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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. [25] In 1955, continued expansion was reflected in the change of the school's name to Tufts University, [ 26 ] though the corporate name remains as 'Trustees of Tufts College'.
Tufts College, c. 1854. In the 1840s, the Universalist church wanted to open a college in New England due to the majority of members being barred from expensive colleges. In the spring of 1847, Rev. Thomas J. Sawyer of New York opened a correspondence with Rev. Hosea Ballou of Medford and Rev. Thomas Whittemore of Cambridgeport who was also the editor of Trumpet and Universalist Magazine.
Commissioner v. Tufts, 461 U.S. 300 (1983), was a unanimous decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that when a taxpayer sells or disposes of property encumbered by a nonrecourse obligation exceeding the fair market value of the property sold, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue may require him to include in the “amount realized” the outstanding amount of the obligation ...
Lawrence Seldon Bacow (/ ˈbækaʊ /; born August 24, 1951) is an American economist and retired university administrator. Bacow served as the 12th president of Tufts University from 2001 to 2011 and as the 29th president of Harvard University from 2018 to 2023. [1] Before that, he was the Hauser leader-in-residence at the Center for Public ...
Founded. February 25, 1980. (1980-02-25) Headquarters. 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, Massachusetts 02155. Website. tuftsdaily.com. The Tufts Daily, known on campus as the Daily, is the student newspaper of record at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. The paper covers news, arts and sports both on campus and in the greater Boston area and ...
Tufts University, from which the term Tufts syndrome derives, has been most often accused of yield protection. [1]Yield protection is a verified admissions practice in which an academic institution rejects or delays the acceptance of highly qualified students on the grounds that such students are likely to be accepted by, and then enroll in, more selective institutions.
The Tufts Jumbos football program represents Tufts University in the sport of American football. The team competes in Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). [3] The team's head coach is Jay Civetti, who has led the Jumbos since 2011.
The Tufts football program is one of the oldest in the country. The 1,000th game in team history was played during the 2006 season. Historians point to a Tufts versus Harvard game in 1875 as the first game of college football using American football rules. [4] [5] The team plays at the Ellis Oval, located on the southwest corner of the campus.