Word: interpretion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With tragic suddenness, all this is snatched away and we are left to wonder how it is that such a man be taken out of a world that needed him. The ways of death are hard to interpret, but two things we know and it is well to recall them. The work of a man's life is in its depth, not in its length; in its quality not in its quantity. He might have lived to build a railroad, to be a useful citizen or to have a happy home, but one thing we know, though it had been...
...classical learning was no mere accomplishment, a pleasing ornament for a man of letters, but an important branch of Anthropology, giving insight into the mental operations and intellectual and moral growth of ancient peoples. To him literature and monuments were records of life, and were to be interpreted by that and in turn themselves to interpret it. He said once, laughingly, that we called the Romans ancient, but when they were alive they thought themselves as modern as anybody there was. If he was discussing the etymology of words, he had no fine spun theories, but considered always...
Professor Dorpfeld will interpret Thucydides II. 15 on next Saturday morning, at 12 o'clock, in Harvard...
...Miss Interpret, W. H. Thomas...
Fred. W. Moore, graduate manager of Harvard athletics, has just returned from a conference with the Princeton baseball management on the question of eligibility rules. The only arrangement which he could make was that each college should make and interpret its own rules. Each captain will be obliged, in making up the personnel of his team, to send to the other captain a signed statement to the effect that, to his knowledge, his men are all eligible. Princeton also agreed to adopt Harvard's rule as to dropped men, provided her athletic advisors would agree to it. The Princeton rules...