Word: treating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sophomore themes. From that time to this, Professor Hill has been steadily working to build up an English Department; and although obliged to give most of his strength to Composition, he has found time to conduct one or two courses in Literature. In these he professes not to treat exhaustively English Literature since Shakspere, but merely to guide students in an intelligent study of the lives and the writings of certain masters of the last two centuries. Everybody admits that more courses in English Literature are desirable; it is no secret that they are contemplated: but the recent growth...
...address by James Russell Lowell, a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes - what greater literary treat could be offered to any audience, even one more cultured than that which assembled yesterday in Sanders Theatre? What could be more fitting, too, than that at the birthday of festivities of the Alma Mater, the two most famous of her living sons should thus lend their aid in celebrating the natal day? We are at a loss when we attempt adequately to praise the address, because it seems to us that nothing ore appropriate could have been written, nothing worthier of the genius...
Theatricals are all the rage in Princeton this season. The Dramatic Association is hard at work rehearsing Garrick's "Country Girl," and if last year's successes can be taken as a criterion, we predict a treat for all. The club has excellent material and seems endowed with an unusual amount of perseverance and enthusiasm...
...ROBERT TREAT PAINE...
...overwhelming majority would vote for the college yard not becoming a nuisance in the midst of the town, if the question were put abstractly, who can doubt. It remains to be seen, however, whether individuals will back their abstract preferences, or let the question, "ought the faculty to treat undergraduates as boys or men?" be settled, for many years to come, by a few irresponsible larkers acting for their own personal amusement now. I must confess that the weak point of the Harvard character seems to me to be a lack of moral courage in the deeper affairs of life...