Cardinal O ' Hara High School, serving grades 9 through 12, is a coeducational school located in Springfield, and serves the Ridley Park, Chester, Swarthmore, and Springfield area.

* Swarthmore College, a private, formerly Quaker, four year school is located in nearby Swarthmore.

“ Located ten miles from Philadelphia, on the line of the Central Division of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, three minutes walk from Morton Station – it is reached in from 20 to 30 minutes by 21 trains daily … To the west lies the magnificent Swarthmore College, and to the southeast, three miles away, lies the Delaware River … its school is one of the finest in the county ; its houses are neat and attractive, and their owners take great pride in their homes and the adornment of their grounds .”

( A small exclave of Springfield Township is located south of Swarthmore Boro ( see map to right )).

Swarthmore is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Swarthmore is located at ( 39. 901788 ,-75. 347083 ).

According to Pennsylvania state policy, Swarthmore is considered too small a town to have its own secondary schools.

Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1, 500 students.

The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles ( 17. 7 km ) southwest of Philadelphia.

He is the recipient of12 honorary doctorates, including from Swarthmore, Tufts, Columbia, Tulane, University of Natal, and Tsinghua University.

* Jane Addams Collection, 1838-date ( bulk 1880-1935 ) ( 130 linear feet ) is housed at Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

Haverford is a member of the Tri-College Consortium, which allows students to register for courses at both Bryn Mawr College and Swarthmore College.

A single group shared between Haverford, Bryn Mawr College, and Swarthmore College is Chaverim.

According to the 2010 U. S. News and World Report rankings, Wellesley College is the # 4 liberal arts college in the United States, tied with Middlebury College, behind Williams, Amherst and Swarthmore.

The student run Good Food Project have been at the forefront of the Slow Food movement in Philadelphia, which is headed by Swarthmore German Professor Hansjakob Werlen.

According to 2012 U. S. News and World Report rankings, Carleton College is the # 6 liberal arts college in the United States along with Bowdoin College, ranking after Williams College, Amherst College, Swarthmore College, Pomona College, and Middlebury College.

Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, and is part of the Tri-College Consortium along with two other colleges founded by Quakers — Swarthmore College and Haverford College.

The 2007 Swarthmore Lecture has the title Ground and Spring, taken from Nayler's " There is a spirit.

West was born in Springfield, Pennsylvania, in a house that is now in the borough of Swarthmore on the campus of Swarthmore College, as the tenth child of an innkeeper.

Ursinus is a member of the Centennial Conference, founded in 1992, and which now contains eleven highly-selective private colleges in the mid-Atlantic region, including Bryn Mawr, McDaniel, Johns Hopkins, Dickinson, Haverford, Franklin and Marshall, Swarthmore, Gettysburg, Muhlenberg, and Washington.

Among other interests during his time at Swarthmore, he was a founding member of Sixteen Feet, an a cappella vocal octet.

Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1970, he was a member of the faculties of Swarthmore College, Princeton University, and Haverford College.

The two institutions join with Swarthmore College to form the Tri-College Consortium, opening the Swarthmore course catalog to interested Bryn Mawr students as well.

Lucretia Mott was among those who insisted that Swarthmore be coeducational.

The study found that Swarthmore ranked third among all institutions of higher education in the United States as measured by the percentage of graduates who go on to earn Ph. D .' s.

There have been some differences among western analysts as to the role played by ideology in Al Wefaq ’ s agenda: according to Dr Toby Jones of Swarthmore College, “ Al Wefaq does not espouse a specific ideological vision ”; while Steven Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations has described Al Wefaq ’ s policies towards women as “ outrageous ”

FWCC was set up at the 1937 Second World Conference of Friends in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, US, " to act in a consultative capacity to promote better understanding among Friends the world over, particularly by the encouragement of joint conferences and intervisitation, the collection and circulation of information about Quaker literature and other activities directed towards that end.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Peter van de Kamp of Swarthmore College made another prominent series of detection claims, this time for planets orbiting Barnard's Star.

Nelson earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Swarthmore College in 1959, a master's degree in sociology from Harvard University in 1963 and a Doctorate in Media and Governance from Keio University in 2002.

Nelson earned a BA from Swarthmore College in 1959.

Graduating from Fargo Central High in 1952 and then graduating with a degree in music from Swarthmore College in 1957, he was the first student at Swarthmore and the only student in his class with such a degree.

Category: Swarthmore College alumni

Category: Swarthmore College alumni

* January 11, 1955: Swarthmore, Pennsylvania After some of his dorm mates urinated on his mattress Bob Bechtel, a 20-year-old student at Swarthmore College, returned to his dorm with a shotgun and used it to shoot and kill fellow student Holmes Strozier.

In historical areas of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, there are also a few mature American elms still standing — notably in Independence Square and the Quadrangle at the University of Pennsylvania, and also at the nearby campuses of Haverford College, Swarthmore College, and The Pennsylvania State University, believed to be the largest remaining stand in the country.

He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1955, served in the U. S. Army 1955 – 1957, stationed in Korea, and then received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1960.

Mauchly consistently maintained that it was the use of high-speed electronic flip-flops in cosmic-ray counting devices at Swarthmore College that gave him the idea for computing at electronic speeds.

The name was changed to Swarthmore after the establishment of Swarthmore College.

The borough was originally part of Springfield Township, and grew up around Swarthmore College, which was founded in 1864.

In 1966, she obtained a B. A., with high honors, in physics from Swarthmore College.

Only Caltech, at number one, and Harvey Mudd, in second, outranked Swarthmore, with Reed, MIT, Carleton, Oberlin, Bryn Mawr, University of Chicago, and Grinnell rounding out the top ten, respectively.

Haverford's Magill Library boasts more than a half million of its own volumes and has access to nearly two million more through its unusual Tripod computerized catalog system, which integrates its library with those of neighboring Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges.

* TriColleges ( Swarthmore, Haverford, Bryn Mawr )

The first undergraduate courses in DevRob were offered at Bryn Mawr College and Swarthmore College in the Spring of 2003 by Douglas Blank and Lisa Meeden, respectively.

* Bryn Mawr College's Developmental Robotics Project: research projects by faculty and students at Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr Colleges, Philadelphia, PA, USA

For a further list, search the Tripod catalog: TRIPOD: Library Catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges

The other founding members of the conference are Bryn Mawr College, Dickinson College, Gettysburg College, Haverford College, Johns Hopkins University, Muhlenberg College, Swarthmore College, Ursinus College, Western Maryland College, ( renamed McDaniel College ) and Washington College.