The building caught fire in 1975, and Jumbo burned up with it. There’s a jar of Jumbo’s ashes in the athletic director’s office. And there was a statue on campus when I was a student there that ...

In 1985, 100 years after Jumbo’s tragic death, this life-size concrete statue was installed by the city of St. Thomas in commemoration of the great elephant, arguably the most renowned circus ...

The modest elephant, much smaller than the first, 11-foot-tall Jumbo, has become an important part of Tufts' tradition. "This is not any elephant, it's a particular elephant," Cuttino said. "Jumbo II ...

In 1993, alumni donated the statue of an Asian elephant, which came from an amusement park, to commemorate Jumbo – but it's never been quite the same as having a lifesize African elephant on the ...

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.

Jumbo, a famous elephant that belonged to showman P.T. Barnum, at the London Zoo. (London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Perspective by Luke Fannin Americans have long been ...