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Originally Posted by AvengerRam
Yep. Named after the circus elephant because P.T. Barnum was on the Board of Trustees of the University back in the day. Jumbo's stuffed hide was displayed in Barnum Hall on the Tufts campus until the 1970s, when the building burned to the ground.
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Back in the 80's I lived very close to Tufts, in beautiful Medfa as it's called by the bostonians.