Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...illustrated by familiar examples of many common and insiduous errors of language and expression. Trench's lecture is a more elaborate and careful inquiry into the rules of discourse and the relations we hold in society through the exercise of our conversational faculties - our intercourse with people, the treatment of another's opinions and feelings, the turns and subjects of conversation, "drawing a person out," questioning and criticising, - all these important interests are discussed in a serious and effective manner. Parts III. and IV. of the little manual embrace an extended review of the more common and objectionable errors...
...reports of the treatment of the Chinese students, which for some time have been going the rounds of the press, seem to us shocking, and serve to show how far behind the rest of the world China is in the matter of civilization. The following, clipped from the New Enterprise of Charlestown may be interesting to our readers who desire to know the fate of those poor students who were recalled by their government from this country, and torn away from the paths of learning and the refining influences of a higher civilization than their...
...Joaquin Miller has been moved to indignation by the treatment which Oscar Wilde has received from his audiences in Western New York. He has written the following to Mr. Wilde...
...ingenuous egotism in Mr. Wilde's claim of this sort that would be amusing if it were not pitiful. Oscar Wilde has as yet done no sure work or presented any original thought which gives him any just claim upon us. The implied comparison of case with the treatment accorded such poets as Keats by the public is not only silly, it is presumptuous. And although we believe there is a reaction setting in in public sentiment against such an extreme of ridicule as has previously been showered upon him, and however much one may feel disposed to share...
...necessity of physical training, and then explained in detail his system of physical examinations and measurements, by which he was able to prescribe special exercises for each individual, which would strengthen a man's physique in those points in which he was weak. Different persons needed different treatment, and in our gymnasium are machines of all kinds (principally of the doctor's invention) which are adapted for every physical detail. The doctor gave the weights and measurements of some of our notable athletes, and showed the substantial benefits of athletic training. This lecture was principally introductory, and will be followed...