At my tour at Brown, my tour guide said an interesting story about the name, but I couldn't find anything online about it. She said that Rockefeller donated money for a library to be built and named after him. Students abbreviated the long name "The John D Rockefeller Memorial Library" to "the rock". Rockefeller heard about it and said students have to call it by the full name. So students started calling it "the john" and the foundation said "the rock" is ok. Is this true??
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