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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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Most people just gloss over the names from experience, without caring much about who it was named after / the origin.

I'm sure every Eli that's ever graduated from Yale in the last 300 years knows why they're called Elis.

It all depends on how many years have passed.

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