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.
In 1850, newly appointed Dominican Bishop Joseph Alemany approached a Jesuit priest, Fr. John Nobili, S.J. to see about turning Mission Santa Clara into a college. This meant transferring the Mission parish from Franciscan ownership to Jesuit ownership so on March 19, 1851, Mission Santa Clara and its adjacent lands became the first college of higher learning in the new state of California.