Word: treating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distributing money to the undergraduates should be united under one permanent official, is surely one to which no large objection can be raised, and for which many important arguments can be advanced. The chiefest of them has been adduced by Mr. Hindmarsh; a single office would be able to treat the problem of each individual more completely, to tell him more definitely than any office can tell him now what his prospects for assistance...
...shared, by high university officials is not inexplicable. With its vision beclouded by reverence for the course system, by the stirring arguments of those present whose sustenance depends upon that system, and by the timidly which abounds in an atmosphere of traditional conservatism, University Hall has seen fit to treat the tutorial system as altogether subordinate to the old order, to make it fill in the gaps, to reduce it to kind of an intellectual mustard plaster. Year after year, the president and the deans have obscured this subordination with fine phrases and high optimism. But concrete advances have been...
...trend of the times; originally a pleasant path to a course credit, they have stiffened their requirements, placed more emphasis on the really scientific features of their field, and are now as difficult as the run of courses in the college. This, coupled with the fact that the treat is on the government, has left the administration strangely blind to their anomalous position in the roster of courses taken for the degree...
...speech about a National Repertory Theatre she smilingly told her audience: "I have a great treat for you ladies this morning. I have brought along Ethel Barrymore." Hearty applause died abruptly as Actress Barrymore strode imperiously to the platform's edge. Her voice quivered with rage. "Miss Le Gallienne does you great honor to be here," she began. "I do you honor to be here. I don't see why we bother to speak to you at all. You have no appreciation. You don't know anything. You never have known anything. You never will know anything...
Whit Burnett and Martha Foley, I fear, have been more successful with the magazine than they have been with the anthology which contains only a few outstanding short stories. First, I shall touch briefly on the self-conscious authors who treat sex sensationally, and badly; into this category come Bruce Brown, Erskine Caldwell, James Stern, and George Albee. The last man mentioned describes pithily and dully the reactions of a seventeen-year-old boy when he is assured that he has contracted syphilis from a girl whom he loves. "Week-End," by Carlton Brown is an amusing description...