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Pomona College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925 it became the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium of adjacent, affiliated institutions. A four-year undergraduate college, it enrolls about 1700 students and offers 48 majors in liberal arts disciplines. Pomona's student body is noted for its racial, geographic, and socioeconomic diversity. Among the college's traditions is a reverence for the number 47. Its athletics teams, the Sagehens, compete jointly with Pitzer College in the SCIAC, a Division III conference. Pomona has the lowest acceptance rate of any U.S. liberal arts college. It is considered the most prestigious liberal arts college in the American West and one of the most prestigious in the U.S. It is a top producer of fellowship recipients and has prominent alumni in various fields. (Full article...)

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The California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) is a coastal species of eared seal native to western North America. It is one of six species of sea lion. Its natural habitat ranges from southeast Alaska to central Mexico, including the Gulf of California. This female sea lion was photographed next to a western gull in Scripps Park in the neighborhood of La Jolla in San Diego, California.

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