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The twenty-acre plot, given to the Universalist church on the condition that it be used for a college, was valued at $20,000 and located on one of the highest hills in the Boston area, Walnut Hill. In 1852, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts chartered Tufts College, noting the college should promote 'virtue and piety and learning in such of the languages and liberal and useful arts as shall be recommended.' Charles Tufts was the donor of the land the university now occupies on the Medford-Somerville line. 3.1 Both undergraduate and graduate students.

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The French-American nutritionist Jean Mayer became president of Tufts in the late 1970s and, through a series of mergers with other institutions, transformed the school into an internationally renowned research university. Charles Tufts donated the land for the campus on Walnut Hill, the highest point in Medford, saying that he wanted to set a 'light on the hill.' The name was changed to Tufts University in 1954, although the corporate name remains 'the Trustees of Tufts College.' After more than a century, Tufts was a small New England liberal arts college. In 1852, Tufts College was founded by Christian Universalists who worked for years to open a non-sectarian institution of higher learning. Among its schools is the United States' oldest graduate school of international relations, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. The university emphasizes active citizenship and public service in all of its disciplines more than any peer school and is well known for its internationalism and study abroad programs. The university is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts. Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/ Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. Tufts Universityīrown Template:Colorbox and Blue Template:Colorbox For people named Tufts, see Tufts (surname).

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