8 College Man in Short Trousers

With my high school days over, my father had decided to send me to Tufts College rather than to risk the strain of the Harvard entrance examinations and the inordinate publicity which could have been caused by sending an eleven-year-old boy to Harvard. Tufts was an excellent small college, so near to Harvard as to be overshadowed by it in the public eye. By virtue of that very fact, it shared in the intellectual advantages of the Boston metropolis. It was possible for us to live near Tufts on Medford Hillside, and for Father to take the trolley from there every day to his Harvard work.