{"id":80294,"date":"2020-09-23T12:12:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T09:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=80294"},"modified":"2020-09-23T12:12:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T09:12:40","slug":"psalm-quiz-what-building-bears-this-inscription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/psalm-quiz-what-building-bears-this-inscription\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalm Quiz: What Building Bears This Inscription"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"80294","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":38102,"related_cahpter":"575","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Psalm Quiz: What Building Bears This Inscription?","content":"<p>Answer: Harvard University&#8217;s Emerson Hall, home to the (very secular) Philosophy Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s ironic. Apparently, the university&#8217;s leadership at the time of the construction of the building (President Charles William Eliot, 1906), named for Ralph Waldo Emerson, wanted to give a sobering, faith-based message to the more humanist leaning philosophers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his baccalaureate address of 1942 (&#8220;What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful Of Him?&#8221;), President\u00a0James B. Conant said the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I may illustrate the struggle between the Spirit of the Renaissance and the Spirit of the Reformation by a famous Harvard story. It is usually told to illustrate that bygone age when university administration was an intensely personal concern of a college president. Emerson Hall was in process of construction. The design included an inscription on the north facade over the doorway leading to Sever and Robinson Halls. The Department of Philosophy had decided that this inscription should read, &#8220;Man is the measure of all things,&#8221; speaking in the Spirit of the Renaissance. But President Eliot quietly decided otherwise. When the professors returned from the summer vacation they found the building essentially complete, and cut into the stone were the words: &#8220;What is man that Thou art mindful of him?&#8221; Now this story may well be apocryphal, but I cherish it none the less. 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