Pomona College - Metate Yearbook (Claremont, CA)

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■■ ■■■■■■HaBHHHHHHHHIj H HHHHfH Ofog 1 9 29 METATE To an undergraduate, these services were a revelation of the significance to the alumni of their college. One felt in all these speeches, the thrilling, pulsing current of their deep love and devotion to their Alma Mater. Pomona College had earlier pre- pared them, now it shone softly in reflected glory from them and eternally held their hearts. In the address by President Edmunds on accepting his appointment, he spoke of the great power of education and the value of a cultural college like Pomona. Society, he remarked, is not advanced by the average man but by the exceptional individual, and public opinion should be made by educated people who are hot to be molded by it . . . Pomona has its own peculiar place and its distinctive contributions to make; selecting its students with care, seeking to serve well those who truly desire advanced liberal education; and above all, free to experiment and to adventure in new methods without, at the same time, departing from its major tasks of preserving the finer traditions of cultural learning greatly needed in our time . . . Pomona must be made perfect as well as ' justified by its children ' . The importance of these events can hardly be over-estimated, marking as they do, many changes, both obvious and subtle in the development of the entire educational plan in our college. These ceremonies marked a mile-stone of paramount importance in the evolution of Pomona College and Claremont Colleges. To the hundreds of alumni, as well as students, who attended, they were fraught with the deepest signifi- The Inauguration Ceremonies i ii ■ nt Willi NHifflon tM ntr.i3ft YM .t a i »

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HHHHHBHHH iHBBI Hi HBiBli HBnHM iHH Hhe 19 2 9 METATE Walter Alfred Allen — Associate Professor of Musical Theory and Appreciation, and Instructor in Organ, 1912. B. A. Beloit College, B. M. Yale University, Associate American Guild of Organists. Arthur Babcock — Assistant Professor of Singing, 1921. Graduate of New England Conservatory of Music. Member of Faculty of New England Conservatory of Music. Pupil of Sbriglia, Paris. Reginald R. Bacon — Assistant Professor of Military Science and Tactics:, 1927. B. S. Agricultural College. Captain, United States Army. Grace Ella Berry — Associate Professor of Mathematics, 1909. Dean of Women, 1909-27. B. S. Mount Holyoke College. M. A. Mount Holyoke College. Thomas Montague Beggs — Instructor in Art, 1926. B. F. A. Yale University. Graduate Pratt Institute. Robert Tresilian Belcher — Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Engineering, Emeritus 1907. B. A. Queen ' s University. Graduate Student Queen ' s College and Uni- versity of California. Mary D. Bigelow — Instructor in Physical Education for Women, 1925. Graduate, Department of Hygiene, Wellesley College. Rosa Frieda Bissiri — Instructor in French, 1920. B. A. Kreuzlingen College, Switzerland. Frank Parkhurst Brackett — Professor of Astronomy on the Fran Par hurst Erac - ett Foundation and Director of the Observatory, Chairman of the Faculty, 1888. B. A. Dartmouth College. M. A. Dartmouth College, Honorary Fellow, Clark University. Raymond Cummings Brooks — Professor of Religion on the T ancy M. Lyon Foun- dation, 1921. B. A. Tabor College; B. D. Yale Divinity School; D. D. Tabor College and Whitman College; Graduate Student Oberlin College. George Samuel Burgess — Professor of Law, Secretary of the Faculty and Director of the Summer Session, 1918. B. A. University of Michigan; J. D. University of Michigan. Milton Erastus Churchill — Editor of College Publications, 1902. B. A. Knox College; M. A. Knox College; Litt. D. Knox College; B. D. Yale University; Graduate Student, University of Leipzig. Hope Ford Clokey — Instructor in Voice, 1926. B. A. Oberlin College. Joseph Waddell Clokey — Associate Professor of Organ, 1926. B. A. Miami University; Graduate Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. [18] HHHi