elaboration on the first point—my initial arg is pretty weak. the more pressing concern is that i think names can sometimes be read as a casual endorsement, continuation of a legacy, or a reward for sponsorship (neither of which makes sense for us).
names attract more side-eyeing. Lowell house is constantly under fire because Abbott Lawrence Lowell was racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and xenophobic; Indigenous Peoples’ Day has been adopted as a rejection of Columbus; etc. i don’t want to deal w problems because Petrov was a USSR soldier. William James was also a progenitor of all modern psych and a Harvard prof, which doesn’t really parallel well w/ using Parfit in the name for us. Safer route is to not use names, when equally good non-proper nouns exist.
i’m more concerned w/ “georgian house” as a general term; it seems odd because it’s like calling a building “art deco house”.
elaboration on the first point—my initial arg is pretty weak. the more pressing concern is that i think names can sometimes be read as a casual endorsement, continuation of a legacy, or a reward for sponsorship (neither of which makes sense for us).
names attract more side-eyeing. Lowell house is constantly under fire because Abbott Lawrence Lowell was racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and xenophobic; Indigenous Peoples’ Day has been adopted as a rejection of Columbus; etc. i don’t want to deal w problems because Petrov was a USSR soldier. William James was also a progenitor of all modern psych and a Harvard prof, which doesn’t really parallel well w/ using Parfit in the name for us. Safer route is to not use names, when equally good non-proper nouns exist.
i’m more concerned w/ “georgian house” as a general term; it seems odd because it’s like calling a building “art deco house”.