was also greatly influenced by other Maryland women, who offered significant assistance to Union soldiers during the Civil War by providing water, refreshments and nursing care. Garrett went to Miss Kummer's School when she was twelve. At school, she met two lifelong friends, Julia Rebecca Rogers, nicknamed "Dolly" and Elizabeth King, nicknamed "Bessie". Both Dolly and Bessie were from well-known families associated with

867-832: The Edith Hamilton Library, Hardy (1969) for science and math, the Cafeteria (1948), Katherine Van Bibber Gymnasium (1959), the Lower School complex designed by Marcel Breuer (1972), Centennial Hall (1987), the Barbara Landis Chase Dance Studio (1992), the Lower School Science building (1996), the Admissions Cottage (1997), and a variety of small outbuildings and additions. Coordination of classes with

918-482: The Garrett family in Baltimore. Dolly was the daughter of a steel magnate and became the legal ward of John W. Garrett after her father's death. Bessie, from a famous Quaker family, was the daughter of an associate of Mary's father. Mary was initially excited about school life and enjoyed it, but she gradually got bored because of her school's conservative stances toward girls' education. The school principal, who once had

969-487: The Interscholastic Athletic Association (IAAM). In 2023-2024, the school won the Division C Championship in lacrosse and softball. The school's 145-acre property includes athletic and equestrian facilities, an art barn, admissions cottage, various faculty houses, two dormitory houses, a student center, a working farm, and an academic building. Dixon Hall, the main academic building, was renovated in 2012. The changes include

1020-634: The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Famous women graduates include Florence Rena Sabin , Dorothy Reed Mendenhall , and Helen B. Taussig . The Bryn Mawr School for Girls was established by Garrett and her friends. Notable alumnae of Bryn Mawr School include Julia Randall , Mildred Natwick , and Léonie Gilmour . St. Timothy%27s School St. Timothy's School is a four-year private all-girls boarding high school in Stevenson, Maryland . The school

1071-549: The Johns Hopkins University board of trustees, had a strong incentive to fund a Hopkins initiative. They reached the goal of raising $ 100,000 after two years of work, but the balance, more than $ 300,000, seemed intimidating. Garrett, failing to secure additional funding and disappointed by the WMSF trustees, finally donated $ 306,977 by herself to the medical school. She paid annual installments of $ 50,000 and also

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1122-572: The School of Medicine owe its being." Garrett endowed the Johns Hopkins Medical School with a great sum of money. At first, the president of Johns Hopkins University, Daniel Coit Gilman requested $ 100,000 to open the medical school, but he increased this amount to $ 500,000 even before the Women's Medical School Fund committee (WMSF) started to raise the money. The trustees of the WMSF, many of whom were daughters of members of

1173-704: The United States from St Leonards School in Scotland (where it had arrived from Canada). In 1992 she was the first woman inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. The first game was held against Friends School of Baltimore . Since 1999, Bryn Mawr has shared Norris Field with the Mount Washington Lacrosse Club , one of the most successful amateur lacrosse teams in history. The athletics program today provides

1224-463: The United States were "small profit-making enterprises" owned by the faculties. The medical schools sold medical degrees to whoever paid the tuition fee. No preliminary education was required for admission. When Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania raised the academic standards earlier, they faced a revenue drop as fewer students were qualified for admission. The precarious financial situation of Hopkins worried Gilman; he could not afford

1275-497: The Upper School and have the option of following a double language track. Offerings in other foreign languages including Chinese, Arabic, Russian, and Greek begin in the ninth grade and are usually coordinated with Gilman and Roland Park. Graduation Requirements: Arts and fine arts (art, music, dance, drama), introduction to computer science, English, a foreign language, history, mathematics, physical education (includes health), public speaking, science, 50 hours of community service, and

1326-491: The adjacent boys' school at Gilman School and girls' school at Roland Park Country School at the Upper School level offers Bryn Mawr students a variety of electives and the opportunity for coeducational classes. These coordinated classes are concentrated in the junior and senior years. Many students take two years of Latin and three years of either French or Spanish in Middle School. They often continue one or both in

1377-567: The college and pay all the bills of the school on the condition that M. Carey Thomas be the president. She redesigned the Deanery , home of the school president and employed Frederick Law Olmsted , the designer of New York's Central Park and the campus of Stanford University, to help with the campus plan. Alan Chesney, dean emeritus of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , describes Garrett's role by writing: "For to this lady, more than any other single person, save only Johns Hopkins himself, does

