Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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This is Tufts University, a school that is shown little deference acknowledgment or respect. Grandmothers think it’s “tufts” to get accepted. Neighbors think your going to be a dentist. Ringling Brothers thinks it’s “Tuft.” No one else has heard of it. Yet the Ivy League has asked Tufts to join its ranks numerous times and has been turned down every time. This is a school that is regarded as one of the finest ac- cademic institutions of higher education in the country and does not have to join the Ivy League to prove it. The fact that it doesn’t have a campus center, a football stadium or anything else necessary to join the League did not even enter into their decision. 7 r « . t ■ . n iv f £ ■ £ , - - 1

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The picturesque campus evokes all the prestige and esteem that is accorded to every ordinary time honored institution of this caliber. Yet, this is no ordinary institution. 1 i i i ■ i i 1 i i i it • • •

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This is also a school that receives fierce loyalty and devotion (rather than money) from everyone affiliated with it. Both the president of the Student Government in 1922, who complained about the lack of a central facility on campus where students could congregate, and the member of the Tufts political action coalition in 1982, who de¬ nounced the university for in¬ vesting in companies that are involved in the development of nuclear weapons, had the same goals: To improve the place they love — Their alma mater. rr — { Mi i