Tufts University

There is a replica of a U.S.S. Constitution cannon on the Tufts campus. It is said it points at Harvard, but no one really knows where it points.

If you can get a penny to land on the nose of the Jumbo statue, you're supposed to have good luck on your finals.

These steps are behind the Hillel Center and lead down to Boston Avenue. They say that the design of these steps was given to an engineering student as his final project. He was supposed to design them so that they would be easier for women to run up than men if they were being chased, and the steps were designed to be the exact stride of a woman, calculated from a number of biological factors. However, an empirical study will show that men can run up these steps twice as fast as women. The stride length is difficult for women, but men can just jump two steps at a time.

In the first 30 years of Tufts's existence, the graduating class was allowed to pick their own school colors, and every year they changed. After 30 years, the administration decided it was time to settle on one set of colors. When the administration told the senior class that they would pick the school's colors for eternity, they didn't believe them, and thought it was a joke. That class picked the worst color combination they could come up with: baby blue and dark brown. Those remain Tufts’ colors today. Tufts says the school colors represent earth and sky.

This is a unique species of bug that supposedly only inhabits Wren Hall. No one has seen much of them lately, and they may have been exterminated, or at least gone into hiding.