Word: testamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After his trip to Armenia Lake will go to his home in Harverford, Pennsylvania, where he will edit a magazine with his wife. His special field, for which he is widely renowned, is Old Testament texts and Greek writings...
...world famous authority on old testament texts and Greek writings, Lake came to Harvard first in 1913. This spring he will go to Armenia on an archaeological expedition...
...work at once the oldest and the newest of books is the Hebrew Old Testament. Really the chronicle of the Jewish tribes from earliest recorded times right down to the Christian era, a chronicle which took those people through some of the most amazing adventures that you can read about in any literature, a chronicle occasionally incomplete--full of blind spots, times when the race seemed to be swallowed up like Jonah from the face of the earth--nevertheless this chronicle, this story, has had as much to do with shaping the course of world affairs for the last nineteen...
...Testament is not just a history book; it is a statement of philosophy, a piece of poetry, and the expression of a fundamental outlook on Man and the Unknown. But philosophy, poetry, and religion are clearer to some minds than to others; if they are to survive in our society, men must be found to explain them, to expound them, to give them life. At Harvard such a man has taken a Bible course, declining into dotage, inspired it with his own enthusiasm, chiselled it with his incisive mind, and made it one of the most popular and influential courses...
...furtherance of "something new" Poets Auden and MacNeice wind up their book by collaborating on a unique Last Will and Testament in which they tell their contemporaries what they think of them by means of appropriate bequests. To the Church of England they leave, among other things, "the Chief Scout's horn, a secondhand curate's font;" to bicycle, the and a English portable Public Schools, "mens sana qui mal y pense;" to Sir string;" to Robert square-headed Baden-Powell, pegs "a living piece in of the world's round holes, "our cheerfulness...