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The Claremont Colleges (known colloquially as the 7Cs) are a consortium of seven private institutions of higher education located in Claremont, California, United States.They comprise five undergraduate colleges (the 5Cs)—Pomona College, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College (CMC), Harvey Mudd College, and Pitzer College—and two graduate schools—Claremont Graduate University (CGU ...
The Pomona–Pitzer Sagehens are the joint varsity intercollegiate athletic programs for Pomona College and Pitzer College, two of the Claremont Colleges. [4] It competes with 11 women's and 10 men's teams in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) of the NCAA Division III .
An exterior view of the college in 1907, featuring its two earliest buildings: Sumner Hall (right) and Holmes Hall (left) [14] Pomona College was established as a coeducational and nonsectarian Christian institution on October 14, 1887, amidst a real estate boom and anticipated population influx precipitated by the arrival of a transcontinental railroad to Southern California.
Pitzer was founded in 1963 as a women's college by Russell K. Pitzer (1878–1978), a California citrus magnate, philanthropist, and Pomona College alumnus. In April 1963, John W. Atherton, the dean of faculty and a professor of English at Claremont Men's College (now Claremont McKenna College) was hired as Pitzer's first president, and over the next seventeen months he recruited students ...
Scripps is located in the center of the Claremont Colleges, [39] surrounded by Harvey Mudd College to the north, Pitzer College to the east, Claremont McKenna College and Pomona College to the south, and Claremont Graduate University to the west.
Pomona–Pitzer: 1895 [k] 2019 112 Battle for the Wagon Conestoga Wagon [33] Dickinson: Franklin & Marshall: 1889 2023 114 Battle of Sixth Street Battle of Sixth Street Trophy [34] [35] Claremont–Mudd–Scripps: Pomona–Pitzer: 1959 [l] 2019 Biggest Little Game In America: Amherst: Williams: 1884 2024 138 The Book of Knowledge [36] Carleton ...
Pomona-Pitzer is the only team in the world to use the Sagehen as a mascot, [18] and it is often noted for its goofiness. [19] [20] Rather than in the grouse's natural brown and white colors, the mascot is rendered in the team's official colors, blue (for Pomona) and orange (for Pitzer). [21] The precise origin of the nickname is unknown.
1971 - Pomona combined with Pitzer College for athletics to become Pomona–Pitzer, while La Verne re-joined back to the SCIAC, both effective in the 1971-72 academic year. 1976 - Claremont–Mudd combined with Scripps College for athletics to become Claremont–Mudd–Scripps , effective in the 1976-77 academic year.