Uh oh: The president of the Harvard Crimson is opposed to renaming Plympton Street
By adamg - Fri, 04/11/2008 - 8:57am.
There's trouble in River City as the city proposes renaming tiny Plympton Street as Halberstam Street to honor the memory of the late journalist and Harvard alum. As the Crimson reports:
... [Crimson President Malcom A.] Glenn and current managing editor Paras D. Bhayani '09 recently wrote a letter to the City Council, asking that the council refrain from renaming the street. Glenn said that while he is in favor of honoring Halberstam, he and other past and present Crimson reporters are very attached to the 14 Plympton St. address.
In his letter, Glenn said he suggested adding "Halberstam" as an honorary, but not official, part of the street name. ...
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The David Halberstam Professor of English Chair
Halberstam was an excellent writer.
There are many way to honor such a man, renaming a street is a relatively inexpensive one and as you see, there are objections.
Looks like it time to raise $1,000,000 and name a professorship after him.
Um, not quite
It takes at least $1.5M to endow a professorship these days.
but less than that to get it started
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