1428-640: The country. Over the years buildings have been added as needed. The same stone that had been used to build the Gatehouse in the 19th century was found at the Butler quarry in Baltimore County and was used in the construction of Garrett (1931), Hamilton (1953), and the North Building (2007). Other structures built of complementary materials include Howell (1969) which houses the Upper School and

1479-408: The famous women's college, Bryn Mawr College of Pennsylvania. Garrett was the major financial supporter of the new school. Later on, Garrett shifted her focus to medical education. At the age of 22, she requested special permission from Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president of the Johns Hopkins University, to enroll in Johns Hopkins University, but was denied entrance due in part to her status as

1530-557: The financial chair of the National College Equal Suffrage League from 1908 to 1914. Garrett continued to donate heavily to the suffrage movement, giving $ 10,000~$ 20,000 annually, and actively participated in Women's Suffrage events, such as the 1912 Baltimore suffrage parade. Women in the United States were lawfully given the right to vote five years after Garrett's death. Garrett died at Bryn Mawr College of leukemia on April 3, 1915, at age 61. She

1581-506: The first Headmistress. Edith guided the school from 1896 to 1922. As the city became more congested and families moved out to the country, there was an urgent need to move the school. The 26-acre (110,000 m) property known as The Orchards was purchased in 1928 from the Gordon family north of the city line, and the school spent several years acquiring the funds to gradually move out of its home downtown and into renovated and new buildings in

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1632-694: The following years. She preferred to teach herself at home and read literary classics. With only self-education, she learned to speak fluent Italian and French and practiced German and Greek. Adolescence was not a period of comfort and happiness for Garrett. She felt uncomfortable with the Victorian expectations of women at the time and was also uncomfortable with the attitude towards sex in her family. Every family member avoided sex-related topics on purpose, and she had to teach herself about puberty. Garrett showed interests in business and managed her personal business matters by herself during this time period. Given

1683-470: The newspapers. The game was moved inside in 1928 as interest in field hockey as an outdoor fall sport grew. In December 2011, the two schools played a game in the old-fashioned clothes and rules to commemorate the first game played between the two schools. In 1926 Rosabelle Sinclair established the first American women's lacrosse team at The Bryn Mawr School, bringing the Native American game to

1734-524: The operation of a railroad company, later serving as his secretary. Garrett and her friends, including M. Carey Thomas , Mamie Gwinn, Elizabeth "Bessie" King, and Julia Rogers, were known as the "Friday Evening" because of their bi-weekly meetings on Friday nights. Through collective effort, the members of "The Friday Evening" started the Bryn Mawr School for Girls in Baltimore, 1885. It was an elite preparatory institution for girls, named after

1785-404: The right for women to vote in the United States. Mary Elizabeth Garrett was born in Baltimore, Maryland on March 5, 1854. Both of her parents, John W. Garrett and Rachel Ann Harrison, came from prominent and wealthy Baltimore families. Mary was the only daughter and youngest child of John W. Garrett. She was the favored child of the family, and her father often said, "I wish Mary had been born

1836-502: The same campus home, "the Deanery " at Bryn Mawr. Prior to inheriting a fortune of about $ 2 million following her father's death, Garrett worked as a personal secretary for her father, John W. Garrett. She thus had opportunities to meet with many business magnates in America, including Andrew Carnegie , J. P. Morgan , William Henry Vanderbilt , and Jay Gould . This experience exposed Mary to professional finance and endowed her with

1887-528: The same terms as men." The condition was accepted by the school board, and since then, medical education had become more and more accessible to females. Garrett was also hugely involved in Women's suffrage movement, working with her friends Anna Howard Shaw, Julia Ward Howe , and Susan B. Anthony and serving as a major benefactor of the movement. Garrett spent her final years at the Bryn Mawr College with M. Carey Thomas . Thomas and Garrett shared

1938-403: The school, and she supervised much of the construction processes. Although she was greatly hailed for her work, her donations were also controversial at the time and sometimes criticized for breaking social norms. Women at the time were expected and restricted to be good housekeepers, mothers, and wives. Thus, the great amount of money invested to raise the standard of women's education seemed like

1989-417: The skills to be an effective negotiator and businesswoman. Using her inherited wealth, Garrett helped found the Bryn Mawr School for Girls in Baltimore, so named to reference the already-popular Bryn Mawr College of Pennsylvania, which focused on scholastic achievement in traditionally male-dominated disciplines, such as mathematics and science. She spent over $ 500,000 on the construction and decoration of

