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Word: mudd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Claremont Colleges. They started near Los Angeles in 1887 with coed Pomona, which in the 1920s decided to curb enrollment (now 1,085) by launching autonomous affiliates-Claremont University College (now 650 graduate students), Scripps (300 women), the postwar Claremont Men's College (450) and science-engineering Harvey Mudd College (230). On the group's 500 acres is room for seven more colleges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Union There Is Quality | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

...search of quality need regard as second choice such vigorous institutions as Antioch, Carleton, Grinnell, Hamilton, Haverford, Kenyon, Mills, Oberlin, Reed, and California's Oxford-inspired Associated Colleges (Claremont Men's, Harvey Mudd, Pomona, Scripps). All are tough to get into, and worth it. The California group's freshmen come almost entirely from the top 5% of their high school graduating classes. Pennsylvania's Haverford has long been a sort of pocket Harvard, has an impressive faculty-student ratio of 1 to 7. Iowa's Grinnell is known as "the Harvard of the Midwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Takes Good Nerves | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

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