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Sports fans like to refer to their teams in the first person. After a big victory, we exclaim, “We destroyed them.” Casual observers may not understand, but it makes sense to us die-hards. Forget even the crowd’s massive impact on each game; professional teams simply could not exist without the financial support of their fans...
...using first-person pronouns, we are accepting a responsibility as well. When we sit in the stands, we represent our team. When we show up at Harvard Stadium, Lavietes Pavilion, or Ohiri Field, we represent the institution of Harvard...
After the arrival of the first Macintosh computers, written notices were suddenly replaced with word-processed posters as student groups gained access to desktop publishing. In his annual report to the Board of Overseers in 1985, then-University President Derek C. Bok asked faculty to embrace the potential of computing technology to revolutionize University education by limiting “the passive experience of listening to lectures and reading texts...
Joseph A. Konstan ’87, former President of the Harvard Computer Society, came to the University the first year computer science was a formal concentration in 1984. Konstan, now a computer science professor at the University of Minnesota, said that enrollment in computer science classes at the introductory level was very high...
...recent lecturer at the Law School, Lee witnessed first hand how former Dean Elena Kagan improved student life by renovating Harkness Commons to make it more amenable to students...