History of Tufts University
During the 1970s, French American nutritionist Jean Mayer became president and through a series of acquisitions, increased the endowment six-fold and expanded the university.
During the 1990s and 2000s, Tufts continued to observe growth with the merger with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and the establishment of the Allen Discovery Centers.
On April 17, 1847, Sawyer issued a circular in the "Trumpet" and called for an "educational convention" to meet on Orchard Street in New York City on May 18.
Later on April 21, 1851 a committee on location was established and reported two favorable offers, a tract of 20 acres on a portion of the farm of Charles Tufts and a patch of land in 25 miles away in the town of Franklin.
The requirements for admission were the same as Harvard but most of the young men came from the country and had poor preparation, thus they were admitted under heavy conditions.
He installed a working telephone which connected his lab in Ballou Hall to his home on Professors Row.
[3] Other famous scholars included William Leslie Hooper who in addition to serving as acting president, designed the first slotted armature for dynamos.
His student at the college, Frederick Stark Pearson would eventually become one of America's pioneers of the electrical power industry.
Another notable figure was Stephen M. Babcock who developed the first practical test to determine the amount of butterfat in milk.
The trustees also voted to create a graduate school faculty and to offer the Ph.D. degree in biology and chemistry.
Completed in 1884 with an additional donation of $40,000, the building housed his collection of animal specimens and the stuffed hide of Jumbo the elephant, who would become the university's mascot.
The program of its meetings consisted of debates, essays and orations and for several years it was an important part of life in the college.
In 1860 members who were dissatisfied with the affairs of the Mathetican began a rival society known as the Walnut Hill Fraternity.
Two boat clubs were established and in the spring of 1865, the Theta Delta Chi fraternity provided members with a boathouse on the Mystic River.
The edifice was centrally located on top of the hill, with red brick walls, stone steps and elaborate marble columns and ornamentation in the neo-classical style.
In 1963, the gate was removed due to extensive construction and because its narrow aperture no longer sufficed for conveyances which had to enter the campus.
Cousens would commission the Olmsted Brothers to design the staircase and the landscaping of the Hill, referring to the campus as a garden.
In order to encourage students to stay on campus, the plan also included new housing on what is today Fletcher Field.
Fletcher's will left an estimated $3,000,000 for the university with $1,000,000 going to establish a new school of law and diplomacy and the rest for new buildings and their maintenance.
He convinced Braker to visit the hill in 1905 and invest in the development of a school devoted to the fields of economics, finance, and business administration.
In the spring of 1920 the board of trustees voted to establish the Braker School of Business Administration with students to be admitted in September 1920.
In 1925 the Board of Trustees used Braker's estate to establish graduate teaching fellowships to broaden course offerings in the department of economics.
[9] Due to travel restrictions imposed by World War II, the Boston Red Sox conducted spring training for the 1943 Major League season at Tufts College.
[11] Along with the other local stops in Somerville and Medford, Tufts College station was abandoned by 1950 due to competition from streetcars and buses.
[12] The College of Engineering added graduate study to its curriculum beginning in 1961, with master's degrees available in four departments.
[15] Under President Larry Bacow, Tufts started a capital campaign in 2006 with the goal of raising $1.2 billion to implement full need-blind admission by 2011.
[18] Tufts received the largest donations in its history since 2005, including a $136 million bequest to its endowment upon the dissolution of a charitable trust set up by 1911 alumnus Frank C. Doble,[19][20] a $100 million gift from eBay founder Pierre Omidyar to establish the Omidyar-Tufts Microfinance Fund,[21] and a number of $40 million-plus gifts to specific schools.
The new building joins the newly rehabilitated 574 Boston Avenue in the expansion of classroom and laboratory facilities for the engineering school.
[30] On September 24, 2016, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Boris Johnson, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Paolo Gentiloni, Jean-Marc Ayrault and Federica Mogherini in the first ministerial meeting on the campus grounds to discuss issues relating to the UK's vote to withdraw from the EU, the Iran nuclear deal, and violence in Syria, particularly in Aleppo.
The stop is the northern terminus of the E branch, located next to the Joyce Cummings Center and adjacent to Boston Avenue.
