Hurlbut and Pennypacker?

gadad
Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:48:48 +0000

Does you suppose all the Harvard freshman dorms are named after real people, or did some of them get named by the President and Fellows after a pub crawl? Pennypacker? Wigglesworth? Hurlbut and Hollis? (Similar concepts if you say them really fast.) If there really were people with names like these, is it plausible that they could have nonetheless become successful enough to have Harvard buildings named for themselves?