Word: agassizã
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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...
Meyer contended that because naming records for the school do not exist, the elementary school could have been named for Louis Agassiz??s wife, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, a founder of Radcliffe and a local educator...
Though many institutions in Cambridge and Harvard also bear the Agassiz name, neither Mayor Sullivan nor Counter had heard of any motion to further expunge Agassiz??s name...