Tag: Ye Olde Student Life

The Claremont Colleges took part in a national protest calling for the end of the Vietnam War on Oct. 15, 1969. Classes were cancelled; instead, the colleges hosted talks, marches, rallies, and other opportunities to learn about different sides of the issue. The next day, TSL dedicated an entire issue to the

In 1965, TSL began devoting two pages per issue to a feature entitled “The Pitzer Pioneer.”At the time, Pitzer College was brand new. “The Pitzer Pioneer” was a way for a substantial amount of Pitzer-related news to circulate around the colleges without establishing a separate newspaper. This article, from Oct. 14,

  On this day in 1957, TSL published its first issue of the school year—with Kris Kristofferson as Sports Editor! The issue was full of articles written by sponsors and heads of the Associated Students of Pomona College welcoming Pomona first-years. One student, identified only as J.S.P., wrote this editorial

This week in “Ye Olde Student Life,” we journey back to the very first issue ever published—in November of 1889. Then called The Pomona Student, it featured the following from a column called “Locals,” which was full of snippets of news and trivia about the goings-on on campus (then just one building

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. EXAM TREMORS RECORDED May 28,