<p>NY Times obit pays tribute to Nils Wessell who spearheaded the change from Tufts College to Tufts University: </p>
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On the day he was installed as president, Dec. 9, 1953, he called for Tufts to become a university ?in name as well as in fact.? In 1955, the Massachusetts Board of Corporations changed Tufts?s status.</p>
<p>?It was more than a name change,? Tufts?s current president, Lawrence S. Bacow, said in an interview Wednesday. ?It was a commitment to becoming a true research university. That meant developing graduate programs in the colleges of arts, sciences, engineering.?</p>
<p>During Dr. Wessell?s presidency, biology and chemistry laboratories, an engineering building, new dormitories and the Wessell Library were built, and the Lincoln Filene Center for Public Service and the Experimental College were opened...
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