To the Editors: With regard to Jessica Riskin’s enlightening piece, “A Poisonous Legacy” [NYR, June 22], and in particular the egregious David Starr Jordan, the founding president of Stanford University: Jordan previously served as the seventh president of Indiana University, from 1884 to 1891. In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/09/21/name-dropping/