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Tufts Alumni Association formed, 1860 In later years, gradautes of Tufts could look back with justifiable pride to the "Association of the Alumni of Tufts College" which was created in 1860. The pride is not only in the association's many accomplishments over the years, but in the organization's early existence and contribution to the history of Tufts. The Alumni of Williams College waited half a century to organize; the alumni of Yale over a century; and the alumni of Harvard over two centuries. The alumni of Tufts adopted a constitution when the college had graduated only five classes. Among its ranks, Tufts President Capen, who was selected as one of two vice presidents for the association when it was organized the very week he received his A.B. degree. |
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