Word: treating
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...been contested for in a debate between two teams composed of three men each. This method has proved unsatisfactory, however. This year the subject will be some broad, general topic instead of a limited and definite proposition. Instead of being assigned a stated side, men will be allowed to treat any phase of the subject...
Under the new system, a broader topic will be chosen than was possible before, and men may treat it as they see fit. There will be no arbitrary allotment of affirmative and negative, no attempt at concerted action. This will leave greater room for individual effort, and no previous schooling in debating will be necessary. Definitions, statistics, and citations will be less in evidence, while general intelligence and persuasive power will be of greater value than the ability to amass facts and draw fine distinctions...
...Emerson F this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The topic of the lecture, which will be open to the public, is "A Statement of Modern Buddhist Doctrines in Western Terms." This was the subject of Dr. Bigelow's first lecture, but he was unable at that time to treat the subject with sufficient thoroughness...
...defeated the Spanish squadron, giving the United States control of 8,000,000 alien people. The islands are not part of the United States, yet the Supreme Court holds jurisdiction over them, and although they are under our flag, the natives are not American citizens. In one respect we treat them as foreigners--in our tariff relations. This commercial was greatly hinders the development of the islands. The Philippines are our only dependency with such a handicap...
...part that Harvard men take in Massachusetts political affairs is the subject which Robert Luce '82 has chosen to treat under the title "Harvard Men in the Massachusetts Legislature." He finds that over 100 Harvard men have served the State in the last ten sessions of the legislature and from them have come several of the best political leaders of the present. An article of historical value is "Cambridge and Harvard College in 1817," by Charles Warren '89. It is a description of Harvard University at the period when the winter store of wood was brought from "down east...