Word: interpretations
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Garrison Prize, consisting of $100 and a silver medal, for "the best poem on a subject or subjects annually to be chosen and announced by a Committee of the Department of English," will this year be given for a poem suggested by the subject, National Defense. A competitor may interpret this subject as he pleases, for it is not intended to mean only defense of the United States. He is expected to choose his own title under the general topic. Each poem should not exceed 50 lines, should bear an assumed name, and should be accompanied by a sealed letter...
...star of the evening. Professor baker stated that the only way to build up a role is to study stage directions as well as lines. The actor must act emotionally as well as with his mind, must study every aspect of the character which he is to interpret. He also emphasized the need of a warm, colored voice upon the stage, the lack of which would destroy all the effects of an otherwise well-created character...
...against hasty action, and advised sane consideration of the issues of the problem such as the actual need of volunteers and the advisability of taking untrained men for the tasks of soldiery from their work which will result in incommensurable good to the state. What we may now hastily interpret as patriotism may only be an artificial excitement and a bubbling over of youth's strong and ever present love of adventure for such sentiment, Dean Briggs quoted as a remedy Mr. Gilbert's lines in "Iolanthe": "On fire that glows with heat intense, I turn the hose of common...
...humanist, note the clouded brow of the gentleman from New York and interpret it as an element New York and interpret it as an innate of Quakerism in your ancestry, smile and plagiarize the subtle wit of the baseball expert. And when your neighbor refuses to be interested in the popular movement, be certain that he must have a species of baseball aphasia...
...abound in most literature. Thus it becomes necessary to study the tendencies of different literary schools, and also comparative literature, in order to discount these qualities and reach beneath them the true, naturally distinctive characteristics of the times. There is a great need of men who are able to interpret literature in this way, both from the aesthetic and historical standpoints...