1927 | Education
Education
Scripps College for Women opens in October at Claremont, Calif., as one of several associated, but autonomous, colleges built around the nucleus of Pomona College. Publisher-philanthropist Ellen B. Scripps, now 89, has contributed more than $1.5 million to the new college and will add substantially to that figure in her will. She helped her brother James start the Detroit Evening News in 1873, helped her much younger half brother, the late E. W. Scripps, with six of his nine papers, and now owns shares in 16 papers nationwide.