Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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RLiL. The Trustees of Tufts College President Harold Edward Sweet Vice-President Sumner Robinson Secretary Harvey Eastman Averill Treasurer WlL lard Eugene McGregor Executive Committee Arthur Winslow Peirce, Chairman Sumner Robinson John Albert Cousens Ira Ri ch Kent Guy Monroe Winslow Harold Edward Sweet Melvin Maynard Johnson James Porter Russell Thomas Sawyer Knight Arthur Ellery Mason John Albert Cousens Charles Rice Gow Finance Committee John Russell Macomber Richard Bradford Coolidge Earle Perry Charlton T Sumner Robinson J. Frank Wellington Arthur Ellery Mason Arthur Winslow Peirce John Albert Cousens Ira Rich Kent Charles Hial Darling Robert Calthrop Brown Guy Monroe Winslow Harold Edward Sweet M ELVIN M aynard Johnson James Porter Russell Thomas Oliver Marvin Cora Polk Dewick •ustces Frederick Samuel Fogg Robert William Hill John Russell Macomber Payson Smith Vincent Eaton Tomlinson Frederick Crosby Hodgdon Eugene Bucklin Bowen Richard Bradford Coolidge Earle Perry Charlton Charles Rice Gow Thomas Sawyer Knight Frank Howard Lahey Louis Craig Cornish Frank Warren Knowlton

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JUMBQ The Deans Administration of the Academic work at Tufts College on the “Hill” is directly managed by the Deans of our five schools. The oldest and largest school on the Hill is that of the Liberal Arts. It was the immediate result of the “Educational Convention” held in New York in 1847. The School of Liberal Arts is the parent of the many schools that have sprung from it. This school opened in 1855 and its first degrees were conferred in 1857. The purpose of this was originally and still is to broaden the student and fit him culturally for life. Frank George Wren, Dean of the School of Liberal Arts, has held this position since 1907, and prior to his becoming Dean had been actively connected with the College as Instructor and Professor since 1893. It was due to the activities of members of the Universalist denomination that our College came into being. They felt that the time had come to establish an institu¬ tion of higher education for the young men of their faith. It was natural, then, that as soon as expansion were possible a Divinity School should be the first addition. Lee Sullivan McCollester, a graduate of the School of Religion in 1884, has been its Dean since 1912. Although an Engineering Course was given as early as 1865 the School did not approach its present proportions until much later. The Department of Engineering was founded in 1898. The School of Engineering organized on its present plan., was established in 1902. George Preston Bacon, Professor at Tufts since 1919, became Dean of this School in 1929. The departments of Tufts were first opened to women in 1892. Seventeen years later the women became a separate department of Tufts called Jackson College. The giving of a different name to the women’s department did not mean, however, that their courses or faculty were not the same as that of Tufts. They have continued to be as much a department of Tufts as before. Dean Edith Lin- wood Bush received her A.B. degree from Tufts in 1903 and in 1920 became a mem¬ ber of the Faculty. She was made Dean of Women in 1925. The aim of the Dean is to be a sympathetic advisor to the girls and especially to guide the new students toward a happy adjustment to the campus life. In 1892 a Graduate Department was created at Tufts. Under this department were those who took advanced work beyond the regular college requirements. The Graduate School, with its own Dean and Faculty, superceded the Department in 1909. Herbert Vincent Neal has been Dean of the Graduate School since 1924. 21