Word: plympton
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...their first year, most Harvard students can quickly rattle off the streets which cross Massachusetts Avenue south of the yard. Dunster, Holyoke, Linden, Plympton, Bow. A recent proposal by the Cambridge City Council would add a new name to the list: Halberstam...
...proposed renaming of Plympton Street would honor the journalist David L. Halberstam ’55, who died last year. Halberstam, a former managing editor of The Crimson, is no small figure in history. He covered the Civil Rights movement for The New York Times and won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the early Vietnam War, and he wrote more than 20 books before he died in a car crash on the way to an interview almost a year ago. But changing the name of Plympton Street to honor this great man is neither fitting nor appropriate...
Though the name itself may not reference anyone significant from recent memory, like John F. Kennedy Street or even Dunster Street, Plympton has come to take on a meaning due to its association with what has happened there since 1875, when the street was first named. Located in the heart of the Harvard campus, the Harvard Book Store, The Harvard Crimson, The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, and five Houses (Adams, Quincy, Lowell, Leverett and Winthrop) touch the street. The name of the street, just like...
...addition, the affective attachment that residents and Crimson editors alike have developed to the name Plympton is itself significant. The president and managing editor of The Crimson have both gone on the record against the name change, and the sentimental fondness for Plympton that many other residents feel, while certainly not as significant as Halberstam’s legacy, should not be ignored...
Street name changes are rare in Cambridge, according to City Councillor Sam Seidel, who is also a member of the Government Rules and Operations Committee. Plympton Street, originally called Chestnut Street., was given its current moniker...