Word: interpreted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...resolution. He said, among other things, that Professors Ames and White, of Harvard, had both put themselves on record as favoring the confinement of athletics to undergraduates; that Harvard would not accept the resolutions for selfish reasons, but that public sentiment would force her to it. The Captains could interpret the constitution in no other way than as allowing them the authority to act as they like...
...series for the rest of the year. These last five, moreover, seem to be of especial interest. Tonight Professor Goodwin, in having for his subject "Paul at Athens," will bring the thought of Greece into touch with the Christian gospel. Professor Palmer will apply the habit of philosophy to interpret the parables, and Professor Wright the instinct of the philologist to the speeches of Paul. It is difficult to see how our instructors could better accomplish true University work than by such means as these...
With the cuneiform inscriptions and the prophets Professor Lyon completed yesterday the course of public lectures. He said that the inscriptions interpret or illustrate every branch of Old Testament study, Genesis, the history, the poetry, the religion, and, to a special degree, the prophets. The Hebrew prophet is not, as the popular notion too often makes him, primarily a student of the distant future, whose chief function is predictive. On the contrary he is a reformer, a preacher of righteousness, a man of affairs, concerned with the present, and rarely, if ever, looking to the future except to draw thence...