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The official seal of Tufts College was created on 17 July 1857, by vote of the Board of Trustees. The design they adopted showed a dove with olive branch and an open Bible as symbols. "Pax et Lux," or Peace and Light, was chosen as the aphorism, with the words "Sigillum Collegii Tuftensis" meaning seal of Tufts College. The original design showed the dove of peace with the olive branch in its beak flying downward toward an open Bible resting on a rocky eminence, like a hill. The sun's rays stream through clouds in the background.
In 1966, an updated design of the traditional seal was adopted. The book featured is not ecclesiastical, and the rocky eminence was dropped altogether. The words circling the seal were updated to reflect the expanded scope of the University with the words Sigillum Universitatis Tuftensis used to replace the former designation of Collegii.
In 2006 the seal was updated yet again as part of a university-wide visual identity campaign. The old seal did not reproduce well at low resolutions. The design was simplified; the number of leaves on the olive branch and feathers in the wings were both reduced. The seal also began to be used on non-official documents in conjunction with the wordmark, but sans Latin text.
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