Word: treating
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...successful study, and punishes him with demerits for ill-conduct; ranks him by examinations, rewards him with prizes dependent on his marks, and sends him out with a certificate of excellence. The other patterns the freedom of the German universities (which do not correspond to our colleges), would treat the student as a man responsible only to himself, permits him to be present or absent at his choice, and otherwise regards him as a free and independent American citizen. The one argues that the student must be trained to enter the world through close supervision and with immediate motives...
Some of the men to whom the college points with pride began their career in the school, among others Presidents Leverett, Langdon, Everett and Eliot, and Professor Josiah P. Cook. Other distinguished alumni were Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Robert Treat Paine, while the present century has witnessed the graduation from the school of Charles Sumner, Robert C. Winthrop, Charles Francis Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson and hosts of others who have attained distinction, but whose names cannot be here given...
...Bain, of Kentucky, and Hon. John B. Finch, of Nebraska, the three foremost temperance speakers of today, are now stumping Massachuusetts in favor of "no license." An effort is making to have them speak in Sanders Theatre at some early date. If successful it will be a rare treat for the college and for Cambridge people. Mr. Finch is the most polished orator and closest platform reasoner of all the speakers now engaged in the temperance work, and will compare favorably with any elocutionist in the land. It is reported that a gentleman of influence has taken the matter...
...team, is that several players are not doing their duty. It is a shame, but nevertheless a fact, that some men will work harder and train more faithfully before the team is chosen and when there is free competition, than after they have secured their places. They treat it as an individual matter, where only their own interests are at stake. So long as they are able, even though in an indifferent condition of body, to maintain their superiority over rival aspirants, they are satisfied. With them it is a matter of comparison between their plaving and that...
Prof. Paine desires the announcement to be made that Music 3, for the coming year is not to be a technical course, and will not require a knowledge of the keys from those who elect it. It will aim to treat the history and literature of Music...