Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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At night the city’s lights make intricate patterns and as one looks out at them, the urge is to play a mental connect-the-dots game. 17

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Standing before the Miner-Paige Arch looking out over the Memorial Steps, one sees the industrial skyline and imagines the sea beyond. One of the most widely used tests for high hlood pressure is known as the “step-test”. The individual is required to climb up and down stairs, thus creating body reactions which mean something to the doctors. Any number of doctors could save themselves the expense of building such stairs by merely setting up shop at the top of the Memorial Steps. For throughout the day and night hundreds of students loaded down with books trudge up that ladder that seems to continue on forever. The stairway up to paradise for some, the stairway down to a hamburger or a trip into Boston for others, hut to all the cause of much puffing and many red cheeks when the summit is reached. 16

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1852 — The campus and scenes, symbols and faces that ivould have been typi¬ cal when the university was in its infancy. Then Ballou was the only building and the enrollment totaled thirty. While the motion picture industry struggled with their new projecting techniques, the Alumnae Lounge fast became the home of another hig screen picture. As we watched, the history of Tufts gradually grew before us, and many of our faces were included in the vast sweep. Thousands of photographs, draw¬ ings, and other collected material were pieced together in the project.