Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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The Administration of the COLLEGE, including the President , the Deans , and the several members of the Faculties of Arts and Sciences of TUFTS COLLEGE

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Fletcher

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Elsewhere in the pages of this book will be found illustrated and described the new buildings which are the latest additions to the progressing plant of Tufts College. The illustrations will be viewed with interest, the descriptions read with attention by some who have watched the changing aspect of the campus as the actual construction of the buildings proceeded, by others who, unfamiliar ivith what has been going on, receive for the first time a clear impression of the physical growth of the College, by all ivith gratitude that the editors of the J UMBO BOOK have so well recorded an accomplishment which at once in itself the source of the greatest present satisfaction and the justification of the highest hope for the future. After a long period during which there was no physical expansion, Tufts College entered Jive years ago upon a construction program of which the Campus Fence, the Gates, and the four buildings ,— Pearson Memorial Laboratory for Chemistry, Fletcher Hall, Broker Hall, and Stratton Hall,—are as it were but the prelude. Funds and gifts for building already received and to be expected in in¬ creasing amounts, together with the annual income from the residuum of the Fletcher Estate, which by the conditions of the will must be used for new construction, make it reasonable to look forward to a time in the not too distant f uture when the physical equipment of Tufts College relative to her needs will be second to none in this country. Plans for so comprehensive an achievement must of course develop slowly and change continually in the light of changing conditions. Details can be determined only for brief periods at a time, but perhaps it may be safe to prophesy that within one year Miner Hall ivill be remodelled for the School of Religion, the Crane Chapel and Library finished and the Memorial Steps and Main Gateway ,— plans for which hai ' e been already published, — completed; that within two years Professor Lewis’ dream of a Music Building ivill be a reality; that within three years there will be a new physical edu¬ cation plant including gymnasium, swimming pool, squash courts, winter tennis courts, and baseball cage; that within five years there will be another dormitory for men; that in the near but unpredictable future there will be a Modern Language Building and an Alumnae Social Centre and Guest House. In addition, not yet in the realm of plans and beyond the region of prophecy, there looms the great project of the Medical-Dental School moved to the Hill. From the President. 18