The consortium known as “The Claremont Colleges” is a group of five undergraduate colleges and two graduate universities located within a square mile in Claremont, California. The first of these, Pomona College, was founded in 1887. In the late 1920s, Pomona president James Blaisdell decided to create a group of residential colleges based on the Oxford system. Scripps College was founded in 1926; followed... [Purchase this review to continue reading]