Word: interpretions
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...grounds for this neglect are, that the object of the study is the interpretation of Shakespeare, and that elocution has nothing to do with it As has already been pointed out, we are talking, not of elocution or dramatic reading, but simply of intelligent reading, and this certainly has to do with the interpretation of Shakespeare; for no one who conclusively proves by his reading of a passage that he does not understand it can still pretend that he is able to interpret it; whereas any one who reads the passage clearly, interprets it by doing...
SINCE so much has lately been said in regard to a return to the first motto, "Veritas," it may not be out of place to give the interpretation of the second motto, given by Dr. Hedge in his now famous address to the Alumni, on the subject of University Reform (Atlantic, Sept. 1866): "The secularization of the College," he says, "is no violation of its motto, Christo et Ecclesioe. For, as I interpret these sacred ideas, the cause of Christ and the Church is advanced by whatever liberalizes and enriches and enlarges the mind. All study, scientifically pursued...