Word: claremont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Associated Colleges of Claremont, Calif, added a fifth liberal arts college to the four already in operation in Claremont. The new one: Harvey Mudd College, named after Mining Engineer Harvey Seeley Mudd. The college will emphasize basic science and engineering...
Through the big doorways of a white auditorium at Claremont, Calif, (pop. 7,000) one day last week, the presidents of three thriving colleges-E. Wilson Lyon of coeducational Pomona, Frederick Hard of Scripps College (for women) and George Benson of Claremont Men's College-filed in solemn procession for a special ceremony. As they do every two years, the three were meeting to proclaim which of them would serve as next provost of a fourth college, the Claremont Graduate School. This year, it happened to be President Hard's turn to take over; but the ceremony itself...
...behind the experiment is a goateed, retired Congregational minister named James Arnold Blaisdell. Last week, at 85, he was too tired from a round of fund raising to attend the ceremony, but he was nevertheless there in spirit. As founder of the Associated Colleges at Claremont, he still lives on the common campus, still receives a steady stream of callers, still chugs about in his 1934 Plymouth to offer advice to all who seek it. "After all these years," says one Claremont official, "Dr. Blaisdell is still the elder statesman of our world here...
Dine Together. When Congregationalist Blaisdell first arrived at Claremont in 1910, he moved into a world that was anything but prosperous. Pomona College, which he took over, was a dingy, debt-ridden place with an enrollment of 300 and only five buildings. Blaisdell immediately set to work writing alumni for funds. He made speeches, broadcast the name of Pomona across the state. By the end of World War I. Pomona had 750 students and more applicants than it could handle. It was then that Blaisdell made his decision : instead of allowing Pomona to grow into one big campus...
...Blaisdell opened the Claremont Graduate School right next to Pomona. That same year Miss Ellen Scripps, half-sister of the newspaper tycoon, became so enthusiastic about his idea that she gave him the first of many gifts ($500.000) to start a college for women. Finally, in 1947, the association opened the college...