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Re:Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke by anonAndOn on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @03:04PM (#24485378)
John Harvard and Elihu Yale seemed to have avoided this fate. And Leland Stanford had the same name as his father, so maybe founding a university is the way to go here?
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Re:Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke by M277 on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @03:21PM (#24485590)
Most people just gloss over the names from experience, without caring much about who it was named after / the origin.
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Re:Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke by anonAndOn on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @03:32PM (#24485730)
I'm sure every Eli that's ever graduated from Yale in the last 300 years knows why they're called Elis.
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Re:Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke by cortesoft on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @04:00PM (#24486054)
It all depends on how many years have passed.
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