Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-11

OF the majesty OF Mount Dan AN
in the solitude of the sage-scented
of the towering mountains coura
zeal for tasks to come.
Nor has this location the drawbacks
which so often accompany compar-
ative isolation. Five railway trains
day each way bring the concerts and
educational advantages of Los Angeles
into easy accessibility, while each
year through the C1aremont lecture
course and the Thursday lecture hour
the best musicians, speakers and men
of affairs who come to the coast are
brought to the college itself. Thus the
students have been permitted to near
Jacob Riis, Adele Verne, DR.. w. I.
Grenfell, David Bispham, Robert With
erspoon, Maud Powell Booker T.
washington. Lyman Abbott, Wash
angton GLADDEN. and others. After De-
cenber /, 1910, through the completion
of a branch of the Pacific Electric
company, the city will have transpor-
tation by electric railway every thirty
minutes to Los Angeles In either di-
rection. Her isolation, then, is rather
an advantage, for the difficulty of get
ting to the city is great enough to free
the students from the influence of its
distractions, at once so wasteful OF
time, of energy and too often even of
character Thus is emphasized for
Pomona one of the points wherein the
small college has the advantage over
a university.
COMMUNITY LITE
Moreover, her location away from
any large city offers conditions ideal
for the development of democratic
community life, a good student morale
and an active college spirit. AS few
students live more than three-min-
ute walk from the campus, all come
to know each other, and the resulting
democracy of spirit is increased by
the absence Of fraternities and by the
social activities of the classes. Most
important, however, is the leveling in
f1uence of the college commons, where
most of the students board and even
class lines are forgotten. A student
cannot rub elbows with his fellows day
after day at table without learning
their true worth. and the close asso-
citation of many gives worth its true
place. There is no caste at Pomona.
STUDENT MORALE
One natural result is the high moral
tone of the student body. The small
ness of the community makes 1t pos
sible for the faculty largely to con-
troll the habits Of the students, who
are thus protected from many of the
ills to which students are heir. But
the student body itself generally takes
the initiative in the handling of stu
dent affairs. For several years the
college customs and most intercolle-
giate relations have been in the hands
of the associated students, who have
uniformly sought to keep such mat
ters on a clean and honorable basis.
And now, with self-government, the
associated students and the mems or
ganization have taken hold of the va
rious social problems with a deter
4,.Ik 1i-a oil
for the future. They have already
gained control over interclass rushing,
class insignia and similar matters, and
In their verdicts have not hesitated to
jeopardize even athletic prestige in the
interests of a dignit1ed, self-respecting
student morale.
COLLEGE SPIRIT
In a. city where the students separate
widely at the end of each recitation
day the unity SO essential to a vital
college spirit is seldom found. Ex-
actly the opposite conditions, however,
prevail at Pomona. From their near
by homes the students are easily
brought together, and no important
intercollegiate contest, athletic or lit
erary, passes without a rousing rally,
made the more rousiug by good col
lege band. This spirit finds its best
expression, however, in loyalty for
undergraduate, but the graduate as
we'll The most striking evidence Of
the persistence of this love for the
college is the alumni athletic field, the
finest athletic field in Southern Call
fornia.
RELATION OF TEACHER AND STUDENT
The advantages that a small college
has to offer in the closer relations of
teacher and student are enhanced at
Pomona, for, as is evident, teachers
and pupils are inevitably thrown to-
gether in a social as well as a scholas-
tic way Thus there exists on the part
of the one an even more lively inter-
est than usual in the welfare and
aspirations Of the other, with the re-
suit that the mutual relations are gen.
orally warm and personal. The effect,
not alone upon the lessons, but more
especially upon the lives Of the stu
dents, is marked.
RELIGIOUS LIFE
The religious environment Of the stu
dents is also what might be called
ideal Instead of several weak
churches, Claremont has but a single
church in which are united members
representing eighteen denominations.
There is thus not only the assurance of
an able pastor, but the students have
ever before them helpful example of
Christian brotherhood. The college
itself has daily chapel services, active
Young Mems and Young Women's
Christian associations and many mis-
sions and allied religious classes. The
influence Of the assistant pastor of
the church. who is also general secre-
tary of the Y. M. C. A, helps to make
the religious life of the college a wide
awake and active one.
DORAuTORIEs
Pomona has other advantages. how
ever than those resulting from her To-
cation. No small part in the mould
ing and unifying Of the college life
is played by the two dormituries sum
ner and Smiley halls. Both halls en-
Joy self-government and have parlors
and recreation rooms in which their
Sc cial life centers. Sumner hall, the
dcrmitory for women, though the old
est building on the campus, has been
recently renovated and enlarged so as
10 accommodate upwards of seventy
students. Smiley hall, as q dormitory