New-York tribune., 1902-02-15
PLANS FOR BRYN MAWR.
rp1rNns oF THE COLLEGE TO WORK WITH
A WILL To SECURE MR.. ROOKIE
FELLERS GIFT.

Discussion of plans help Bryn MaWr college
raise the $4,000 necessary to secure MI hoekeIe
lers conditional gift of $4,000 formed the lHpoI-
tant business of the annual meeting OF the alum
,ea association last week This is matter in
which all the friends of the college are deeply IN
terested and the alumna raised $3a664 last year
although their number is comparatively small nS
the college was founded only in 1855
In the seventeen years Of its academic hie the
college has grown so that its work Is seriously
hampered by lack OF buildings and funds. MI
Rockefeller offered 10 give $3oO0o If other frlenas OF
the institution would raise an additional $29o""
and of that sum only S93664 has been secured So"S
having been given through the president OF the
college Miss NJ. Carey Thomas.
The resident undergraduate students have pledged
$4,000 and the NewYork alumne are Worklhg
actively TO procure subscriptions. A committee OF
the trustees has been formed to assist in gathering
the money. and consists of Miss NJ. Carey Thomas
president of the college, Philip {. Garrett, NO "oS
Walnut-st., Philadelphia: Charles HartshoTne'
Merton, Penn; David Scull. No lib South Fourth
St. Philadelphia; Justus c. strawbridge, Eighth
and Market SITS. Philadelphia; Thomas Scattergood,
No. 64s The Bourse. Philadelphia; James Wood.
Mount Kisco, New-York. and Alexander c. Wood
Cooper-st. Camden y. J.
Mr.. Rockefeller's gift is to build, first, new
dormitory, at a cost of $4,000 This means
building OF stone with the best sanitary arrange
ments accommodating sixty students Then the
other 100000 offered by Mr.. Rockefeller is TO be
used for a light and heat plant Considerations of
economy convenience and safety, says Miss
Thomas make this urgent necessity.
The $3.50 900 TO be collected is to be spent on a
library building and additional lecture hall
The library is quartered in parts of the one
lecture hall Of the arts department 1t is incon
venienty housed and so crowded that acmlnls-
tration is difficult and the greatest usefulness i'm
possible. The freproof building as planned Is
10 built around three sides OF court the fourth
OF which will be closed in by the new lecture
building. go 80, .
Opposite this will be the main library, with its
large reading room and the mass of books. The
connecting wings will contain seminary rooms ana
professors rooms. The court, one hundred and
ten feet square. will be surrounded with an open
coister The library contains a little less than
4COG0 volumes The building will have ca
pacitv of l66 600 This that the needs OF the
college will be provided for for twenty Years The
much needed students building, to cost $4,000 Is in
cuded this appeal as is also an additional endow-
ment of 100000 in order that new dormitory may
be added soon.
Al the meeting Of the alumnae association officers
were elected the ensuing year as follows:
Members of the academic committee, Mary .
Breed "a Ph. D. 'Ol, dean OF women of the Uni
Versity of Indiana: president. Elizabeth B. Kirk
bride. &c: vice-president, Martha g. Thomas, 80;
recording secretary, Elizabeth Nields 98: corre-
spending secretary, Edith c. Crane, 90; treasurer,
Jane B. Haines 81
The bylaws of the association were amended so
that former students of the college who have not
received a degree may be admitted TO associate
membership in the association