The Origin of 47 at Pomona College, the 47 Society's own 1995 account of its 1964 founding by students Laurie Mets, Bruce Elgin and Buck Lawrence and of professor Donald Bentley's corollary proof, is the founding society's own primary account of its own history, read here as an interested party's own record rather than as independent verification. Its strength is direct founding-tradition authority. Its limit is that it is not independent scholarship or journalism about the phenomenon's later spread into popular culture, which other sources in this atlas's record cover.
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The 47 Society's own 1995 account of its 1964 founding, the middle tier reflecting the founding society's own primary record of its own history, an interested party's own account rather than independent verification, weighed against its unique direct founding-tradition authority for who founded the tradition and when. NotesThe Society's own account of its 1964 founding by students Laurie Mets, Bruce Elgin and Buck Lawrence, and of Professor Donald Bentley's corollary proof. A primary account from an interested party, read as such.
Citation
AuthorThe 47 Society
PublisherPomona College
Publication Year1995
URLhttps://47.net/47society/47story/origin.htm
Source TypeInstitutional
Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)
This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Numbers, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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