2040-400: The spring, RPCS and Bryn Mawr hold Spirit Weeks, during which the two schools play games against each other in sports such as field hockey and lacrosse. During the school days of these weeks, students wear costumes in addition to the uniform skirt. Mary Elizabeth Garrett Mary Elizabeth Garrett (March 5, 1854 – April 3, 1915) was an American suffragist and philanthropist . She was

2091-770: The statement and terms and signed the Requirements of Admission. By forcing the university to accept females on the same basis as males and increasing the admission requirements, Garrett made Johns Hopkins School of Medicine the first co-educational, graduate-level medical school in the United States. Garrett was heavily involved in the Women's Suffrage Movement in her adulthood. She hosted the National American Woman Suffrage Association's 1906 convention in her Mount Vernon home. Attendees included Baltimore college women and notable suffragists, like Susan B. Anthony. She also served as

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2142-452: The supervision of university professors and had to pass the entrance exam for Bryn Mawr College in order to graduate. Mary Elizabeth Garrett, who became the wealthiest “spinster woman” in the country after the death of her father John Work Garrett , was the main benefactor. She was often onsite during the construction of the school building in downtown Baltimore from 1888 to 1890, which featured an indoor swimming pool with cold “needle baths,”

2193-482: The week for discussions and celebrations, and work together on a variety of charitable and service projects. The Bryn Mawr School for Girls of Baltimore City was founded in 1885 by five Baltimore women, M. Carey Thomas , Mary Elizabeth Garrett , Mamie Gwinn , Bessie King, and Julia Rogers, collectively known as the "Friday Evening" Group. The group's aim was to provide an education for girls equivalent to that available to boys. In an 1883 letter to James E. Rhoads , who

2244-700: The world-renowned International Baccalaureate (IB) program, recognized internationally for academic excellence. The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and founded in 1968. St. Timothy's offers the IB Diploma Programme and the IB Middle Years Programme. To teach these programs schools must be authorized by the International Baccalaureate. The school

2295-501: The youngest child and only daughter of John W. Garrett , a philanthropist and president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B. & O.). Well known for her "coercive philanthropy", Mary Garrett donated money to start the Johns Hopkins University Medical School in 1893 on the condition that the school would accept female students "on the same terms as men". She founded Bryn Mawr School ,

2346-506: Was 5 years older than her, and the age difference made it difficult for her to connect with her brothers. Moreover, according to her memoir, she had serious trouble with the bone of her right ankle until she received effective treatment at the spas of Cape May. Garrett learned about charitable works in her young age as both her parents and grandparents were involved in philanthropy. Furthermore, she eavesdropped on her father's conversations with famous politicians and businessmen at home, during

2397-467: Was buried in Baltimore's Green Mount Cemetery , next to her father. She left most of her funds and properties including the Mount Vernon mansion to M. Carey Thomas in her will. In October 1893, after accepting Garrett's terms and conditions of her gift, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine admitted three women students for the first time. By June 21, 2000, 1547 women had graduated from

2448-776: Was founded as a school for girls by Sarah Randolph Carter in Catonsville, Maryland in 1882. In 1952, the school moved to Stevenson, Maryland ; the new school was designed by Robert Hutchins, of the New York City-based firm of Moore & Hutchins. In 1972, Hannah More Academy merged into St. Timothy's School. The school is run under the guidance of the Episcopal Church, and offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program. Students pursue studies through

2499-637: Was made for the Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago and numerous articles about it appeared in newspapers across the country. The school was seen as a move forward for women's education reaching far beyond Baltimore and Pennsylvania. After a series of Secretaries who managed the daily running of the school, the Board of Managers brought Edith Hamilton from her doctoral studies in Europe to be

2550-467: Was played outdoors without a backboard, on a dirt field which would be covered with straw to absorb dampness if necessary. The headmistresses of both schools agreed to a list of rules and conditions, which included prohibiting male spectators (with the exception of William Marston, the Headmaster of Marston School who officiated the game) and guaranteed that none of the girls' names would be published in

2601-649: Was the first president of the Bryn Mawr College , M. Carey Thomas shared her concern for how they would find young women prepared for the unprecedented rigorous standards of the new college: "The absence of the regularly organized preparatory schools that exist for boys greatly embarrasses a girl who means to enter college." The school had a predominantly educated female faculty, and a curriculum that required Latin and French, German and Greek, laboratory sciences, history, literature, advanced mathematics, elocution and art. Students would undergo examinations with

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