Word: interpretations
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have chosen you to interpret for us to Harvard University our ideals of American harmony, our fervent adherence to cause of right, which the American of today is endeavoring to infuse into international order, and our boundless admiration for the moral grandeur of the United States, which assures the coming of peace among nations...
...give the message that international law is not of the past, and to interpret to no small degree the present policies of belligerent and neutral states, is in large measure the aim of the courses given in international law this year. One short hour's talk from a specialist would probably convince the most aseptically of students of the folly of his thoughts. But should words fall; let him elect one of these courses and speedily discover that he was dealing with a very lively corpse indeed...
...CRIMSON'S volume for the collegiate year demands a short word of explanation. In its editorial columns throughout the year a wider range of topics has received attention than has been the custom of past years. In spite of such range the constant policy has been to interpret events from the view of the college man, and if not to interpret to discuss, and if not to discuss to question...
...liked most of all the reception which I gave to the students of Harvard the other afternoon." At that time Madame Bernhardt was greeted by Professor. Louis Al lard, who expressed the University's appreciation of her visit to this country at so critical a period to interpret the French...
...second modern opportunity, in that he has embodied, perhaps better than any other, the meaning of Hellenic culture for his own time. The mediaeval period, the Renaissance, the seventeenth century, each understood antiquity differently and found in it a different kind of inspiration. It remains for us to interpret the Classics to our contemporaries in contemporary terms, to demonstrate their perennial vitality by showing their relation to modern problems and fashions. We may not be willing, like the English scholar, to reduce the Greek religion to a set of anthropological phenomena, but we may seek to illuminate such modern governmental...