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The Claremont Colleges

Many of the small colleges of these United States have their backs to the wall; every year they find it harder to adjust their budgets to rising costs. For the most part, the churches which founded many of them do not support them so heartily as once they did; the tremendous state universities and colleges, with their tuition-rates set far below cost of instruction, can offer a cheaper education; the famous athletic teams and many of the amenities of college life, “the second curriculum,” are superior at the big places; while specialization, particularly in the sciences, makes it harder for the small college to find competent professors and to pay for expensive equipment.

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The Claremont Colleges

Many of the small colleges of these United States have their backs to the wall; every year they find it harder to adjust their budgets to rising costs. For the most part, the churches which founded many of them do not support them so heartily as once they did; the tremendous state universities and colleges, with their tuition-rates set far below cost of instruction, can offer a cheaper education; the famous athletic teams and many of the amenities of college life, “the second curriculum,” are superior at the big places; while specialization, particularly in the sciences, makes it harder for the small college to find competent professors and to pay for expensive equipment.