Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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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