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However it is still sugarcoating history, hiding the bad people, and making it seem like the good people were always appreciated.

Having a college named after you is much more likely to cause people to assume you were a great person unless they perform more detailed research.



Having a college named after you is much more likely to cause people to assume you were a great person unless they perform more detailed research.

This is the reason Charles Koch spent $10M to name George Mason's law school after a recently deceased conservative Supreme Court justice.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/03/3...


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