Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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for the war. This blending of classes may not have been best, though there was an excellent opportunity to produce a new type of college graduate, a mixture of maturity and idealism not to be found in any other period of our history. One year is not enough time to produce something of this sort, the Class of ’47 can well answer that. Two years has afforded us a better opportunity, yet still there is a gap. Perhaps three years will be the minimum period needed to eliminate what little friction remains. If that is so, the next four years will constitute what will become known as the Golden Age of Education. What of this last year on campus? Beginning with the Mayoralty campaign, we saw a new life and spirit enter the student body. Whereas it took two days of vot¬ ing to produce a 60 per cent turnout for the all-important class elections in April, 70 per cent of the student body voted in the four hours provided to elect the mayor. It is perhaps disheartening that so much interest was shown to a burlesque of American politics while the important elections were comparatively poorly supported, but perhaps not. The Mayoralty campaign saw a new college spirit arise, and its manifestation has not died. The class elections,