The University of Florida’s mascot, the gator, is named Albert. The University of Texas’s longhorn mascot is named Bevo. Even Manhattan Area Technical College’s mascot (a bison) has a name — she’s Brandi, thank you very much. So it was weird that Johns Hopkins’s blue jay mascot went for nearly a century without a name. […]
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