Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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Truly, Tufts is swiftly outgrowing her small college status, yet fortunately she has been able to retain much of the personalized warmth and friendliness so often lacking in larger schools. Tufts, to the majority of the students, is still their college on the Hill, a place where most people know each other, though it may be only by sight. This bond, which has survived even during these recent years when enrollments have been disproportionately large, has become a valuable asset, especially since so many other colleges have lost it in the attempt to adapt themselves to the assembly line techniques of industry.

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The face of the Hill has undergone such radical changes within the past few years that visiting Old Grads, after trying to find their way around the campus, have been known to seek with relief the sanctuary of the Lechmere bus. Their old sparking ground, the Rez, has been modernized into a parking spot, but constant supervision by the Royal Mounted has made it impossible as yet for the mechanized student to take full advantage of this improvement. The new bookstore went into operation at the beginning of the Fall Semester, and the old excuse of flunking an exam because the counter could not be reached to buy a text¬ book is no longer permissible. Down on the area that formerly contained the second hole on the golf course, Tufts men look with pride at the new Henry Clay Jackson gym¬ nasium, definite assurance that future Jack- son women will be kept in beautiful shape. This building, like the bookstore, was de¬ signed with an eye to harmony as well as utility, and both additions have contributed much toward the overall beauty of the campus. To further guard the health of Tufts students, Hooper House has been con¬ verted into an infirmary, thus fulfilling a longstanding need of the college.

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The 1949 graduating class, the 96th in the history of Tufts College, is the largest and probably the most heterogeneous of all ninety-six. Many are being graduated who enrolled immediately after their discharge from the service. Their period of training over, they must again return to the work¬ aday life with which many of them are all too familiar. Those in the class who entered directly from high school will at first find their new life full of perplexities and they may well wonder if it is worth the effort just to be eligible for Social Security at sixty- five. But all are aware that the years they have spent at Tufts have been fruitful ones. She has extended many opportunities. We per¬ haps have not taken advantage of all, yet we cannot help having gained the advan¬ tage of some. Her contribution has not been simply the presentation of factual knowledge; she has likewise endeavored to make us become individuals, and encour¬ aged us to gain strength through self-re¬ liance. In the troubled world of today, these factors are indispensable and having acquired them, a fuller share of happiness should be ours. For this we owe our grati¬ tude to Tufts.