Pomona College is located off the San Bernardino Freeway. The sign reads: Claremont Colleges Next Right, Exit 47.

Claremont McKenna College, named after Donald McKenna '29, was founded in 1947.

Tolstoy's novel The Kreutzer Sonata is named after Beethoven's Opus 47.

The New Testament credits Jesus with 47 miracles.

There are 47 pipes in the top row of the Lyman Hall organ.

The Declaration of Independence consists of 47 sentences.

The Disney comedy "The Absent-Minded Professor" features a basketball game filmed at Pomona's old Renwick Gym. The final score: 47-46

Harwood Dormitory has rooms 45 and 49, but (mysteriously) no Room 47.

In the film "The Towering Inferno," actor Richard Chamberlain '56 was the 47th person in line to be rescued.

Pancho Villa was killed by a barrage of 47 bullets.

The Pythagorean Theorem is Proposition 47 of Euclid's Elements.

There are 47 letters in the dedication plaque on Mudd-Blaisdell Hall, which was completed in 1947.

Cesar proclaimed "veni, vidi, vici" in 47 B.C.

At the time of Pomona's first graduating class (in 1894), there were 47 students enrolled.

The tropics of Cancer and Capricorn are located 47 degrees apart.

The type on the first four pages of the Pomona College web site measures 47 points.

If all this 47 trivia upsets your stomach, you'll be glad to know that Rolaids absorbs 47 times its weight in excess acid.

To read more about this mysterious number, visit the 47 Society Home Page.

The number 47 mysteriously appears in many episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Voyager, and Deep Space Nine. For an explanation of this phenomenon, visit Pomona's Star Trek Connection.

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