Although Jumbo the elephant may not be as ferocious or threatening as other school mascots, Jumbo is indeed unique, and Jumbo pride is far-reaching at Tufts. Both athletes and non-athletes at 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" ...

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.

Funny how items in this column connect. After I wrote about the famously nicknamed UC Irvine Anteaters, a professor there -- obviously willing for her school to share the glory -- e-mailed me ...

Tufts University has a New England campus that is located in the cities of Medford ... The Tufts mascot, Jumbo the elephant, was named after a circus animal Jumbo who died after being hit by a ...

Dick Reynolds’ six-figure gift to Tufts will pay for a new statue of Jumbo. But rebuilding the school’s beloved P.T. Barnum stuffed elephant has been slow-going.

Donors are funding the sculpture of Jumbo, a 5,000 pound elephant, to be installed on the Medford campus. The Business Journals . Select a City.

A decades-old Tufts University tradition of students painting messages of encouragement, resistance, love and celebration on a historic cannon located on campus just got a refresh. Thousands of ...

While elephants are a common theme in the videos — Jumbo the elephant is Tufts’s mascot — only Michael Klinker went so far as to build a small remote-control blue-elephant helicopter that ...

Daniels compared Kumar’s “noble attributes” to those of Tufts’ beloved elephant mascot, Jumbo. “You have a capacity to conjure literary, historical, and philosophical references.

It seemed like all of the students knew the story and were proud to be Jumbos, so I was excited and proud to be one too." Collectively identifying Jumbo as the University's mascot is an immediate and ...