Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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Tufts College! These words mean many things to many people. The great Oliver Wendell Holmes called it Heaven. An anony¬ mous engineering student called it Hell. A summer School student, who attends another college, said, I love it. I wish I could remain here.” All of us have mixed feelings about the campus and its components. We both love it and hate it. But most of us will admit that our main feeling towards the college is one of indifference. Being too close to the campus, we can see only its faults and overlook many of its advantages. We accept as commonplace things which are extraordinary. Since the Class of 1948 entered (But when did it enter? ' ’There are some graduating who belong in the class of 1944) the college has undergone a greater period of expansion than it has ever seen in its 96 years of existence. Superficially, the college has doubled its enrollment and built several new buildings to meet the tightening condi¬ tions. Other construction plans for an even greater ex¬ pansion have gone past the formative stage and are nearly ready for actual work or announcement of projected build¬ ing. First buildings to go up were Hamilton Pool and Bray Laboratory. Next addition, albeit, temporary, was Stearns Village, for married veterans. Then came the new Maintenance Building, accomplishing two things in its construction. It centralized the varied activities of Mr. Friis’ efficient organization and it permitted expansion of the Electrical Engineering department and ROTC into the space formerly used. Nearly ready for use are the new Jackson Memorial Gymnasium and the combined bookstore and treasurer’s office. And after these buildings are completed, even more space will be available. The present Jackson Gymnasium will be given to the department of Drama and Speech and 3 P’s. The space in Ballou Hall, formerly occupied by the treasurer’s office, will become classrooms. The Library will be able to utilize the much-needed space which the Bookstore occupied. More important, construction of the Memorial Wing of the Library will begin. Doble Engineering has moved out of its building on the north slope of the Hill, and the departments of Edu¬ cation and Psychology have moved in. The building, now known as North Hall, offers much needed space to both departments and allows for efficient concentration of all branches of these departments. Hooper House is now being converted into an excellent infirmary for the men. The space in Barnum Museum which psychology used, has been returned to the biology and geology departments.

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But this is only the beginning. For more than two years now, we have read 3 P’s prologues in which an e fficient theater for the college has consistently been called for. The alumni want to build an Alumni Hall. There is a new Jackson dormitory in the offing. Tentative plans for it call for 80 rooms designed to house nearly 150 students. The land formerly occupied by the Rez will be put to good use, for what, it is still too early to say, but used, it certainly will be. And so, we can see that in physical plant alone, Tufts has expanded enormously, yet will grow even larger within the next few years. The small pre-war college never will return. For good or bad, the decision has been made and will be carried through. Education is not the humdrum affair it was. An urgency, created by the war, still exists which drives many veterans forward at a pace which would have been un¬ heard of in the good old days.” And in this drive, most of the college has been carried along. Some unwillingly, others finding new vigor and opportunity in this modified mass education we have been forced to adopt. Even so, college life has not proceeded at a pace nearly as fast as that which drove last year’s Senior class. In this second bona fide year of post-war college, we can find a levelling out of ideas and a new conception of education emerging. Dartmouth’s course in the Great Issues” is an indication of a new outlook. Our own ex¬ pansion in the fields of psychology, history, education and sociology is another. Small factors, yet encouraging since it shows the increasing realization of the importance of the social studies. Even so, it is still years too early to know what the end result will be. But we can see a better coun¬ try developing from them. What of this Senior class? It is a mixture as con¬ glomerate as the college has ever seen. At least one mem¬ ber of it graduated with the Class of 1947. Many will graduate in their proper year, but many more graduates of the Class of 1948 would have left the Hill sooner, but