The members of this group vary widely in size and appearance but are generally characterized by their short tails, long necks, and rounded wings. Cranes, with their long legs and long necks, are the largest members of the Gruiformes; the sarus crane stands over five feet tall and has a wingspan of up to seven feet.
Known colloquially to students as the 7Csâor the 5Cs, when referring only to the undergraduate institutionsâthe Claremont Colleges were founded in 1925 when the all-graduate Claremont University College (now Claremont Graduate University) was established in addition to the older all-undergraduate Pomona College.
Spelman College was founded on April 11, 1881, when two teachers, Sophia Packers and Harriet Giles, from Boston, Massachusetts, began to teach 11 black women in the basement of Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta.It was then known as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary.pelman College is a private, historically black college for women, based in Atlanta, Georgia. The four-year, liberal arts college is an integral part of the Atlanta University Center, a cluster of six black colleges and universities.