to invest money into creating a college campus that would preserve her values of education. Over the next several years, she bought surrounding lots of land in Claremont and funded the construction of a new set of dormitories in what became "Scripps College for Women." According to Scripps, "The paramount obligation of a college is to develop in its students the ability to think clearly and independently, and the ability to live confidently, courageously, and hopefully." To provide a liberal arts experience with both an all-women's education and co-education, she wanted the college "to stress the essentials, reduce the size of the curriculum instead of increasing it."
Scripps initially did not want the college to be named after her, but Blaisdell convinced her that her name would help grow and publicize the college.
The development of Scripps College marked the start of Claremont's "group-college" system, similar to that of the Oxford Colleges, for which Scripps received much publicity. Scripps was featured …
