Word: interpret
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Kenneth Stampp, a skillful and pungent professor of history at the University of California, comes at the end of a line of revisionist scholars who have discredited Dunning's interpretation. Their origins go back to the 1930's, when immigrants and minority groups were at last gaining access to political power, and when the Supreme Court was beginning to interpret the 14th amendment as a defense of civil rather than economic liberties. They have re-examined the conventional assumptions about Reconstruction, and have tried to resurrect the Radical Republicans as visionaries and idealists who believed in the potentialities...
Courses in the history of religion and the Bible, however, are inappropriate in the public schools, Ulich said. High school students, "to whom nothing is as attractive as negative rationality," would react skeptically to such courses and "be likely to interpret religion merely as human invention...
...graduating government majors who have not read Freud or Weber,"-- (whether or not it was meant as a criticism) gave factual evidence to my contention that the department was neglecting the approaches of political science making use of the insights of psychology and sociology. A reader would interpret the statement as a criticism only if he felt that such approaches were significant enough to merit attention in the Government Department...
Five department chairmen have already said they would interpret the requirement in such a way that their departments would not have to create any new General Education courses...
Francis M. Rogers, chairman of the Romance Languages Department, said that he was "very excited" by the program outlined by the Faculty. "We have contributed our share to Gen Ed over the years," he said, and intend to "interpret this requirement literally and more...