Word: claremont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beneath this proposal lay the principle so often propounded by champions of "the small liberal college." The effect desired was much like the scheme which is being worked out, from the bottom up, at Claremont Colleges (Monterey, Calif.), in the creation of whose first unit, Pomona College, Harvard men have taken active parts. More interesting: the actual details presented were identical, save for one important exception, with the celebrated "quad" system which the late Woodrow Wilson sought, 15 years ago, to apply to Harvard's associate, Princeton, and which got him "kicked upstairs" into politics. Woodrow Wilson, thoroughgoing theorist, wanted...
...current "Time" bears news of the interesting attempt of Pomona College, Claremont, California, to emulate, in its expansion, the Oxford organization. Since its founding in 1888, Pomona has restricted its enrollment to 700, believing the maintenance of its small college character essential to proper touch between instructor and student. However, when there came that urge to expand which is now a burden on every American college, the authorities laid plans to expand, by units, that is, to add to Pomona, as funds should become available, independent undergraduate schools, connected with the original college only through the corporation and reign...
Thus another English feature is applied as an American innovation. As an educational experiment the fortunes of the Claremont Colleges ought to be of wide interest. The main issue seems to be whether these colleges can obtain a university outlook with a small college organization. The units, obviously, will not have the traditions which bequeath the Oxford colleges their intellectual heritage. The American attempt must find its success in American conditions...
...seems very likely that a more varied and excellent faculty will be employed than single small colleges can afford For as the Claremont accumulation of units grows, the benefit of a necessarily broadening and increasing staff will accrue to each college. It thus remains to be seen whether a faculty of university excellence working with scholars living under small college conditions will evolve a completer education than American institutions of either type have so far succeeded in doing...
...California Oxford does not call itself a "university," that term having assumed a peculiar connotation in the U. S. It calls itself Claremont Colleges. Lately the Harvard Alumni Bulletin set forth the aims and status of Claremont Colleges, an educational project unique in interest and possibilities. Harvard's interest was intimate; graduates of hers have helped make Claremont history for 5 years...