Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accurate examination-paper, it is decidedly unfair to take absences into consideration in making up the marks of any elective. In addition, a professor lowers himself who attempts by threats to prevent a man from cutting. We trust that we shall have no further ground for complaint, as this treatment of students serves to put them once more on the footing of children...
...thus acquired many new ideas in relation to her husband's habits. I learned that he did not, as a rule, like Americans (thank Heaven! I am one of the exceptions); that he was very fond of his home and children, however, - which I still doubt, considering his heartless treatment of that child in the railway carriage; that he wore three clean shirts a week, but never changed his stockings oftener than once a fortnight; that he was a poet; that Queen Victoria had made him England's laureate; that he did not like to shave himself; that, however late...
...present, the 'Varsity row every day, rain or shine, and the Nine practise daily in the Gymnasium, and yet not a man takes enough interest to watch and give them an encouraging word. Last year after the race, members of the 'Varsity were heard to complain of this very treatment. Harvard will have to work very hard for success next year, and we hope that every man will consider it his duty, whenever it is possible, to encourage our men while practising by his presence...
...know that that part of the income of the College which is available for running expenses, and for salaries of tutors and professors in unendowed chairs, is smaller than it should be. It is this smallness of means which makes a liberal and liberal-minded treatment of professors almost an impossibility, and which has forced the government of the University to adopt what we have called the "Commercial Policy...
...Latin instructors, who, even at this remote point of time from the "Semis," has acknowledged that he has not yet begun to correct the examination-books, and does not know when he will begin, - implying that he is by no means troubled by the delay. Perhaps this unjust treatment might be endurable but for the fact that many of his men make their course in regard to second-year honors dependent, in great measure, upon the results of his examination. To them, every moment is precious, since the time that remains for their special work in classics is short...