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An exterior view of the college in 1907, featuring its two earliest buildings: Sumner Hall (right) and Holmes Hall (left) [14] Pomona College was established as a coeducational and nonsectarian Christian institution on October 14, 1887, amidst a real estate boom and anticipated population influx precipitated by the arrival of a transcontinental railroad to Southern California.
The Associated Students of Pomona College, commonly abbreviated as ASPC, [6] is the student government of Pomona College, a liberal arts college in Claremont, California, United States. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It was founded in 1904, and is composed of elected representatives. [ 9 ]
The class of 1894, Pomona's first graduating class, had 11 members. [1]Pomona College (/ p ə ˈ m oʊ n ə / ⓘ pə-MOH-nə [2]) is an elite [3] private liberal arts college in Claremont, California, and the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium. [4]
The Claremont Colleges (known colloquially as the 7Cs) are a consortium of seven private institutions of higher education located in Claremont, California, United States.They comprise five undergraduate colleges (the 5Cs)—Pomona College, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College (CMC), Harvey Mudd College, and Pitzer College—and two graduate schools—Claremont Graduate University (CGU ...
Claremont Colleges students and faculty rallied on campus less than a week after 19 students were arrested for occupying the Pomona College president's office. 'I can't focus on anything but rage.'
Ray Stanton Avery was born on January 13, 1907, in Oklahoma City. Avery lived in a rented chicken coop and worked at the Midnight Mission as a clerk in order to put himself through college. [5] After dropping out for a year to live in the USA, Avery graduated from Pomona College with a humanities degree in 1932.
Stuff like "Pomona College had 800 students in 1928, but its enrollment declined to 400 during the Great Depression." Or just something simple like "enrollment declined by 30% (-200 students)". I'm curious about this.
1915 - The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) was founded. Charter members included Occidental College, Pomona College, the University of Redlands, Throop College of Technology (now California Institute of Technology) and Whittier College, effective beginning the 1915-16 academic year.