Regarding 'Princeton language style: Pequod' (Oct. 7): When James Robertson '91 chose the name "Pequod" for his little copy center on 6 Nassau St., the last thing on my former college roommate and ...
In “Myth of the Whale” (Oct. 31), you omitted the etymology of the ship’s name in Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick,” the Pequod. Melville derived the ship’s name from the Indian tribe, the Pequods or ...