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StyleID: Stags With Swag

StyleID: Stags With Swag

There’s snow on Baldy, there’s hail in Claremont, and we’re alternately shivering and sweating between classes.  Dressing for fall in SoCal can be an impossible...

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Harry Potter and the Mediocre Ending

Harry Potter and the Mediocre Ending

For many in our generation, the end of the Harry Potter series marks the end of a more significant era: our childhoods.  I first encountered the wizarding world...

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Your NON-required Summer Reading List: Summer 2011

Your NON-required Summer Reading List: Summer 2011

Whether this summer will bring you surf and sunshine or business wear and metro rides, chances are you’ll have some time to spare for something novel: reading...

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Letters to Home: Siena, Italy

Letters to Home: Siena, Italy

My Dear CMC, Oh CMC, how thrilled I am to return to you in the fall! I can only hope that all of you back on campus have had a stellar spring semester—I certainly...

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The Challenge of the Campus

The Challenge of the Campus

“The Analyst Papers,” named in honor of CMC’s first student newspaper, the Analyst, is a five-part series published by the Forum, the official student publication...

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Claremont’s Most Im(press)ive Place

Claremont’s Most Im(press)ive Place

No one visits the fortress of Honnold-Mudd Library for fun and games.  When we climb the stairs up to the fourth floor’s silent zone or the musty chambers of...

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Q&A with John Faranda

Q&A with John Faranda

Most CMCers don’t know how the Athenaeum program started, or that CMCers used to hire typists for their senior theses, but one alumnus-in-residence remembers. It...

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