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Trivia: What’s the Secret Behind Robert J. Shillman's Statue?
Weekly Trivia
Quark
There is a statue of a cat and a man in front of Shillman Hall on Northeastern’s Boston campus. The man is Trustee Emeritus Robert J. Shillman. What is the cat’s name?
Yitz
Harry
Fenway
Answer
Legend has it that Shillman befriended Yitz, a neighborhood stray, while teaching physics at Technion — Israel Institute of Technology. There is an identical statue on the Technion campus.
There is a statue of a cat and a man in front of Shillman Hall on Northeastern’s Boston campus. The man is Trustee Emeritus Robert J. Shillman. What is the cat’s name?
Quark
Fenway
Harry
Yitz