Tufts University

Tufts University is a research university located on three campuses in Massachusetts USA and one campus in France.http://www.linkedin.com/companies/tufts-university The university is composed of a school of Arts and Sciences, a school of Engineering, and several graduate and professional schools, which include the well-rated School of Medicine and Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. The university's art collection includes works by Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso. Tufts University alumni include Golden Globe winner Peter Gallagher, ebay founder Pierre Omidyar, and musicians Peter Gallagher and Adam Gardner.http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/medford-ma/tufts-university-2219

First-year and second-year students of Tufts University are obligated to reside in university-owned dormitories, apartments, suites and houses on campus. Approximately 40 percent of Tufts University students study abroad. The Scuba Club, the Poker Society and the Beelzebubs are among the student groups in the university. About 15 percent of Tufts students join fraternities or sororities. Jumbo the elephant, the official mascot of Tufts University, is the only school mascot found on Webster's Dictionary.http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/medford-ma/tufts-university-2219

Around the mid 1800s, Charles Tufts, a businessman in Boston, donated 20 acres of land, worth $20,000, to the Universalist Church, which had sought to establish a college in New England. Legend has it that when asked what he would do with the hilly land, Tufts responded, "I will put a light on it."http://www.tufts.edu/home/get_to_know_tufts/history/ Although founded on Universalist principles, Tufts University gradually became secular after it embraced coeducation at the turn of the 19th century.http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/spring2002/univ.html