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What Dewey call this seminar room at HLS now? The Stephen Dicarmine Tanning Salon? Your suggestions for renaming this room are welcome in the comments.
Here’s an interesting question: Could this actually benefit Harvard Law School by allowing for double dipping? Dewey is on the road to non-existence, so presumably it no longer needs to have its name on this seminar room, even it already forked over the cash. Can HLS turn around and sell the naming rights to another firm or donor?
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Of course, some donors might be spooked by the Dewey connection. We’ve previously wondered whether real estate associated with D&L might be haunted.
But if HLS offered a nice discount — say, being able to endow a seminar room for half the normal cost — it might get some takers. Maybe it should reach out to the benefactor of the Falik Men’s Room?
P.S. To those of you who object to our Dewey puns, please note the restraint that we exercised in this post. For example, we did not include a Dewey pun in the headline, as we traditionally do. But we couldn’t resist including other puns in the story itself.
Dewey appreciate wordplay? Guilty as charged.
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