Word: interpretive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This cram, psychologists tell us, does aid students to pass a factual examination. But most of the facts are soon forgotten. Long-time retention suffers. The cram, too, helps little in courses in which a student must interpret theories. The moral, professors say, is "Be prepared"--all through the quarter...
...complete the canal. This means that the executive can on his own authority make any appropriations whatsoever, if he can get his hands on a small retaining fee. Jealous of his new money authority, he seems inclined to resent having to share it with Congress. It is hard to interpret otherwise his declaration that seed-bill loans made by him require no additional revenues, but loans made by Congress must be backed up by new taxes. As long as we have a lily-livered Senate and a foolish, and autocratic President neither the liberties of Congress nor of the American...
...Professor Bruce Hopper and his courses, Government 18 and 30, is due great credit. Modern international relations are without doubt the most vital, the most absorbing, and the most kaleidoscopic of the factors affecting us today; but to interpret them accurately, and to summarize briefly the vast material is a job requiring great skill, personal experience, and keen intelligence. The fact that many who took Government 30 last year are sitting in on it again is a tribute to Professor Hopper's easy, up-to-date, and always humorous presentation of Asiatic affairs...
...have set up new instruments of public power in the hands of the people's Government, which power is wholesome and appropriate, but in the hands of political puppets, of an economic autocracy, such power would provide shackles for the liberties of our people.' Now I interpret that to mean that 'if you are going to have an autocrat-take me! But be very careful about the other fellow...
Since The Last Puritan is complex, ironic, puzzling, there are likely to be as many interpretations of Santayana's long fable as there are readers of it. Although most of these readers may interpret Oliver's unwillingness to accept the world and its pleasures as evidence of some lack of physical passion, the author makes it clear that for Oliver puritanism did not mean chastity or priggishness. "It is a popular error," says he, ''to suppose that puritanism has anything to do with purity." Nor was it ''mere timidity or fanaticism or calculated hardness...