Words matter, and our choice of words to describe others goes a long way to communicating what we think of them. For example, consider the minor controversy after Harvard Stadium's opening. The stadium scoreboards were more advanced than most. One sat atop the stands at the closed end of the stadium, and the other stood behind the goal posts at the stadium's open end.
Harvard Stadium (RPPC, Personal collection)
Like all good scoreboards, Harvard's showed the number of points earned by Harvard and ...
Published on June 12, 2023 16:00