Word: claremont
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Staying Power. The report, prepared by Howard R. Bowen, former president of California's Claremont Graduate School, and W. John Minter, an educational consultant, was based on a survey of 100 private colleges from 1969 into early 1975. Despite the depressed economy, the report noted that no major private colleges or universities have failed. Although about one-fourth of those surveyed are on shaky financial ground, the total assets of the 100 schools grew by 26%, while their Liabilities were rising by 18%. Income from private gifts went up 34%; government grants showed a 65% increase...
...rich supporter rewrote his will to cancel a $1 million bequest; a school official received a hate letter addressed "Dear Communist Pimp." The reason? A black-studies director at Claremont Colleges near Los Angeles had hired Communist Angela Davis as a part-time lecturer. Said Davis, back in a classroom for the first time since U.C.L.A. fired her in 1970: "All I was interested in was teaching a nice, small, quiet seminar. I really didn't want it to become a carnival-type situation." So as soon as she got through her first class...
...waterballers closed their season Sunday with 15-4 drowning at the hands of California power Claremont, who trounced Brown and Yale this weekend by equally lopsided scores...
Harvard and MIT will pool together its water polo stars this evening and take on the Brown team at 7:00 p.m. in Providence. The Cambridge all-stars will meet Claremont College of California on Sunday...
...large jar in a mountainside tomb outside Nag Hammadi. Most of them ended up in Cairo's Coptic Museum. Yet because of scholarly rivalries and unsettled political conditions in Egypt, no comprehensive study of the entire find was undertaken until 1970, after Presbyterian Robinson, director of Claremont (Calif.) Graduate School's Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, got UNESCO to assemble a team for the painstaking process of piecing together and editing the 1,191 surviving pages. The first of eleven volumes of an English translation appeared earlier this year...