The struggle for gender equality has taken place in TSL’s pages throughout its history. It’s also been reflected in the composition of its staff. Today, approximately 60 percent of TSL’s senior staff members are female, but in the 1940s, women were severely underrepresented in senior positions. However, it seems that for one
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Ye Olde Student Life: Massive Flood Devastates Claremont
Claremont has experienced an unusually wet winter this year, but the hydrophobic among us can at least take solace in the fact that our morning commute to class does not (yet) require a boat. Prior to the completion of San Antonio Canyon dam in 1956, Claremont was periodically inundated with
Ye Olde Student Life: TSL Argues for Prohibition
The Claremont Colleges today are not exactly known as a dry campus, but back in 1925, during the height of the Prohibition era (1919–33), the temperance movement was going strong. It’s impossible to know exactly what then-Editor-In-Chief George W. Savage—who wrote this editorial for our Feb. 23, 1925 issue—would think if
Ye Olde Student Life: Pomona Rebels Against Japanese Internment
President Trump’s recent executive order banning immigration from seven majority-Muslim nations was viewed by many 5C students as xenophobic. I unearthed in TSL’s February 13, 1943 issue another instance where we rebelled against the xenophobia of the nation as a whole, which during World War Two resulted in the internment
Ye Olde Student Life: Pomona In Computer Age With Newest IBM Monster
Eminent futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted massive technological advances in the coming decades during his talk at Pomona College’s Bridges Auditorium on Feb. 7. Looking at how far we’ve come since we reported on one of our early computers in this front-page article from our Sept. 30, 1965 issue, it’s easy
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While I would have loved to finish my Ye Olde TSL tenure with a truly revelatory find, I have too much essay-writing left to spend hours in TSL’s archives this week. So, from 1926, here’s a humorous look at how our professors prepare for the finals we dread. _x000D_ _x000D_ EXAM TREMORS RECORDED
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Pomona College has been navigating municipal bureaucracy recently, in the hope of building a new art museum (see p. 1 for details.) Since the museum may have a new home soon, this week’s Ye Olde TSL looks back to the year the current building opened: 1958. _x000D_ _x000D_ Gladys K. Montgomery Art Building Will
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Baseball games on campus were rained out this week. Despite Claremont’s notoriously sunny climate, it turns out rain cancellations have been a proud tradition since 1889, when Pomona College fielded its first baseball team. “Records in the ‘Student’ for 1889,” TSL reported in 1925, “show that only a very few games
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Look, we don’t really understand why a headline writer decided that a fashion show constituted a threat to the college. It was the time of the Great Depression; things were weird. All we know is that this article is some of the most aggressive, adjective-heavy advertising for a campus event
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On Oct. 17, 1967, TSL printed a student survey under the inconspicuous headline “Pomona Organic Test (POT).” The survey is too long to reprint in its entirety, but we’ve excerpted some of the better questions here, including a memorable assessment of the 1968 presidential field. _x000D_ _x000D_ Pomona Organic Test (POT) _x000D_ _x000D_