Pomona College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925 it became the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium of adjacent, affiliated institutions. A four-year undergraduate college, it enrolls about 1700 students and offers 48 majors in liberal arts disciplines. Pomona's student body is noted for its racial, geographic, and socioeconomic diversity. Among the college's traditions is a reverence for the number 47. Its athletics teams, the Sagehens, compete jointly with Pitzer College in the SCIAC, a Division III conference. Pomona has the lowest acceptance rate of any U.S. liberal arts college. It is considered the most prestigious liberal arts college in the American West and one of the most prestigious in the U.S. It is a top producer of fellowship recipients and has prominent alumni in various fields.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1896:

An Arctic expedition led by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen reached 86°13.6′N, almost three degrees beyond the previous Farthest North latitude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridtjof_Nansen

1949:

The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, based on Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener, opened on Broadway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_%28musical%29

1972:

Communist forces overran the South Vietnamese town of Lộc Ninh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Loc_Ninh

1995:

First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops began a massacre of hundreds of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samashki_massacre

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

chivvy: 1. (transitive, Britain) To coerce or hurry along, as by persistent request. 2. (transitive, Britain) To subject to harassment or verbal abuse. 3. (transitive, Britain) To sneak up on or rapidly approach. 4. (transitive, Britain) To pursue as in a hunt. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chivvy

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

We have all seen the atrocities that have been committed in Bucha and other places in Ukraine. This reveals the true nature of President Putin's war, and the targeting and killing of civilians is a war crime and therefore, NATO allies are supporting the international efforts to establish all the facts, to investigate, and to make sure that perpetrators are punished. ... We have seen no indication that President Putin has changed his ambition to control the whole of Ukraine and also to rewrite the international order. So we need to be prepared for the long haul. We need to support Ukraine, sustain our sanctions, and strengthen our defences and our deterrence, because this can last for a long time and we need to be prepared for that.   --Jens Stoltenberg https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jens_Stoltenberg