...ld ballads as they are sung in the Southern mountains by the descendants of the English, Scotch and Irish who settled there. Tufts College has been another strong intellectual force in Medford. Charles Tufts of Somerville, who inherited Walnut Hill, then a barren tract, said he meant some day to set a light on it. His words have proved true, for the college set on the hill he gave for that purpose, has b...