 The school's historic coat of arms is used on official documentation including degree certificates and transcripts and includes the motto – "rerum cognoscere causas", a line taken from Virgil’s "Georgics" meaning "to know the causes of things", together with the school's mascot – a beaver.Both these symbols, adopted in February 1922, continue to be held in high regard to this day with the beaver chosen because of its representation as "a hard working and industrious yet sociable animal", attributes that the founders hoped LSE students to both possess and aspire to.The school's weekly newspaper is still entitled "The Beaver", Rosebery residence hall's bar is called the Tipsy Beaver and LSE sports teams are known as the Beavers.