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Scope and Contents M. Carey Thomas was the first Dean and second President—a title she held for twenty-eight years—of Bryn Mawr College. Thomas’s professional and personal lives were both deeply connected to the College, and she is one of the chief architects of the college post-1894, when she began her tenure as President. Even after her retirement, Thomas continued to live on campus in the home she and her life partner Mary Garrett built, The Deanery. Although Thomas was a proponent of women’s education and...