Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Spirit of the Times is very much grieved over the treatment that the Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association has received at the hands of the National Amateur Athletic Association, and the Yale News takes the same text and adopts as its own the complaints which are put into its mouth by the Spirit...
...change and as far as I can learn, the only serious complaint is that the service in the dining room is not as good as it should be, that some of the waiters are careless and others incompetent. I must say that it seems to me very heroic treatment to decapitate the steward when a change of head waiter may cure the trouble, when indeed it looks very much as if such a change had already very considerably lessened the evil. The hall is so much better now than under the steward who held office when I first joined...
...regret that it should be necessary to again remind any seniors of the necessity of sitting for their class photographs. It is not fair treatment of the photograph committee nor of the other members of the class for men to delay their sittings until so late in the year. The work of the chairman of the photograph committee is irksome enough in any case, even when each member of the class does his part willingly; and when men shirk their share of the work and make it necessary for the chairman to continually remind them of their delinquency - a duty...
...THEM; Practical Hints for Readers and Students. By J. C. Van Dyke: New York. Fords, Howard & Hulburt." This books contains many suggestions in regard to reading which will be found especially valuable by college students and others who have to make constant use of books. The author's treatment of such topics as novel-reading, skipping, system in reading, note-books, memorizing, night-reading, exercise and choice of books is remarkably practical. The chapter on the use of the public library is perhaps the most useful of all in the book. Many of the author's suggestions are novel...
...longer articles, which consist of both poetry and prose, are decidedly superior, both as to subject and treatment, to the corresponding features of American college journals. No attempt seems to be made at humorous writing, unless, perchance, it be a bit of verse. The contributions belong distinctly to the class called "solid," and are on such subjects as "Want of Leaders in Oxford," "Democracy and Culture," "University Men and Local Government." There is every evidence that these articles are read with interest, for quite a number of them have called forth lengthy rejoinders...