Word: interpretation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sculptor Davidson put on the suits, struck attitudes in which he had seen the Senator, observed the folds of the fabric and recalled details. In the statue the modern clothing never obtrudes but serves to interpret the figure...
...article, "Harvard: Fair and Cooler", in the latest Saturday Evening Post, Mr. Kenneth L. Roberts bites the hand that fed him, apologetically but severely. His caricature of the Harvard he saw and the Harvard men who tried to interpret Harvard for him is a diabolically clever masterpiece. He takes a couple of thousand words to prove that Harvard men are egocentric asses trying to appear indifferent when they are not, starving in Harvard Square hashhouses, and lying prostrate in idolatrous worship of the Great God Final Club. He takes a concluding paragraph to show that Harvard men are studious...
...tendency to interpret as prophecies for the future many portions of our report which were in fact mere statements of past happenings...
...basis of grades listed at the Dean's office. Men who are really interested in their studies and realize the true value of academic attainments will form the most valuable nucleus for the occupants of the "House". I do not mean merely grinds. It is difficult to interpret but there is a definite criterion which may be used to judge applicants on the basis of true scholarly mindedness...
...That task is to give the best within me to interpret the common sense and the ideals of the American people...