Word: claremont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classroom at little Claremont (Calif.) College one morning last week, a professor solemnly stood up before his class, threw his coat over his arm and, pretending to be a waiter, started handing out menus. The professor was not trying to be funny. Nor did his students laugh, for they were taking up a highly serious matter: how to order an American lunch...
Such scenes were taking place last week at 17 different U.S. campuses. Claremont was merely typical of a special nationwide orientation program that the State Department has set up. Dismayed by how long it takes for foreign exchange students to adjust to U.S. ways, State began experimenting last year, picked out a series of centers where students could go for indoctrination before moving on to their regular work at the colleges and universities of their choice. This year, with the program put on a permanent basis, 800 students from 52 different countries are now taking part...
...Claremont's 38 students present a wide range of problems-from the "homusicku" (homesick) Japanese boy who cannot eat fried eggs, to the Indian who refuses to shower in the nude ("I shall wear my swim suit"). For such students, Claremont found that drills on grammar and pronunciation were beside the point. "In six weeks," says Dean Emmett Thompson, "we've got to give them a complete course in Americana...
...Early this year, the Council for Social Action was itself criticized by some church members for 1) a left-of-center point of view, and 2) a tendency to make pronouncements on behalf of the entire church membership (TIME, March 17). At the Congregationalists' biennial conference in Claremont, Calif. last week, delegates, by a vote of 689 to 31, approved the council's program "with commendation," but asked the council to speak for itself and not for the church in its Washington lobbying...
...Claremont, Calif, one day last week, delegates to the Congregationalists' biennial general council nonetheless met for another discussion of the proposed union. After a debate that lasted far into the night, they voted 964 to 55 "to continue to look forward" to a merger, appointed a committee to work out details with Reformed Church leaders. But they agreed to go slow until the merger argument has been threshed out in the courts...