Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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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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