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.
Princeton Review Ranks Claremont McKenna College No. 1 in New Category: Their Students Love These Colleges. Thursday, August 16, 2012 - 6:00am. The 2013 edition of the Princeton Review's The Best 377 Colleges ranks Claremont McKenna College No. 1 in a brand new category: Their Students Love These Colleges.. The ranking represents responses from more than 122,000 surveyed students who were asked whether they were satisfied with their choice of college.