in the West dedicated to educating women for both professional careers and personal growth. Scripps's "experiment in education" called for a setting with an artistic connection between buildings and garden landscape on an intimate scale.
=== Postwar era ===
Over time, the college has moved away from its finishing school–esque origins.
In 1968, students occupied a grove of olive trees to save them from being cut down to make space for construction of the humanities building.
=== 21st century ===
In 2000, the college opened a centralized dining facility, Malott Commons, ending the practice of serving meals in the residence halls.
In 2014, the college began admitting transgender women.
== Campus ==
Scripps College is frequently described as one of America's most beautiful college campuses and has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1984. In its 2017 edition of The Best 379 Colleges, the Princeton Review cited the campus as the 12th-most beautiful in the United States, as has been …
