Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Finally, did not William's treatment of the Church after the conquest show an independence of priestly influence from which it can fairly be inferred that Hildebrand no more made use of the ambition of the Norman to promote the interest of the Papacy than William made use of the ambition of the priest to promote his own interest...
...seems to me that there is a want which ought before long to be supplied everywhere, and especially here. I refer to the arrangement of a class of preliminary studies especially adapted to the preparation of the young men to take an efficient part in the treatment of difficult questions connected with the management of public affairs." For granted, what is so often urged, that to obtain place one must generally blunt all nice sensibility, indeed, must lose much of his spirit of independence, by sacrificing honest convictions to the demands of party; granted that the populace often prefer...
...usefulness, in training for which our places of education are wanting. The mere faculty of expressing one's thoughts with facility and grace is not uncommon among us; but behind and above all this there are certain conditions, indispensable to the making of the real orator, consisting, as the treatment of this subject by Cicero has admirably shown, in a general and detailed acquaintance with all departments of knowledge. To satisfy these conditions, by commencing the training here and marking out a distinct practical road for the student to follow afterward, should be a function of this University. At present...
...Groton's oration was ably written and well delivered. In his modest and graceful exordium he alluded to the long-courted obscurity of the society, now laid aside for the first time after eight years of successful existence. He then passed to his subject, "Genius," in the treatment of which he showed equal facility of expression and freshness of thought. Many of the touches in the latter part evidenced the presence of the subject of his oration...
...present four classes you will have half a dozen cliques and rings, the influence of which will make their members far more narrow-minded, bigoted, and snobbish than they can ever become while guided by the generous impulses of class friendship. But this is a subject worthy of abler treatment and a more extended notice, and I only mention it inasmuch as it concerns my neighbors; for the College thinks it very wrong for classmates to live together, and consequently I have here men of every class, description, taste, and habit, mingled together. I know of but one entry...