Word: treat
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...CHILD, in his lecture on Chaucer at the Lowell Institute last Wednesday evening, spoke of the author's "Troilus and Cressida" and of the "House of Fame." On next Saturday he will treat of the "Legend of Good Women...
...effete and absurd; yet each class will knock its knees before this antediluvian shrine until the uselessness of the system has been demonstrated again and again. Really the men whose class lives would be most apt to be looked up are the very men who treat the Class Secretary to three lines, or return the immaculate sheets free from hieroglyphics but somewhat the victims of misplaced confidence. If the present graduating class should give up the old plan and adopt one similar to that proposed, its class-book might contain considerable valuable data, and not be a treasury of trash...
...look like bindings took a step in the right direction. His room looked well, at any rate. At the same time expensive bindings are not the thing. They are well enough on drawing-room tables, but, far from helping you to enjoy a book, they make you afraid to treat it familiarly. And books which look as if you never read them are almost as bad as no books at all. It is a good plan, by the way, to keep one or two volumes on various subjects lying carelessly on your table. As for the choice of books...
...have one more bit of negative advice for you, and then I will end my letter with a few words of worldly wisdom about human nature and the way in which you ought to treat your fellow-beings. The truth is, if you will pardon a vile pun on that last sentence, that you ought not to treat them...
...altogether; while the other half sponged on him, as a matter of course; and the poor little man went through college spending half as much again as anybody else, and getting nothing in return for it but the contempt of everybody that saw him. So don't treat, and don't be treated. It don't pay to pay, for you will be called a toady; it don't pay to be paid for, for you will be called a sponge...