Introducing the Class of 2014
September 01, 2010
September 01, 2010
SOMERVILLE, Mass., Sept. 1 -- Tufts University issued the following news release:
"Let your life speak," we told the 15,432 applicants to our Class of 2014. And they did.
A Southern poet set the standard. "I am the whimsy of cotton candy stranded in the steamy burrows of West Tennessee," she said. Sometimes a few words captured a key idea about identity: "I'm a bit Goth,""I'm a gay Socialist,""I'm a failed environmentalis . . .
"Let your life speak," we told the 15,432 applicants to our Class of 2014. And they did.
A Southern poet set the standard. "I am the whimsy of cotton candy stranded in the steamy burrows of West Tennessee," she said. Sometimes a few words captured a key idea about identity: "I'm a bit Goth,""I'm a gay Socialist,""I'm a failed environmentalis . . .