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Title: The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886.
The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886.

Author: Various

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THE

NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE

AND

BAY STATE MONTHLY.

OLD SERIES FEBRUARY, 1886. NEW SERIES
VOL. IV. NO. 2. VOL. I. NO. 2.

Copyright, 1886, by Bay State Monthly Company. All rights reserved.

Transcriber's Note: Minor typos have been corrected and footnotes moved
to the end of the article.

TUFTS COLLEGE.

BY REV. E. H. CAPEN, D.D.

[Illustration]

Tufts College is situated on the most beautiful and commanding eminence
in the southeasterly part of Middlesex county, within the town of
Medford and on the borders of Somerville. This eminence was formerly
called Walnut Hill, on account, it is said, of the heavy growth of
hickory timber with which it was covered at the time of the settlement
of the colony, but is now called College Hill, on account of the
institution which crowns it. The land on which the College is built is a
part of the farm which the late Charles Tufts received by way of
inheritance; and, when asked by his relatives what he would do with the
bleak hill over in Medford, he replied, "I will put a light on it." The
tract of land originally given by Mr. Tufts consisted of twenty acres.
Subsequently he gave his pledge to add other valuable tracts adjoining.
This pledge has been fulfilled, so that the plot of ground, belonging to
the College, given by Mr. Tufts, embraces upwards of one hundred acres.
The late Deacon Timothy Cotting, of Medford, also gave to the College at
his decease, a piece of land lying near the ins