Word: agassizã
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...Agassiz??s legacy in education shows one of hate, represented by his attempts to keep Jewish and Irish people out of Harvard at all costs,” Vogel said yesterday. “He might find Agassiz??s diversity detestable...
Yesterday, one day after Gould’s death, several speakers invoked Gould’s name to make their points for or against removing Agassiz??s name from the school. Gould was Harvard’s most famed evolutionary biologist, known for bringing science to the masses through his prolific writings and for stirring controversy with his theories and his outspoken style...
Counter added that Baldwin was worthy of commemoration in the school’s name “because she was a great Cambridge educator,” and refuted the argument some put forward that Agassiz??s racist thinking was in keeping with his times...
...Cambridge resident Steven J. Weissburg presented the school committee with copies of a letter purportedly from Gould, in which the scientist advocated the name “Baldwin-Agassiz?? for the school...
...would be extremely unhappy to see Agassiz??s name dropped, especially based on a mis-reading of my own essays about him and his racial views,” the letter said to be from Gould read. “Agassiz??s racial views were pretty damned awful, but if we start instituting pogroms about the past, when will it stop...