Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some time, and who were lately recalled home, write that the reports concerning the imprisonment of the recalled students are true. The boys are placed in confinement at Shanghai and so ill-treated as to excite the indignation of resident foreigners and missionaries. The primary cause of this treatment was the false reports of the Chinese officials in this country, which were aggravated by the avarice of subordinate officials at Shanghai, who sought their own personal gain at the boys' expense, and in one case ran off with their money. The boys are homesick for America. Their relatives taunt them...
...Nation pays the following high compliment to a Harvard professor: "Prof. Paine has written a considerable number of works for the concert stage, among them an oratorio, a mass, two symphonies and a concert overture; but none of these, in our opinion, equal in originality of conception and scholarly treatment his music to Sophocles' tragedy, which to our taste is the most finished specimen of musical workmanship produced in this country. . . Prof. Paine's music is his own. It has individuality of style, and his themes impress themselves on the memory at once, and gain a beauty by repeated hearing...
...mass meeting of Jews was held in Liverpool last evening. Resolutions condemning the treatment of Jews in Russia were passed...
...been given an inkling that something was in the wind; therefore he waited until they made their appearance. He was not at all disconcerted by their presence, but was really amused, and in his introduction he turned his quick Irish wit against them, his playful, good-humored treatment of the affair gaining him the good-will of the audience at once. To the credit of the lads, they sat quietly and attentively through the evening." The Advertiser coincided with the Herald and said: "The tedium of the long wait was pleasantly relieved by a procession of Harvard students, sixty...
...might be consolidated with existing courses with advantage, one three-hour course being substituted for two of a less number of recitations. And we are glad to know that both these plans are now being followed by some instructors. The most important of the electives not susceptible of such treatment are the honor courses in Greek and Latin Composition. And we fail to see why these could not be connected with the parallel courses in translation with a twofold advantage in both decreasing the amount of work and increasing the results. After all these have been considered, there still remain...