Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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One hundred years have now passed since an enactment of the General Court of Massachusetts gave legal existence to Tufts College. Interest had mounted from discussions held as early as 1817 to culminate in a formal resolution of ' Hhe Universalist denominations of Christians ’ on March 17, 181 8 to establish “a Col¬ lege for the instruction of their young men in the higher branches of education,” and ' Ho build and endow such College by subscription.” Two years later, almost to the day, the subscriptions were begun in the name of the newly incorporated institution of learning. Proselyting within the orthodox institutions of that period gave impetus to the desire for an institution in which the simple pursuit of truth, and not the con¬ version to any particular religious tenets, should be the object sought. We are heirs of this liberal tradition ivithin which the college has been maintained, and to this day similar cause is given for the reaffirmation of that faith. For the further maintainance of educational freedom, we must continue to repulse those who pretend to authority by right of power, promotion of fear, or despotism of custom.

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James Warren Sherman ' Sditor-in-Chief Rita Ann Koch ffacksoM Sditor business Stanley Rae Mackay

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hi the year One Thowand i find Fifty, macui iy g naU c«d r - 2 . Photostatic copy of the original Act approved by Governor Briggs, March 20, 1850, and deposited in the archives of the General Court of Massachusetts. Mi ' -• ' 7