Word: treat
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...should be carefully arranged, and have several marked divisions. Such divisions encourage the reader, for, without counting the remaining pages, he can see that he is drawing nearer the end; and they also are extremely handy when you wish to serve up an extract as a theme or forensic. Treat your subject with all possible skill, and remember that when it proves rather unmanageable, a neat allusion to the learning and taste of the reader is of great service...
...exasperating when at last I have succeeded in obtaining from the library a long-coveted book, and am hurrying to my room to indulge in the rich treat in store, to meet a real Socrates, who buttonholes me through the Yard, persisting in lecturing me on the Antwerp galleries, which he had visited last vacation, when the criticisms of a Ruskin or a Reynolds might have been enjoyed instead...
...omit was always the signal for laughter and "wooding up"; in the second, there was never the least disorder of any kind when a slightly improper passage was read. I leave it to the instructors to find the interpretation, and will only say that, if they continue to treat us as school-boys, - or, rather, as school girls, - they must not be surprised at occasional boyish behavior. Prudery should be banished from the place to which it is least suited, - a university...
...deals with facts that every one, whatever his belief may be, should be acquainted with. Father Hall is a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford, and a member of the society of St. John the Evangelist. He has made a special study of Church History, and cannot fail to treat his subject in an interesting and masterly...
...their best sons that they send. Such sons will be more likely to do good than harm. I don't think that Cambridge ought to throw open her houses and say, 'Come in, all you students, and be one of the family'; but I do think she might treat these fellows as kindly as, for instance, you'd like to have your family treated if you should move into a strange place. Now when that polite young man brought my daughter's skate back to her, I 'd like to have had the girls a little more friendly...