Word: interpretative
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...energetic little wig-wagger is the eyes of the score-board, and the spectator who can interpret his contortions can follow the game as readily as if he were on the sidelines...
Good student guides and plenty of them are needed. The college has not lacked them in the past and should not now, especially when the rate of pay has been raised. A man who acts as guide assumes a responsibility. He should be able to interpret Harvard life to a stranger--not only by telling about the ages and uses of the buildings, but by giving him first-hand the part of the college life which can't be put into books. Being a Harvard student is not the only necessary qualification. A guide not only needs to learn "outside...
...course it is true that great actions are not accomplished by a middle course. But the function of a periodical is not acts, but an intelligent discussion of acts. It must interpret the news, and to do so adequately it should not be swayed by passion. The present attitude of the "New Republic" is like that of the little boy who refuses to play because he has not received his full share of the pie, and is correspondingly useless. An attitude like that of "Harvey's Weekly", on the other hand, which indiscriminately damns all acts of President Wilson just...
...right to regulate immigration must continue to be a right that each nation shall be free to interpret for itself...
Whatever the source of the ideals before a nation it is important to know that the men who form or interpret them are the leaders of its people. Their responsibility is so enormous that a false ideal set up by them may carry the work of a whole generation to no advance. The opportunity of a university lies in the training of these men. If the university insists upon interesting itself primarily with the culture of the past, a culture which was as new in its day as the present culture which the university ignores is today, then men will...