{"id":31336,"date":"2017-05-25T18:16:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T01:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=31336"},"modified":"2018-10-03T01:50:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T08:50:28","slug":"tufts-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2017\/05\/25\/tufts-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Tufts University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A gorgeous campus.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>For an alphabetical index of the New England College series of pieces, click <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/indexes\/photographs\/new-england-colleges\/ target=_blank>here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1852 Tufts in Boston is a research university and home to 5,200 undergraduate and 5,500 postgraduate students.  Though in the city, it is self contained and absolutely beautifully maintained.  We visited it on a rainy spring day and were lucky to encounter another Northfield Mount Hermon student from my son&#8217;s school!<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Tufts_01.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"681\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Professors&#8217; Row across from the tennis courts, where senior faculty live.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Tufts_02.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"734\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Gifford House, the Dean&#8217;s home on Packard Avenue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Tufts_03.jpg\" width=\"681\" height=\"1014\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>The Olin Center for language studies.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Tufts_04.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"681\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>The Hillel Center is a focus of the campus&#8217;s active Jewish life.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Tufts_05.jpg\" width=\"681\" height=\"1014\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>The elephant mascot is everywhere.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Tufts_06.jpg\" width=\"681\" height=\"1014\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Caution!  Robin&#8217;s nest.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Tufts_07.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"681\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>The Goddard Chapel.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Tufts_08.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"681\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Inside the Goddard Chapel.  The light streaks testify to the rain on the lens!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Tufts_09.jpg\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>The Cannon.  Painted over nightly by students advertising their accomplishments!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Tufts_10.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"681\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Ballou Hall, dating from 1853, is the oldest building on campus and in perfect repair.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Tufts_11.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"681\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Donated by none other than PT Barnum, whose circus saw its final performance just this week, the elephant is Tufts&#8217; mascot.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Tufts_12.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"681\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>The magnificent Tisch library<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Tufts_14.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"681\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Hilary Hutchison sculpture in the Tisch Library dedicated to the students of Tufts.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Tufts_15.jpg\" width=\"681\" height=\"1014\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Winston in the Tisch Library, home to 2.7 million volumes.  The Tisch family are major Tufts benefactors.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Tufts has many distinguished alumni who include Pierre Omidyar of eBay fame, William Hurt, ambassador Bill Richardson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Eugene Fama, Jimmy Doolittle and distinguished actors David Costabile and Dan Hedaya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gorgeous campus. For an alphabetical index of the New England College series of pieces, click here. Founded in 1852 Tufts in Boston is a research university and home to 5,200 undergraduate and 5,500 postgraduate students. Though in the city, it is self contained and absolutely beautifully maintained. We visited it on a rainy spring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2017\/05\/25\/tufts-university\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tufts University<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colleges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31336"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32976,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31336\/revisions\/32976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}