Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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The Chapel Impressions of Tufts After Four Years Someone not associated with a school will judge it by facts. He will base his evaluation on the names, dates, and fig¬ ures which are available. He will reduce it to a statistic—easily read, simply understood. But Tufts is more than facts. Tufts is also impressions. Some of these we share. The chapel we all know-the crush of freshman assembly, the year of Psychol¬ ogy lectures, the annual visit of Robert Frost, the bell summoning us to class and proclaiming the end of a successful day on the football field. We all know the Kursaal where a thousand cups of coffee are sold each day, where subjects are occasionally studied and constantly 2

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debated. We are all familiar with the confusion of registration, the rush at the Bookstore, the meeting of new friends in a new year. A play at the Arena Theatre, an operetta at Cohen Audito¬ rium, the library reading room-these are all parts of Tufts. But there are other impressions that make up our college. These are the mem¬ ories which we do not share and which we cannot explain to another. It may have been an all-night vigil before an exam, a walk across the campus in a snow storm, an exciting lecture, or per¬ haps a dull one. Perhaps it was an eve¬ ning sortie at Hy’s. Or a bridge game or maybe an evening at the Pops. It may Classes have been the last date of the year. It could have been a thousand things, all of which, important or insignificant, good or bad, become for the individual a part of Tufts. It would be impossible for any one of us to say how his impression of Tufts differs from another’s, for each person’s idea of his school will be his own. But Tufts will have left some mark upon us. For four years we have lived here and matured here. While we were part of Tufts, Tufts was all the time becoming part of us. Thus we will always know what it is that lies behind those facts, figures, and dates, for we, ourselves, represent a portion of them. 3