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Everybody is thinking about bailouts this week, but at least we don't have to bail out Jumbo's boat. ![[Jumbo on a boat]](http://repository01.lib.tufts.edu:8080/fedora/get/tufts:MS002.001.013.00001.00005/bdef:TuftsImage/getMediumRes)
Walter B. Wriston was a banker and former chairman of Citicorp. An expert on commercial banking, Mr. Wriston wrote and spoke widely on topics relating to finance, banking, technology, and international business. In the Tufts Walter B. Wriston Collection, we have a number of Mr. Wriston's papers and speeches in which he discusses market failures, bailouts, and monetary crises. Perhaps there's something applicable to the current crisis in the 1980 "If You Ask Me: a Global Banker Reflects on Our Times" or the 1995 A Failure of Management"! Maybe our congresspeople can learn from history with the documents we are making available.
This year's theme for National Archives Month is Celebrating the American Record, and DCA has a partnership with the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) that will allow you to get up close and personal with some of the earliest evidence of American democracy. A New Nation Votes is a searchable collection of election returns from 1787-1825. The data represents the life work of AAS employee Philip Lampi.  For over forty years Phil traveled the eastern and central US collecting election returns, and now AAS and DCA have mounted it online for you with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. This ground-breaking data can be accessed through multiple portals. There is the A New Nation Votes Webportal, and the Tufts Digital Library also provides a searchable interface. Plus, there is blog specifically following the progress of the data entry where you can find entertaining and surprising stories of just how uncivil American politics has always been.
Were you impressed by last night's presidential debate? Did you think that the candidates finally got down to answering some tough, relevant questions? Or perhaps you think you are be a better debater then either of this year's presidential candidates! Maybe you are right, especially if you are a member of the debate society.
Tufts has a long history of fostering debate teams, such as the one pictured in this photo dating from 1908.
Debate teams from Tufts have also had a lot of success in formal debating contests. Here in the archives we even have a first place trophy from a varsity debate that took place in 1970! You can also check out other images of Tufts debating teams in the Tufts Digital Library.
Tufts students with Halloween jack-o'-lanterns, circa 1990
I knew we had an eclectic collection, but searching for Halloweeny materials in the Tufts Digital Library showed me just how eclectic. For example, Walks in London, vol. 1 is a text in Tufts' Edwin C. Bolles collection on the history of London, and chapter 9, "In the Heart of the City" describes the Church of All Hallows, baptismal site of John Milton.
20th-century poet and Tufts English professor John Holmes reminisces in his poem "My old schools" about seeing his wife "waiting at that bus-stop / For me one rainy Halloween".
And of course, Tufts students have their own say about Halloween, as in this 1996 Halloween edition of the Tufts Daily that complains about the inadequate spookiness of Spooky World. Tufts students have Halloween traditions, as well; the Concise Encyclopedia of Tufts History lets us know that the Tufts Mountain Club puts pumpkins on top of Goddard Chapel every Halloween.
(If you aren't interested in Halloween, just wait a few more days and it will be time for Guy Fawkes Day and the commemoration of the gunpowder plot!)
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