Word: treating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subjects that many of our Western exchanges delight to treat of are sometimes truly formidable. A curious and interesting list might be compiled on these attempts at literary greatness. "Women in Literature," "Patriotism as a Virtue," or "The Saracens in Europe," are truly subjects that would do honor to a Bowdoin prize essayist, but must fill the reader of a college magazine with dismay...
...proposition to open Columbia to women is a rebuke to Harvard." - [Commercial Advertiser.] Has not the same proposition been made at Harvard? And will not Columbia treat this one the same way that Harvard did hers? Exactly where does the rebuke come...
...able to muster energy enough to make a single course and some few occasional lectures a success. It is true that in certain subjects voluntary lectures are always popular at Harvard. Thus Dr. Sargent's and Dr. James' courses always secure satisfactory audiences; perhaps for the reason that they treat of thoroughly practical and important subjects, and in this respect afford a certain relief to routine labor in more abstruse branches. The lectures of the Natural History Club also are always popular. But on the other hand, there has lately been a noticeable falling off in attendance at evening readings...
Many remarks have been made lately concerning the apparent change of tone in the Boston papers toward Harvard students. Last year they were wont to treat every little, thoughtless act with the utmost severity, as if it were premeditated, and were intended to shake the peace of the Commonwealth to its very foundation. Last year the freak of the freshmen at Oscar Wilde's lecture would have made the subject of editorials of the bitterest kind, denouncing not only the sixty "bold, bad men," but also the whole college. They now pass lightly over what last year would have been...
...attendance at the last symphony concert was larger than ever before, in spite of the midyears. We are glad that men are beginning to appreciate the musical treat furnished us at so cheap a rate, and we hope no one will miss the two concluding concerts of Feb. 8 and March...