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...male undergraduate was assaulted on May 10 while he was walking down Plympton Street, according to Cambridge Police Department spokesman James DeFrancesco. According to the Harvard University Police Department log, at around 2:30 a.m., the student was walking on Plympton Street when a car beeped at him. “The individual reported that two individuals exited the vehicle and assaulted the individual,” the police log stated. “A third individual exited the vehicle and attempted to break up the fight. The individuals then left the area.” The male student...
...then, I take a closer look at the mirror, go back to my closet for a top I bought at Saks, and realize: My goodness! These pants look great with my navy half-zip pullover!Getting my books together, I head to Lamont. And on my way up Plympton Street, as I catch a friend stealing a glance at my pants, I know it’s not because the look I’ve put together is not working, or that it isn’t me.And I know this because she tells me: “I love...
...agree with your opposition to renaming Plympton Street in honor of David Halberstam ‘55 (“A Road by Any Other Name,” editorial, April 16), despite the fact that David and I were close personal friends in Dunster House and on The Crimson, and that he was a magnificent reporter whose memory deserves to be honored...
...growth and change, the University has tried to keep some of its colonial heritage intact, in line with its pride in being America’s first college, “first flower of the wilderness”. Street names such as Dunster, Holyoke, Trowbridge, Brattle, and Plympton play as much a role in this effort as the cobblestones on the sidewalks, the names and simplicity of the buildings in the Yard, and the architecture of the Houses on the river. As the Crimson noted in a recent article, Harvard has been more successful than other large universities in preserving...
True, Halberstam is not the most mellifluous street name, though it’s no Cowperthwaite. He is not even the best journalist to have emerged from 14 Plympton in 1955. (That would be J. Anthony Lukas ’55, also a Pulitzer Prize winner). But by all accounts, Halberstam had an ego fit for a road sign, which is really the brilliance of the proposal. Crimson reporters have long dreamed of adding their names to the newspaper’s hallowed hallway of Pulitzers. But the whole street? Halberstam will have raised the stakes considerably...