Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will give you more than your money's worth, for I am going to deliver two addresses instead of one, first speaking on total abstinence as it affects college men, and then on the political reforms necessary in our treatment of the liquor question. We ministers are fanatics on the subject of total abstinence because we see life in many forms, and are forced by our experience into this position. I never took a pledge but once. I had been urging a poor drunken fellow not to drink again for a year, showing him the misery which his habits brought...
...discuss the dominant ideas of Dumas's novels and plays, his types of women (the Preraphaelesque, the Bachante, and the Penelope), - some of which Mr. Fletcher thinks to be so bizarre that he says with Zola, "Where can Mr. Dumas have studied his women?" - and of his treatment of moral (and immoral) problems. He concludes with M. Bourget that Dumas fils is "A writer very little given to questions of everyday living, and that his work ought to be studied by the historian of French sensibilities in the nineteenth century very closely indeed...
...poetry of the number is of a high order. Mr. McCulloch's contribution, "Phaeton," is a rhymed tale of the familiar myth. The metre of the poem is admirably adapted to the treatment of this well known story, and, barring a few errors of accentuation, the whole shows poetical strength...
...Harvard Trio" and "Through the Register" are more conventional in their plots and treatment, the former appearing to be the best of the two in that it contains excellent delineations of three familiar types of Harvard character, although it is to be doubted whether the moral inculcated at the end would hold good in every case...
...Wilcox's story "McClane of the Harvards" shows much cleverness in its treatment of those two antagonistic elements of Harvard life,- athletic enthusiasm and cultivated indifference. It is the author's excellent delineation of these two phases of college life,- as exemplified by Phil McClane, the stalwart' Varity football player, and Mr. Percival Perrion, the well-spring of whose life is "Culture and Discriminating Appreciativeness," which makes this story one of the best of the year...