Pomona College - Metate Yearbook (Claremont, CA)

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AS FOR THE STUDENTS, THET A brief trip into the Harwood Court basement disclosed this well-traveled luggage, indica- tive of the fact that many Pomona students are or have been globe trotters. Those who have attended schools in foreign countries or in other parts of the United States. find that Pomona compares favorably with the best of them as to climate, curriculum and campus.

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BUILDING IS A LONG ONE For a time Sumner Hall WAS Pomona College. The college had Pomona men lived in Sumner until 1908, when Dr. D. K. originally been located in North Pomona, but was moved to Pearsons, with 525.000 to give. proposed that a dorm be Claremont upon the purchase of this building, which was then built. George Marston contributed some, also, and the Hotel Claremont. History instructor Iohn Kemble likes to dis- building was up in 90 days. The north section was used :lose that his office upstairs was at that time a bathroom. by ,the music department until it was crowded out. Esons hall had been built, the third of Pomona's important campus buildings. for some time. The basement was used for chemistry, the first floor tor m. The president's room and the business office were also in this building. The campus today occupies ' about 50 acres, has nineteen buildings. It has been made possible because of the gen- I A erosity of friends from Bos- ton to San Diego. who have endowed it with approxi- mately S7,000.000 worth of buildings, landscaping and equipment. There seems to be something about the place that attracts their in- terest and respect to the extent of reaching down for generous gifts. without which Pomona would be nothing but a dream. Q

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OME FROM EVERYWHERE OR ALL SORTS OF REASONS Once. before they even enrolled in Pomona College, freshmen were asked to write a letter, stating briefly their reasons for wanting to come here. They probably consulted a catalogue, tried to remember what people had told them about the place, and maybe they even attempted to think up something original. Anyway, most of them ended by saying approximately the same things, as we found when we checked with people whose iob it is to read the letters, and whom we asked to give us a line on why people said they came here. First of all, they chose Pomona because they wanted a small college, with opportunities, because of small classes, to get something more than impersonal lectures out of their pro- fessors. On a small campus they would not be little fishes in a big pond, but could very well master the whole place. The beauty of the campus was not a small fac- tor in their choice, and all of them who had visited Pomona before were enthusias- tic about their first impressions. Many of them had received recommendations from friends or teachers or relatives who were alumni, and whose loyalty inspired their decisions. The lecture and artist course series, the highly-successful placement bureau, the honors course system, the many extra-curricular activities-all of these things, on such a scale as they were that students could take them all in, and so round out their personalities better than in a larger, more complex, more impersonal school-all of these things affected their decision to come here. Registrar Howard Pattee, succeeded next year by assistant dean of students I. Edward Sanders, is responsible for lining up prospective Pomonans. Out of his office go piles of material telling what Pomona is all about, and he visits high schools to talk personally with graduating seniors. Other influences are publicity that gets into such papers as the Los Angeles Examiner and New York Times, and the interest aroused by the glee clubs as they tour, and suppos- edly, by exchange copies of METATE. 3 .-,mwe,....rJmf.-- .-..,.-...--..-v ,. ,...,,e