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And so has an elephant and so has a whale,

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: The Decline of the Genteel Beard | 10/13/1956 | See Source »

I'd say to the elephant 'This is my one.'

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: The Decline of the Genteel Beard | 10/13/1956 | See Source »

Another outstanding first contributor to the new college was the famed circus owner, P.T. Barnum. In 1882 Barnum gave Tufts a museum and from time to time provided it with animal skins to be stuffed for exhibit. Then in 1885 Barnum's most colossal specimen and the world's largest...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Tufts: A Democracy on the Hilltop | 10/6/1956 | See Source »

Of course, getting Jumbo onto the Tufts campus and into the Barnum Museum caused no little stir. The building's stone steps had to be removed and its floor lowered three times before Jumbo gained his final resting place in 1890. By that time the huge elephant had officially become...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Tufts: A Democracy on the Hilltop | 10/6/1956 | See Source »

The slump in farm-equipment sales has brought J. I. Case Co. some elephant-sized troubles. In its last nine-month fiscal period alone it lost a mountainous $4,403,000. As a way out of its troubles, the elephant last week enlisted the help of a mighty mouse: Case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Help from a Mouse | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

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