Word: treating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...when the majority of teachers are elected once a year? Is it a profession when more than 33 per cent. are replaced every year? There are a few men and women who look upon it as a profession. The great majority of persons who teach, however, never intend to treat teaching as a profession. I say, therefore, that the institutions of higher education have some good reasons for not attempting to teach the philosophy of education. I thing, too, we may offer another apology for not having attempted to teach the history of higher education. It is the most terrible...
...true, however, that a Glee club trip is in any proper sense of the word an advertisement. Last year the benefit accrued, and was intended to accrue to the graduates rather than to the college or the members of the Glee club. Those to whom the treat was rarest were Harvard graduates who found it both pleasant and profitable to renew their associations with their Alma Mater, if but for a single evening. They are thereby entitled to recognition, if the Glee club are not; and it is as much on their account as on the account of the Glee...
...summaries of papers are all purely scientific; they treat of the verbs of saying in Plato, of open questions in English philology, of the separation of copper from arsenic by means of electricity, etc. Under the head of "Miscellaneous." articles of various kinds are to be found, notably the announcement of a series of lectures on Egypt to be delivered in Cambridge, Boston, New York and other cities by Miss A. B. Edwards, of London. The lectures will be on ancient as well as modern Egypt, and will treat of the discoveries made of recent years by the Egypt Exploration...
...audience which crowded Appleton Chapel to its fullest capacity yesterday afternoon had a rare musical treat. The Harvest Cantata, composed by Garrett, with words selected and written by Dr. Waller, was sung by the choirs of Appleton chapel and St. Paul's church, Boston. After a short service conducted by the Rev. F. G. Peabody, the organist introduced the Cantata with a magnificent rendering of the Hallelujah chorus from Beethoven's Mount of Olives. The recitative with which the cantata began was finely given by Richardson of the St. Paul's choir. The Chant of Young Men was especially good...
...purchase of the private library of Dr Leutch, of Germany, editor of the Philologue, has added 25,000 valuabe works to the library of the University of Pennsylvania. They treat mostly on the classics and sciences of Greece and Rome...