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Somerville and New England History Collection
 
At left is a picture of Tufts University as it looked in 1856.
The pictured building (known simply as "College Hall")
originally housed classrooms, student quarters, staff and faculty
offices, the library, laboratories and a chapel. In 1851 Somerville
businessman Charles Tufts offered part of his property on the
Somerville-Medford line to the Unitarian Universalist Church
on the condition that it be used to establish a college. In
1856 Tufts had approximately fifty students and only one course
of study, a bachelor of arts degree consisting largely of classes
in Latin, Greek, history and rhetoric. Now known as Ballou Hall
(after Hosea Ballou, Tuft's first president) the pictured building
houses university administration.
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