Campus Fixtures: The Gravity Stone

Campus Fixtures: The Gravity Stone
Perhaps you've seen it while walking around campus: what looks like a gravestone in the ground near the entrance to the library roof. Perhaps you've even stopped to read its etchings:
"This monument has been erected by the Gravity Research Foundation, Roger W. Babson Founder. It is to remind students of the blessings forthcoming when a semi-insulator is discovered in order to harness gravity as a free power and reduce airplane accidents."
The gravity stone, as most call it, is a testament to our school's funniest cash swindle. The Gravity Research Foundation was established in 1948 by Roger Babson, businessman and founder of Babson College. Author of Gravity - Our Enemy Number One, Babson sought to free mankind from the shackles of gravity. When he approached Tufts with money to finance research in the field of anti-gravity, the school took the money, put up the stone and never conducted any anti-gravity research. Take the money and run. Smooth.
                                                                                                                                                                                At least, this was how the story was told to us by a few professors... Believe it? Corrections?

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