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...appreciated the unique position he held in the History Department at Harvard. The qualities by which he impressed the Freshmen in History 1 and the graduates in History 29 were not always identical, but they were always virile and arresting. In essence they sprang from his ability to interpret history in terms of human motives, a talent which many lecturers inadvertently bury in the leaves of ancient volumes...
...W7hen scripture became only literature. Literatus Lewisohn avers, "it was necessary for literature to become scripture." Modern literati are no mere craftsmen, do not play the beaux to pretty Belles Lettres. They must be poets "whom the thoughtful and instructed modern reader seeks out to experience for him. to interpret for him, to illuminate and to guide him, to face for him the inscrutable. . . ." With such vicarious help, common-or-garden men, in order to climb heavenward, need only keep their glasses polished and read the scriptures as they come.* In his impressions of the expressions of American literati, dead...
...game before many New England lacrosse officials, gathered to witness and interpret the first trials of the new rules which will go into effect this season, the University lacrosse team will face the Jayvee twelve on the field behind the Business School at 3 o'clock this afternoon...
...tries to interpret the character of Philip Barry through the iconography of the people and situations he has created, a marked spiritual conflict suggests itself. Richard Winslow of The Youngest (1924) ?written two years after Mr. Barry was turned out of Professor Baker's 47 Work-shop?and Johnny Case of Holiday (1928) are two Barry heroes with much in common: they hate the world of affairs, view big business with distrust. But another Richard, the composer who almost runs off with the well-to-do hero's wife in Paris Bound (1927), is moved to remark: "I used...
...interpret this poster," he observed, "one side caricatures Chinese figures. One of them is smoking a pipe, evidently opium, and is lying upon a shelf in the same room with other figures who are employing various insanitary methods of washing clothes. Mice are running around. It seems to me that the printing and pictured effigies on this sign constitute criminal libel . . . and it seems to me that the picture attempts to ridicule all Chinese laundrymen including the complaining witnesses in this case...