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Page 22 text:
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Having received this cliarter of organiza¬ tion on April 21, 1852, the Trustees met again in .Inly to plan the erection of college buildings, and at that meeting Rev. Thomas J. Sawyer was unanimously elected as President of the College. The instruction to the committee on buildings was to “proceed immediately to erect a building for the use of the college.’’ On May 24, 1853, the trustees “voted, that it is not in th pinvet4iTlllisJ3oard to com¬ ply with thje- j6ndition on which fevv awyer has expressed willingness to accept the oflifcfeof president, and therefore that the office is v ( t.” Two days later it was recommended ‘that Rev. Hosea Ballou, 2nd, be appointed President of Tufts College,” and he was there-;
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The suggested names varied equally with the proposed sites and of Massachusetts«lacted and Governor Briggti-. signed the cliiCfter incorporating Tufts College on Marcli iO, 1850, it was the first instance of using name and the location which have contiiliued now for one hundred years. From thajt date deposits and subscriptions were re- red in its name. These subscribers were called together in Boston on Tuesday, September 16, 1851, at which time Bev. T. J. Sawyer reported for the business committee appointed in 1847, that the sum required to bind all offers had been sub- ila ' ibed. On September 18, the Board of Trus¬ tees was elected. At the first formal meeting of the trustees, November 19, 1851, the twenty- tKree members were present, and voted to obtain charter for academic organization in the next session of the legislature. I .. ..JU
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