cimorene

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you can see in the seal our latin motto, 'terras irradient.'

terras irradient = illumine the earth [w/ knowledge]. from the library special collections online archive page:

I must tell you a little story that has given me a chuckle. Two of my associates on the Mutual Life Insurance Company Board are Yale chaps of the class of 1912. The three of us dined together a week ago at the “21 Club” in New York City. As we were standing at the bar waiting for a call to dinner, what should I discover on one of the pillars alongside the bar but one of our Amherst Shields. I promptly told the Yale chaps that I would now find our how much of an education they had received at New Haven, and asked them to translate our Latin motto, Terras Irradient. After a lengthy pause, one of them spoke up --"Shiny dirt!"

* looks like pomona college ripped us off, ne!