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When Tufts University was still a grassy hilltop almost 110 years ago, a group of Universalist ministers met in New York and decided that colleges in general were godless things which produced mainly bigots, atheists and scoffers. They said, of course, that Harvard was the one exception to this, but agreed that even Harvard was too close to a city of temptation to be really safe...
...evident today that Tufts has been no disappointment to its founders' ideals. This little college community, set on a 200-acre hilltop between Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, has put into practice the very basic principles on which it was established...
Tufts plans for the future are still very modest. It has no desire to become a large expanding university, but only to enhance its reputation of being the good little university on the hill. And it appears that as long as democracy prospers and increases, this small hilltop democracy is sure to continue its successful ways.Carmichael Hall, the new men's dormitory at Tufts named in honor of the College's recent president...
...show is perhaps the rarest bird of all: Millionaire Museum Director Richard E. Fuller, 59, Manhattan-born, Yale-educated cousin of Novelist J. P. Marquand. With his mother, the late Mrs. Margaret Fuller, Art Patron Fuller put up $300,000 in 1933 to build Seattle's hilltop museum. Fuller has served as president and full-time director ever since. In return, Seattle awarded him its first "Man of the Year" civic-service award...
That night, as spring rain turns into flood. Lovey feasts on filched delicacies in Robber Jim's rose-filled shanty, feels the first tug of happiness again. Fleeing the flood. Old Repent and Jim take Lovey back to the hilltop cemetery, there assuage her grief with a solemn second funeral for granny in a borrowed tomb. By the time her frantic parents find her, sorrow has thawed Lovey's heart, and love for Jim has helped her to reach again for life. Recognizing that even her parents, though foolish, are fond, Lovey is ready to leave the graveyard...