and Jumbo pride is far-reaching at Tufts. Both athletes and non-athletes at the University exhibit pride in their school's mascot and incorporate Jumbo into their own identities. Jumbo is as important ...

Some jumbo-sized changes are in store at Tufts University, as the Medford campus prepares to unveil its long awaited mascot — an 11-foot-by-18-foot bronze elephant sculpture. Workers lifted the ...

But at Tufts University, the mascot is much more specific — and historic. Friday, the Tufts community gathered to unveil a huge new statue of their unique mascot. If I asked you what the word "jumbo" ...

When Dick Reynolds contemplated a six-figure gift to Tufts University ... foot bronze statue of the school mascot, P.T. Barnum’s storied elephant named Jumbo.

“While were taking our daughter on college tours this summer,” said Mary Gilly, “we learned that the mascot ... Tufts website notes that Jumbo’s status was threatened in 1949 by the ...

Tufts University has a New England campus that ... or in service within six months after graduation. The Tufts mascot, Jumbo the elephant, was named after a circus animal Jumbo who died after ...

Yet that's exactly what's happening at Tufts University, where Jumbo the elephant is the university’s mascot. Tufts has commissioned Steve Whyte, an artist based in Carmel, Calif., to sculpt a ...

For instance, Tufts mascot Jumbo is named for a circus elephant donated by former university trustee P.T. Barnum. Barnum donated the real Jumbo’s taxidermied hide to Tufts after the elephant’s ...

It is reading season at the Tufts University admissions office ... While elephants are a common theme in the videos — Jumbo the elephant is Tufts’s mascot — only Michael Klinker went ...

During the ceremony, Kumar was presented with three symbolic items: the university ... Tufts. Daniels compared Kumar’s “noble attributes” to those of Tufts’ beloved elephant mascot, Jumbo.