Reminds somewhat, of the renaming of St. Petersburg and Volograd. I always wonder at the persistence of culture. Wild men come to power and think they can run roughshod over ancient cultures and remake the world in their image.
Reminds somewhat, of the renaming of St. Petersburg and Volograd. I always wonder at the persistence of culture. Wild men come to power and think they can run roughshod over ancient cultures and remake the world in their image.
St Petersburg was re-named and then re-re-named. Maybe one should expect Bancroft Library to regain its name some 75 years from now. All in all, as noted in several others comments, a momentous exercise in navel-gazing on the part of an academic body that apparently does not have more serious occupations to attend.
Reminds me of a joke in Reader's Digest, remembered from high school days, which went:
USSR Government official: Where were you born?
Citizen: Saint Petersburg.
U: Where were you educated?
C: Petrograd.
U: Where do you live now?
C: Leningrad.
U: Where do you wish to live?
C: Saint Petersburg
That was around 1958, and I thought it amusing at the time. I now hope the Citizen was still living and enjoying life on the 51st anniversary of Kristallnacht in November 1989.
Reminds somewhat, of the renaming of St. Petersburg and Volograd. I always wonder at the persistence of culture. Wild men come to power and think they can run roughshod over ancient cultures and remake the world in their image.
St Petersburg was re-named and then re-re-named. Maybe one should expect Bancroft Library to regain its name some 75 years from now. All in all, as noted in several others comments, a momentous exercise in navel-gazing on the part of an academic body that apparently does not have more serious occupations to attend.
Reminds me of a joke in Reader's Digest, remembered from high school days, which went:
USSR Government official: Where were you born?
Citizen: Saint Petersburg.
U: Where were you educated?
C: Petrograd.
U: Where do you live now?
C: Leningrad.
U: Where do you wish to live?
C: Saint Petersburg
That was around 1958, and I thought it amusing at the time. I now hope the Citizen was still living and enjoying life on the 51st anniversary of Kristallnacht in November 1989.