{"id":574,"date":"2022-08-16T18:37:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T18:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wbbm.digitalprojects.brynmawr.edu\/dev\/?page_id=574"},"modified":"2022-09-16T17:28:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T21:28:11","slug":"supervision","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wbbm.digitalprojects.brynmawr.edu\/why-build\/exhibit\/health\/supervision\/","title":{"rendered":"Supervision or Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While belief in the need to closely supervise young women was typical at the time, the notion that they should engage in weight training and gymnastics was not. Students did not themselves determine what types of health-preserving exercise were appropriate for them. Instead, their bodies were closely regulated by the Gymnasium Directress and the Matron of Merion Hall, and indirectly by Addison Hutton, Calvert Vaux, and the other men and women who helped determine the layout and design of the campus and its buildings. Students were regularly monitored to ensure they took the amount and type of exercise that was deemed necessary. Statistics were collected to document their well-being while at Bryn Mawr. The founders emphasized that students should be active under the watchful eye of another woman, yet authorities on women\u2019s health were typically men. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cTaylor Hall and Merion Hall\u00a0should promote\u00a0the\u00a0health and\u00a0comfort of the\u00a0inmates.”\u00a0\u200b<\/p>\u200bBryn\u00a0Mawr\u00a0College Program<\/em>,\u00a01883<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Hutton was also involved with other Quaker social reform projects, including the construction of prisons and mental health facilities. While Hutton was planning Bryn Mawr, he was simultaneously designing Bucks County Jail in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. In this business diary from early 1880, Hutton drew a prison that he visited in Italy. On the next page he drew plans for Bryn Mawr. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Addison Hutton, \u201cPrison, Genoa, January 1, 1880,\u201d Diary, vol. 11, 1880. Haverford Quaker and Special Collections, Addison Hutton Papers, MC 1122.\u200b
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Did connections in the surveillance of prisoners, patients, and female students inform Hutton\u2019s designs at Bryn Mawr? How did Hutton imagine these different constituencies in comparison to each other?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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