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Pitzer's biggest asset is that its own inventive enthusiasm is teamed in comforting alliance with the Claremont Colleges, which will help pay Pitzer's bills until the school is self-sufficient. In the words of Classics Scholar Stephen Glass, a Pomona graduate: "There is newness here without risk...
...with great dignity." Destruction of Innocence. Endowed by Orange Grower Russell K. Pitzer with a $1.2 million trust, the school nestles on a plain beneath the rugged San Gabriel Mountains 35 miles from Los Angeles. Dedicated this week, Pitzer is the sixth sibling in the distinguished cooperative family of Claremont Colleges* and the first independent U.S. college for women since Bennington was founded...
...Harvard: "Right now the girls don't know the difference between social work and social science. But by the time they're seniors, they will be able to use the computer to analyze data." Until that happy day, instruction is backed up by established courses at other Claremont colleges, which "Pitzies," as the new breed is known, can attend...
...others: Pomona, Scripps, Claremont, Harvey Mudd, and a jointly run graduate school...
...taken into account. Success at Kenyon, said Dean Bruce Haywood, ultimately depends on a student's "individual taste and moral judgment." "The collection of knowledge is only the starting point," echoed Curtis Tarr, president of Lawrence University at Appleton, Wis. At Pomona College, one of the six associated Claremont Colleges of California, President E. Wilson Lyons also greeted freshmen with a call to use knowledge for moral ends...